Gisborne Intermediate
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| Gisborne Intermediate School | |
| Motto | Hold your head high and walk with pride |
| Type | State Coed Intermediate |
| Year established | {{{established}}} |
| Address | Roebuck Road, Gisborne |
| Coordinates | |
| Principal | Mr Don Niven |
| School roll | 559 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is highest) | 4 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 2566 |
| Website | http://www.gisint.co.nz/ |
Gisborne Intermediate School is a co-ed intermediate school in Gisborne, New Zealand. They teach Year 7 & 8 children.
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[edit] School organization
Gisborne Intermediate School is divided into four education teams. They each have their own individual colour and are named after local Gisborne rivers. The teams are: Taruheru (Green), Waipoa (Red), Waimata (Yellow) and Turanganui (Blue). These teams each have their own team leader. GisInt also use these teams at school events such as their athletics, swimming sports, cross country etc. Each team gets rewarded a certain amount of points for participating, place getting and good behavior.
[edit] Digitally Enhanced Classrooms
Gisborne Intermediate School is leading the way, in the Gisborne Region with digital technology in classrooms. In 2007 Gisborne Intermediate opened two 'Digitally Enhanced Classrooms', one year 7 and one year 8 class. The classrooms are taught by two teachers passionate about Digital technology and teaching they are: Mrs Andrea Niven (Room 4, Year 7) and Mr Glen Udall (Room 5, Year 8). The two classrooms are digitally enhanced as they are armed with the very latest digital equipment such as digital microscopes, digital still and video cameras, a large projector and LCD screen etc. A typical digital lesson in either of these classes may go a little bit like this: Briefing on their projector, Students go off into core groups and do their own activities relating to what subject they are doing such as, research on the internet for Topic Study, publishing work for writing, working with the teacher for maths or reading, Creating web pages or PowerPoint presentations on their current topic etc. The classes have not completely removed the need for pen and paper and they purposely have less computers than students to encourage sharing.
[edit] Friday ConnEctEd Programme
GisInt has developed a unique programme called 'ConnEctEd'. This 'ConnEctEd' programme takes place every Friday and lets all GisInt students take part in activities that they may not have tried before. There are music classes at hand for students to learn an instrument such as learning the keyboard or guitar. There are also clusters of students developing their skills in areas that they may already be good at.
[edit] School Curriculum
A quote from GisInts website:
The curriculum at Gisborne Intermediate is designed to educate the whole student and cater for the intellectual, social, physical and creative aspects of emerging adolescents. The curriculum is based on the National Curriculum which includes: Language and Languages, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Social Studies, The Arts, Health and Physical education, Essential Skills, Values and Attitudes. With the exception of The Arts and Technology all curriculum is taught by a home room teacher.
All GisInt students learn in single year level classes.
Students complete the basic study of English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Health and Physical Education with their class Teacher. Music, Art and Technology programmes are further developed through specialisation.
All classrooms (except for the digitally enhanced classrooms) will visit the ICT suite at least once a week, to research or publish work. Classrooms also are equipped with networked computers to research and publish. The school network has got a filter so students cant go into any sites not to do with school work or have bad content on them.
All pupils have the opportunity to learn a foreign language as part of the Friday ConnEctEd programme.
