Wow! There is so much content on this website and I love it! It is easy to see how many people are contributing to the various blogs connected to this site and it is very impressive. I think having all the students having their own blogs connected to the school's blog give them a sense of ownership and pride in their school.
I love that there are so many videos and they are made by students and teachers alike and the fact that the first video is about the World Cup. This is not necessarily academic (though I'm sure many wonderful teachers found ways to make it academic) but rather something fun for the kids to focus on and for the community to see.
The student work is very well done and creating these videos cannot be easy work, but will benefit them hugely in the future. I also love that on the student's personal blogs they are setting goals for themselves and putting those goals out there for the world to see, which I think can be very motivating. When other people know what you are working towards, you might work just that much harder to accomplish that goal, and you can get more help when others know what you are trying to do.
The links for parents are wonderful as well. They show what types of work the students will be seeing in their year as well as what they might be expected to produce. They are easy to locate and well labeled.
I love that every aspect of the school has their own blog page from the library to sports teams to individual students. It is clear how much pride every students and faculty member takes in this school.
I plan to attempt a blog starting with just out ATP (gifted) students this school year and I can only hope that they are as enthusiastic as the crew at Russell Street clearly is and that it can someday build to include more and more classrooms, teachers and other aspects of the school!
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