Wai Ako

Date: 31/8/17

Staff PD: Wai Ako - Learning Songs, PD with Roimata Smail

Everyone has trouble with pronunciation of Te Reo Maori - fear of getting it wrong is what holds a lot of people / teachers back.

Resource created to help teachers teach children and get words right.

You can’t learn Te Reo  just by learning individual words - red, white, dog etc.

Songs to teach different aspect of Te Reo.

Te Reo Maori Curriculum has 8 levels to be taught at Years 1-13.  Two levels to be taught at primary school.

Would need to learn about 6 songs a year to cover the curriculum over the course of primary school, which works out about 1 ½ songs a term.

To incorporate it into your classroom, try adding the Ata Marie song and using the greetings at roll time.

Website:  Waiako.com

Contains the songs, notes for teachers, links to MoE lesson plans, how to incorporate it into your classroom routine, how to review learning and peer assessment.

How can the whole school and community support the learning of Te Reo?  You may find there are people in the community who are able to support you in school.

Staff meeting Tuesday 16/05/17

Maths Testing

Testing needs to be ongoing - as you teach a unit of work with a group you can test that module and add that information on to Edge

- I have tested 2 modules but I have not put them onto edge - need to do more testing. This links well to the work that I have been doing with Susan with the groups

- some modules will not be done until later in the year when we do some of the other maths areas


website with some help on how to take the test and what each level looks like

http://www2.nzmaths.co.nz/Numeracy/ONPD/Intro/01.aspx

I also found this one which makes it easy to find activities for stages 1-4 
https://nzmaths.co.nz/number-knowledge-lessons

I really like this one as I think the activities are set out really easily - I just think I need to go back now and do more testing so that I can see where more of the gaps are


Reading Testing

Watched PM testing video on a level 11. The sequence of this test was different to what I have been doing - useful training before next week.

I have been doing too much of a read through giving them information about the text. Whereas in the video they were only looking at the cover and talking it through. Then the student is to read the book through to themselves and retell the story - I have not been doing this stage so it is something that I have learnt. We talked a lot about what to record of their retell and I like the idea of taking some notes for each one instead of writing down every word. Then they read you the story.

As with most of these things we all saw the way the teacher was doing the running record differently

But it has made me see that i need to change a few things in the way I am taking the test so that I am consistent with the rest of the team.

Talk Moves - video

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/student-participation-strategy

love the revising idea - permission to change your mind. When you are confronted with new information you should change your thinking

Also love the I'm thinking the same as you symbol that the class were doing to eachother


This one has the turn and talk added in and I really like that as an added dimention

Team meeting minutes

15th February

Present: Susan, Aubrey, Rosanne, Amy, Melissa

Absent:

Room: 13

Health and Safety:

Agenda:

• School assembly certificates -same is last year, teacher will call out what their children will be getting a certificate for
• Eg: Wendy says “Oliver and Evie from room 13” and teacher stands and reads what the students got the certificate for
• Do we want to have a Team assembly fortnightly? Introduce new children, give out certificates, singing etc.
• Fridays before lunch fortnightly in room 13 12:15-12:30 (even weeks starting week 4)
• Class description-a copy in the yellow folder
• JAM testing should be done throughout the year
• Susan will come to rm 9 and 11 to help facilitate
• Can do during CRT
• Reading data-just reminder data in Edge by the end of this month
• Glenys will instruct once edge has been set up to put data in
• Not an expectation to running record for every child, every month.
• Test children you think are concern or ready to move levels
• Birthday reports

                      -Wendy has marked where the children’s reports are due throughout the year. Try to get General comments done during the term holidays before they are due

• Tiritiri Team blog-all team notices and learning can be put up on this site
• Wa Kitea - Rosanne suggest Mon-Wednesday only as struggling to fit Maths in with PMP and swimming etc in the afternoons
• We will try Wa Kitea 9-10am (Monday -Thursday) and use 10-10:30 for phonics or handwriting or a maths group until swimming has finished (will review this after swimming)  
• Teachers, children and parents are seeing the positives of having Wa kitea. We are hoping once the children become more familiar with the programme, it will run smoothly
• Literacy groups for Susan to take on Fridays  1.35-2.30 -three children each from Room 9 and 11 (might need to move this to the mornings as children are too tired in the afternoons)  

Group 1  (1.35-2pm) lower end

Room 9	Room 11
Danny Lilly Paige	John Luke Finley

Group 2 ( 2.05-2.30pm) high flyers

Room 9	Room 11
Zachary Maia Jaime	Lydia Corey Denham

• Long Bay beach Trip (playground area)  
• The leaving time has been changed to 10.30am to cater for the school visits
• Susan will do a letter home to explain for the change of time and upload it to the team blog
• Add adults to sand activities ratio 1:3 (2 activities)
• Trip letter
• Parent helpers confirmation
• Reminder
• Possible activities (please add to the list for discussion)

• Sand castles
• Scatter ball
• Shell pictures
• Treasure hunt
• Bubbles
• Parachute??

Timetable for the day

10.30am	Leave school	Parent helpers
10:45	Morning tea	Room 9 Sarah Lorigan (Olivia) Amanda Cook (Finlay) Gina Park (Danny) Ange Taft (Caleb) Room 14 Bee (Eli) Kelly (Sophia) Kaye (Mikayla) Mayuki(Ryoga)
11.00	Sandcastles/shells In class groups all on beach-cone the area
12:00	Parachute(Amy) Sack Races (Aubrey) Ball games (Rosanne)
12.30/12:45	Lunch
1:00	Playground
1:45	Roll Call
2pm	Leave beach

• Staff picnic 24th Feb-between site 4 and 5                       

Message from the leadership team:

• Learner powers  RRICC
• Strategic plan
• Organisation-Responsibilities

Professional development:

• Matific training with Inba

Any other business:

Next meeting:

• When need to next week to discuss Long Bay Beach trip otherwise 1 March 2017