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Open education @ Warrington School

The Warrington Way

Empowering our community of parents, teachers and pupils through open education.

Warrington School's Open Education Initiative - aims for:

Transparency - hoping that our ideas will be copied, our mistakes avoided and advice freely offered for our continued improvement
A belief that everything we do should be open
Actively sharing the things that we and our colleagues create
Working collaboratively with others who share our goals
Continual learning and improving
A school that is thinking globally

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Featured project

Exploration ICEBLOCK

Warrington School's Trisha Korth is heading south to the land of penguins and icebergs as part of a team of NIWA scientists
Trisha will be assisting the scientists in gathering information about life under the sea ice
We are excited to be joining her on this amazing journey

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Creative Commons, Copyleft and GPL

Warrington School believes in using materials, resources and ideas that are open. We prefer not to pay for copyright licences and we are committed to:

Adhering to permissible educational use of all rights reserved materials under the principles of fair dealing
Using materials which meet the requirements of the free cultural works definition namely Creative Commons Attribution, Copyleft license equivalents and the GPL

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Next steps

Using Enviroschools' Kit for themes within school programmes
Check up on draft charter consultation stage
Board jobs and policies
Policy review cycle
BOT CC-BY or CC-BY-SA policy?
Assessment checklists on Wiki
Community consultation on the proposed school entrance way

The Warrington Way - Consultation the whole way

Next steps Archive

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Calendar

Warrington School Calendar

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News and events

Puketapu Radio Open Source Outpost Idea

Warrington Board of Trustee supports this application

To use the skills and technical know-how from Puketapu Radio to set-up an Open Source Radio Station outpost based at Warrington School
Have this available for the Blueskin Community to use for local programmes
Pay for running costs of power and broadband
With provisos that:
- The aerial poses no threat to health or environment
- That there is significant interest from the wider Blueskin community to install and run it
- Will the School's Broadband connection cope with the additional demand
- To be reviewed yearly

Wawa Challenge and 3 Peaks Sand Sculpture Challenge

Triathlon and Beach Art and Technology Day on Warrington Beach
Term 1 2010 at a very low morning tide

Artist/s in residence

Use a local artist to skilfully repaint our scruffy wooden furniture and tired, multi-coloured classrooms
Invite a further local artist to submit a large vision map proposal that:

Covers local school features
Our wider Warrington community features
The Blueskin Bay features that could be used as a school mihi
Shares our Warrington Well-being Way of
- Envirethical concerns - planet and people
incorporates ideas suggested by the school and its wider community