#CEM15 Guest Post – Explore The World With Mystery Skype

This post was written for the Christchurch Connected Educators blog as part of Connected Educators Month of October 2015. You can read the original post here. Mystery Skype is a fun activity being played by classrooms all over the world and presents … Continue reading

Mystery Skype With Russia Extends Students’ Borders

 Today the Year 6 students at St Andrew’s College had a unique experience, engaging in a game of Mystery Skype with students from a school in the very remote location of Sakhalin Island International School, off the east coast of Russia … Continue reading

Guest Post: Year 6 Mystery Skype With Alabama School

This post was written by a student in Year 6SD after a Mystery Skype session in Term 4. On November 21st 6SD was involved in a mystery skype with another Year 6 class. As soon as they spoke we knew … Continue reading

Guest Post: Yr8 Mystery Skype

This post was guest written by Noah, Harry and Angus from Year 8C Last Thursday, 8C was part of a ‘Mystery Skype’ with another unknown school in the world. We didn’t know what to expect because we had never experienced this … Continue reading

Forging Global Connections – Mystery Skype to Singapore

On Friday 23rd May Yr3 students engaged in an eLearning first for St Andrew’s College – a Mystery Skype! Mrs Jane Egden agreed at short notice from me to help out a request I’d seen on Twitter from Mr Craig Kemp, a … Continue reading

Technology & Skype Connects Students With Experts In Religious Education

As a Presbyterian College, all students at St Andrew’s attend weekly Religious Education classes. At Year 9, the course provides an overview of the Christian narrative with a focus on the life and death of Jesus. In Term 3 this … Continue reading

Culture Connecting Classrooms: Kapa Haka Via Skype

On Friday last week our two Year 4 classes in the Preparatory school engaged in their first ever Mystery Skype, something other classes have done before with schools in Singapore and Australia. For those unsure of what a Mystery Skype … Continue reading

Suspect: The Murder Mystery Musical

UPDATE: This story profiled on TVNZ’s Seven Sharp on Friday 24th October and can be seen here. The buzz around St Andrew’s College lately has all been focused on the annual Middle School Production, largely for the fact it has been … Continue reading

Keen Young Scientists Collaborate with “Nano Girl” Via Skype

Collaboration. There is that word again – it’s proving to be a recurrent theme running through some of the recent blog posts I’ve written and this post epitomises the value of collaboration amongst teachers and the wider education sector. Ten staff … Continue reading

#CEM16 Guest Post – Connecting Educators Through TeachMeets

This post was written for the Christchurch Connected Educators blog as part of Connected Educators Month of October 2016. You can read the original post here. A similar post was written for #CEM15 about Mystery Skype which you can read here. … Continue reading