Last Monday was the first of our school visits in Australia where we were hosted by APHS. I took the photo below from the second story balcony.

We went back after visiting here in 2006 and to be honest we stole their great idea of school owned laptops. It is nice to see the contrast between the Australia and NZ education systems and Lynne, the principal at APHS certainly gave us the grand tour, in fact we went back on the Tuesday to have a look at their new literacy programme as this is something we will be looking at Implementing in 2008 but more on that in the next post. We even got to show off the wiimote boards which was to be the only time in Australia that anyone was interested. I guess that when all your students have laptops the need for teacher directed learning is somewhat lessened.