Aokautere

= Aokautere School =

Website: www.aokautereschool.com
=**Milestone Goals** = []

=Milestone Two Evidence =

**Goal: Identifying staff professional learning needs**
14th June, 2010

Schoolmaster - assessment entry, mid-term reports

__Evidence__

All staff have entered assessment data for Term Two. These include running record results and basic facts results.

Ainsley has been upskilled by Penny and Maria in how to input data.

All staff have completed Term Two written reports using School Master. This is inline with the NZC and comments and student results reflect National Standard requirements. Ainsley has been upskilled by Penny in how to complete the reports using School Master.

Maria has looked into adding a National Standard which includes OTJ's. After discussions with Val these will be included in the end of year reports.

Maria has updated the School Master programme and removed glitches caused by the new update.

16/06/2010

Staff Meeting Rundown

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8.09.2010

We use School Master for our data entry and assessment. Val and Maria spent time during their management meeting so that Val could learn to access assessment data independently. Val was upskilled in how to bring up a report on students literacy and numeracy levels. She was able to customise her assessment searches using gender and ethnicity. Val was also able to compare student's results from the beginning of the year to now.



20.10.2010

At our staff meeting this week we reflected on our first year in the ICT PD Cluster. We did a P.M.I. to show our thinking. Our P.M.I. has shown this to be a worthwhile endeavour for us as teachers but more importantly for our students.



22.10.10

As a staff we completed a review of our the Goals for the Mantar Cluster ICT PD. We worked through this, reflecting on where we started at the beginning of the year. We have a clear vision for 2011 and this will be the focus of our planning a target that focuses on Inquiry and how it supports areas such as 'transliteracy'.



**Goal: Engagement with the community**
In this week's newsletter I have focused on cybersafety, school reports and Inquiry Learning. I have tried to draw a comparison between teaching 'stranger danger' and digital cybersafety. I have also invited parents to post comments on Room 6's wallwisher to help with an inquiry question. School reports are coming up and I have given the families a heads up of how we have arrived at our levels of achievement. media type="custom" key="6392179"

Goal: Reporting to the board

Val has informed the B.O.T. of our progress in the ICT PD Cluster with giving a comprehension rundown of the teacher only day.



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Goal: **ICT use for learning and teaching**
18.6.2010 Jane & Penny attended a digital photography course with Andrew Jamieson at Lytton Street School. This is what they learnt!

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23.09.2010

Jane gathered photos of the 'Crying Baby Ceremony' and then put them on a Powerpoint. Using a data projector Jane and the class discussed their thoughts and Jane wrote them straight into the speech bubbles. Check out the link below:

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1.11.2010

TeKids has been a valuable component of our ICT thrust. Our four students from Years 3-5 have really taken on board the learning that they undertake every few weeks. It is also an upskilling time for the lead teachers where we also learn from each other. In Week 2 of Term 4 our Tekids attended their workshop and learnt about voicethreading and storystarter. They write their notes into a special book and they share these with the teachers and peers.

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When the TeKids come back to school their teacher's give them the opportunity to teach their peers. This is usually done in a block of time given over to ICT.

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1.11.2010

Our thinking walls are an important part of our classrooms. They go hand in hand with our blog sites. We use the walls to display our thinking, ideas, success criteria and anything we thing is relevant to what we are doing with our learning. These walls are also a part of our inquiry process.



1.11.2010

In Room 6 we have reached out across the ditch to Australia to my old teaching partner. Together we are collaborating on our ICT project (she is also lead teacher for ICT at her school). We each have sent other a kiwi and kangaroo and these appear on our blogs for us to learn more about each other's country. The students of 2C at Yugumbir are looking at kiwis whilst the students of Aokautere are taking "Kanga" and "Roo" to Pet and Craft Day as well as them helping out around the school.

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You can see "Kevin the Kiwi" on 2C's blog site - he is really getting around!

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**Goal:** **Students learning with ICT"**
25.06.2010

As a staff we plan collaboratively in what we term as the 'planning bubble'. This bubble breaks down all areas of curriculum and guides all of our classroom planning. We have included a section on ICT and this has been integrated with our upcoming unit on 'Festivals & Cultures'. The bubbles reflects the emergence of web2 tools in our daily learning with choice for students in the areas of inquiry. 3.08.2010 Room 2 students have taken ownership of their blog site. From the early days when Ainsley showed them the way in how to use this tool to share their ideas and thoughts it has grown into a living document. This is definitely the student's of Room 2's blog.

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7.09.10

Four students have been attending the cluster 'Tekids'. These students are from years 3-5. They are enjoying participating in the workshops and coming bck to school and sharing their new skills. This has also been shared with the community through the newsletter (please see newsletter dated 8.09.10). In the two classes these students are in they are given a block of time to teach others. In Room 4 (years 3/4) there is a 'hands off mouse' policy where the Tekids are allowed to talk fellow students through a new skill but they are not allowed to use the mouse themselves. This not only adds to the learning but also presents the 'Tekid' with challenges too. They are having to develop their communication skills as well.

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23.09.2010

We have completed our 'Planning Bubble' for Term 4. the following is a snippet of the ICT/Inquiry plan.

23.09.2010

Some lunchtime fun turned into a process of learning, with the children of Room 7 taking advantage of all of the wet weather and turning out soft fall into a map of the Pacific. Check it out on

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23.09.2010

At the end of Term 3, our Seniors took part in a 'Survey Monkey' to assess the topic of 'Festivals & Cultures'. Check out the link: []

23.09.2010

In order to support the writing process our Seniors have been using DATT (Direct Attention Thinking Tools) in conjunction with Web 2.0 tools. 'Bubblus' provides a great format for a CAF (Consider All Factors). They have also created a rubrics for their writing which is displayed on the class wall and on the class blog. Check out the following link:

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23.09.2010

As part of our unit on Festivals and Celebrations, Room 4 looked at some different and unusual types of festivals, celebrations and ceremonies. Check out their 'Voicethreading' on their class blog. They have spent a lot of time practicing speaking so that they are delivering a polished commentary.

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23.09.2010

We used our questioning for Inquiry about Fiji. We threw a question dice and that helped us ask questions before we read the book. We posted the sticky notes on 'Wallwisher'. Some of the questions we were able to answer from the story and we also learnt something new from a comment left on 'wallwisher'. Check out the link below:

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**Goal: Meeting individual and school ICT needs**
23.09.2010

Our teachers have looked at their most valuable P.D. for this year and have shown how they have linked that into their classroom practice**.**




 * 23.09.2010**

We have looked at our first year of being a part of the Mantar Cluster. The following document is a reflection of where we have come from and where we are now.



**Goal: Sharing effective practice-Inquiry/Information Literacy/ICT and development of learning community**
Maria presented how she had integrated the questioning dice with her New Entrant Class. This had initially been used in a circle with an item for discussion. This has now developed into being used during writing time. The dice is used to generate 'next sentences' with modelled writing. This questioning has also lead to the inquiry process with shared reading. Students use questioning before the shared reading. Questions are stimulated with a picture or pictures from the book. It is then the students job to firstly ask the questions and then discover the answers throughout the reading of the book. This allows for scaffolding in inquiry, there is feedback and answers to their questions are mostly found in the text. If they are not a next step can be taken to find out the answers.
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 * Quality Learning Circles - Aokautere Staff Meeting**



Ainsley, Penny, Val are asking questions about Maria's presentation - Jane is behind the camera!    23.09.2010   As we continue along our Inquiry pathway, we have continued to adapt and revisit our pedagogy and practice. We have developed our own 'Wheel of Inquiry' so that we had a process to follow. After (firstly) an informal discussion we agenda our 'wheel' again in our staff meeting because we now believed that our students needed more involvement in utilising it.  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">media type="custom" key="6998053"  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1.11.2010

In a recent reading on 'Interface' I realised that our team was going was embracing the new term 'transliteracy'. We used this reading for discussion and highlighted areas of importance to us. We felt that one of the tools that was recently learnt at 'TeKids' - "storystarters" really showcased this web 2.0 tool in regards to 'transliteracy'. Please see the link below for a closer look.

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**Goal: Development of an ICT/elearning strategy**
1.9.10 Working with our ICT Tekids in our school and within the cluster has provided the opportunity to extend the knowledge of students in a deliberate and concentrated way. Students who attend participate and offer feedback in the form of a P.M.I. In the following workshop that was presented by Aokautere School students were asked how they could reach out to the community to show them what they did and how it effected their learning. The strategies that were employed were to use their thinking (DATT - A.P.C. - Alternatives, Possibilities & Choices) to generate ideas for work later on. They used this with a tool previously learnt - wordle. This took the learning to another level and away from the 'novelty' of playing with Web 2.0. Pikikids was then used as a medium to deliver a message about ICT. media type="custom" key="6810489" align="left"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Evidence of ICT
the effectiveness and collaboration of the cluster learning community
 * < **Goal** || **Date** || **Progress** || **Evidence** || **Lessons**
 * (what have we learnt?)** || **Next Steps** ||
 * < Engage outside expertise to extend and strengthen

//**Success Criteria**// As a result of outside expertise teachers are confidently sharing the impact of the professional development through: reflection, problem solving and sharing best practice ||= 3.5.10
 * Effective practice workshops
 * Professional conversations/shared language
 * Quality Learning Circles/concept maps
 * Mantar wiki will be used as a forum for discussion,

5.5.10

18.5.2010 ||= Whole school attending ICT Cluster PD (St James)

Class Blogs

Staff meeting with Mary for individual goal setting - Maria and Jane.

Staff Meeting with Mary Rivers (in attendance from Aokautere Val and Jane), Linton Country, Kumeroa-Hopelands School

Staff meeting - taking a look at teacher tv - in attendance - Jane, Penny, Ainsley, Val & Maria ||= All attended - minuted at staff meeting & board

Each class has a blog set up

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> __Dot Art Slideshow__ media type="custom" key="6158301" || We all took away quite alot from this. The digital photography seemed to strike a chord with all of us as this is something we can do in our classes and across the school. It also fits beautifully with our unit on Art Unit. Already one teacher has put into practice the tips that were given by Mary and has put it together with the students on power point.

There were plenty of trials and tribulations with the blogs, none of us had set anything like this up before so it was a real team effort. We have learnt to get the right supporting site and use a paid provider. We are now working on the other web 2 tools to use with our blogs. This has become very much a sharing thing amongst us, as one person finds some new tool they share it with someone else.

The goal setting and looking back on what I had set earlier in the year showed that as a school we had already come along way and have very competent staff on board. New goals were set. These focused on linking literacy with e-learning and taking our blogs to the next step.

We have learnt alot about blogging and how to set them up. We are very proud of what we have produced in such a short period of time.

Staff from the three schools revisited the digital workshop and shared what they had been doing.

__Val__ use Teacher TV to look at what others are doing and be inspired by how teachers are using ICT in teaching. __Ainsley__ a good source of information __Jane__ to see if any of it can be integrated into the programme __Penny__ to look at current situations in other countries. __Maria__ looked at the early years and thought the idea of using puppets and audio to create stories with the children was great.

__Room 6__ We are exploring an art unit and we created some dot art, using a didigeridoo as an inspiration. We looked at the dot art that told the story on the didgeridoo and created a sea turtle using dot art. We also did a CAF (Consider All Factors) on the story the art on the didgeridoo. Finally we wrote a story about the didgeridoo. I put these together in a slideshow and posted it on the blog. || To put onto the class blog.

Adding more class work to the blogs.

Going outside our community and joining the world!

Build on the beginning of literacy using the blog and computer (See slideshow from class blog). Investigate other ways of incorportating into the class.

Exploring different ways of recording our thinking on our blog. Building on our DATT thinking with recording our thinking using a flip video. || and seek ideas from our communities about the ways in which e- learning improves outcomes for students
 * < Engagement with the community Our schools engage

//**Success Criteria**// Community Voice journey through attending meetings, completing surveys (hard copy/online), reading newsletters, engaging in conversations, parent walk-throughs, attending information sharing evenings using experts, attending celebrations of learning
 * The community is involved in our cluster/e-learning
 * The outcomes of community engagement are reflected in the school charter document ||= 3.5.10

30.4.10 14.5.10 ||= Newsletters

Reporting to the Board

School Assemblies ||= A regular ICT spot in the newsletter

Report to Board - minuted

Presenting class blogs at assembly || This has been our main way of keeping our families informed of what is going on. It has not been hugely successful as we haven't had a lot of families sign up to the blog. This is however increasing as we have tried new ways of reaching out. We wrote a huge, colourful sign on the carpark blackboard inviting families to sign up to the blogs and e-learning! In two classes we put up paper and pen to get people to add emails so we could invite them on to the blogs - this was moderately successful. In the senior classes the students themselves encouraged families as they are much more hands on with the blogs. Our latest strategy was to show the blog for the seniors at assembly, we will continue this with the other classes as they hold assembly.

I have provided an ICT report to the board, informing them of all aspect of ICT for our school. This includes working with the technicians, what is happening in classes and equipment (if necessary).

__Room 2__ students presented their class blogs to the families at assembly. They showed their individual work, what they enjoyed about it and the links. They also demonstrated how to post comments. Room 6 I presented our class blog and showed the stories we have posted aswell as how to check the different categories. I also invited people other than Room 6 families to join us. || Keep on keeping on here. We believe that this will take some time to change people's thinking.

I am required to give updates for each Board meeting.

Some staff would like to explore the possibility of us opening the blogs outside of our school community. Topic for an upcoming staff meeting. ||