Esports comp - Halo Infinite Armageddon

 Papakura Esports for Halo Infinite 

During the morning and lunch breaks, students have played Halo Infinite over the past several weeks. Benjamin Foster, Cole Devenie, Troy Phillips, and Wairua Moon looked forward to taking part in this multiplayer competition on the 11th of June 2022.  The opportunity for students to form a team of four and register for the event was led by the students through their own doing and getting to the event and back. The team have shown some amazing teamwork skills, communication and determination to have a go. It was also the first time they have attended any Armageddon Esports comp in person. This showed students were displaying the core values of Papakura High School, Te Reo Matatini (Communication) and Mana Motuhake (Student Agency). 

The shoutcasters (commentary host) pointed out that these opportunities never existed when they weres at school thus no computers were not fast enough to support esports game based learning! We have been very fortunate to have four esport machines solely for students to use. Many opportunities in the esport industry can lead to a career pathway. The esports club runs every Wednesday after school and practice can be arranged during break times. 

What next? The students have decided that the next comp will be an inter-school Rocket League comp happening soon.  

KHE (Kura High Esports) came 12th place out of 35. This is pretty amazing since it was their first time entering the Halo Infinite Armageddon comp!

https://www.armageddonexpo.com/News/WINTERGEDDON-IS-COMING/ 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi - a Visual History

Dr Haare Williams (MNZM) - Distinguished artist, poet, broadcaster and kaumātua - bio

Rereokeroa Shaw - Pioneering Māori-medium educator and lecturer - bio

-Auckland University - lecturer

-Te Tiriti o Waitangi for Kaiako part 1 - Rereokeroa Shaw

Ngā Moemoea - dreams and aspirations for rangatahi - Dr Haare Williams

implications for teaching.

Papakura High School Pedagogy

Papakura Pedagogy Site

Esports - Rocket Masters Competition Invercargill

 Rocket Masters Competition Invercargill

Esports - Rocket Masters

Over the weekend between 6-8th May 2022, a team of 9 students accompanied by Satchet Singh and Mr Bolton-Hampton took part in an esports tournament in Invercargill.

Papakura High School was the only team competing at the tournament from the North Island. Our students did really well and were fantastic ambassadors for the school, with two of the three teams placing in the top 10 (meaning they won prize money).

Some of the teams have been training together since at least the start of the year and our students have been training for three weeks, so an awesome achievement.

Charlotte Eastham, the only girl on our team, performed so well that she has been earmarked to potentially compete at the next Commonwealth Games as esports will feature there. Very well done to all the participants: Charlotte Eastham, Brody Gwatkin, Kingston Hancy, George Mackey, Wairua Moon, Tito Paseka, Jay Patel, Shacon Rehu and Dylan Toms and huge thanks to Mr Singh and Mr Bolton-Hampton for giving our students the opportunity to participate in this event.

Link to all the photos of the event here.

RAD - Recycle a Device project

 Recycle a Device Project

Drone Legends Project

Drones in the classroom

CATE (Careers and Transition Association NZ)

Year 11 students have been learning the skills of Aviation by learning piloting skills in the classroom. Students learned how to fly and navigate a drone and the role of the Pilot, Observer, and Safety Officer. This is all part of the global use of Drone surveillance and how Drones can be used to solve problems today, such as investigating bush fires and surveying recent floods in Australia. 

This is a 10 Credit NCEA Level 1 Achievement standard project. Students will also create a website to show their evidence of Drone surveillance. 

Peer feedback from staff

Peer feedback from staff at Papakura High School January 2022

The positive attributes of me as a person, pedagogy, and passion for Digital Technology projects 

Cross Curricular & STEAM

Esports 

cross-curricular 

PLD 15th Feb slides

PLD of developing cross-curricular projects instead of working as separate entities we should collaborate with other subject others. We do need to involve students in what they would like to do as a project so that we can start collecting some student voice. All stakeholders need to be included in this process such as whanau. 

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