Our school is taking part in a nationwide survey through CensusAtSchool NZ.
CensusAtSchool is a biennial online census involving students from Years 5 through to 13.
It is part of an international project where some questions are in common with other countries to provide comparisons between countries, while tailoring the remainder of the questionnaire to reflect the interests of New Zealand children. Other countries participating are Australia, Japan, South Africa, UK, Ireland, USA, Korea and Canada.
Schools take part voluntarily once teachers have registered to get a code for their class. Students complete the survey during lesson time, and then submit their data online to contribute to an international database. CensusAtSchool does not gain any information that would in any way identify any student‟s response so it is an anonymous survey.
A census of this type provides teachers with a collection of real, relevant student data which is supported by activities for each year level in which students can ask investigative questions and explore the data. Results and sample data are made available to teachers once the „census‟ is complete. It provides an opportunity for students to use ICT in a positive and interesting manner.
In the last census, we had 33000 NZ students participate!
Visit www.censusatschool.org.nz to learn more about our census.