Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Term 1, 2019

This term we have had a real focus on Learn, Create, Share throughout the school.  Our partnership with Manaiakalani is in the second year and we are joined by 10 other schools in our cluster.

Staff have been taking part in professional development to improve their digital technology skills.  I am impressed that they are all "learners" modelling and sharing the new learning with each other.  It is also great to be able to walk alongside our students in this journey.

The focus for our teaching and learning is on:
- critical thinking
- task design
- flexible grouping

This means that we are deliberately planning to enable students to think at a deep level.  Tasks are being designed to allow for them to link and transfer their thinking to global issues and learning.  We continue with our mixed ability grouping and deliberately plan to target learning that is required.

As a school we are also working on the "soft skills"  - collaboration, creativity,
communication and critical thinking.

The senior syndicate recently shared this at our hui - check it out
Senior Syndicate Hui

We had some great fun while whanau took part in the mahi tahi sessions!

Looking forward to continued great learning in term 2!