TALKING POINTS:  Over the Back Fence Project                            ROSMINI COLLEGE

• Contact              Geoff. Wood gwood@rosmini.school.nz

• 1^st Nest                Year 12 and 13 Health and Life Skills (1 period per week)—200 plus 16-18 years

                                    Year 12 students may receive 5 NCEA credits)

• 2^nd Nest               Y7 and 8 students working collaboratively in groups

• Concepts            + Older students teaching younger students – promote health literacy

                                    + Connect, collaborate and think!!!   + SERVICE-LEARNING

                                    + Promote understanding and engagement across NZ and the Globe

• Tools                    Older students face to face in/out classroom or by video link

                                    Younger students work in a group Wiki page with video links/share

• History                Prior to 2011

                                    + InterPacific Symposium (2005 -?) linking Rosmini students with university

students at Washington State University (WSU) and others up to 6 US sites,

and Massey (Auckland/Wellington)-share research project outcomes.

                                    + InterPacific Forum (2010 to 13) www.interpacificforum.org   -- students posted

                                                      their abstracts and exchanged ideas.

                                    >>>Massey University Students Symposium (2003 to 2010) annual (North Shore)

                                    >>>Replicated in Singapore (Raffles Institute) student visits and on-line

                                    >>>International Students Symposium at Raffles > Scott’s (Sydney) > Montgomery-

Bell (Tennessee) > Doon (India) -- share research project outcomes.

                                    + Rosmini students leading primary students (from Over the Back Fence) for weekly

physical fitness and skill lessons (2007 – 1 classroom, now 8)

2011 (Sept)

+ Several video lessons trialled (Over the Back Fence to St. Joseph School) health topics

2012

+ Grew to 3 classes (Matapu, St Mary’s-Mosgiel, Half Moon Bay)

2013

+ Grew to 25 classes, including 2 classes in Australia, Fiji, USA and Cook Islands

>>>Initiated junior project work (Environmental Health) with classrooms in

CI, Fiji, Australia and Finland

2014

+ Currently 38 classrooms, expanding to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh

• Replication in USA-Coppell High School, Dallas (Health without Borders)

• Replication in India-Rayat International School, Punjab—started

                                    mentored by two Rosmini Y13 students  

• TKU – two groups of Rosmini students (6 Y12’s and 3 Y13’s) are working

with Cook Island (Y8 to 11) students living on 3 Northern CI’s

                                                      • Junior Project -- 1. FINZ (Environmental Health) Finland, India, NZ and US

2. Safe Journey’s (Transportation Safety) about 300 students across

                                                      7 countries—Year 8’s mentoring one of 36 work groups

• Activities:          Teaching-Mentoring-Collaborating-Sharing Research

+ 200+ Yr. 12-13 students teaching weekly physical activity lessons and/or video

lessons reaching – total involvement is @ 950 students                

                                    + Nine students mentoring @ 30 CI Y8-11 students

                  + 230 Y7-8s working on collaborative projects @ 400 students

• Vision:                 OtBF – Replicable, global, sustained, extend beyond the high school years (Service)

• Partnerships:  Virtual Learning Network -- Primary; Virtual Learning Professional Development (mentor)