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= Goals =

1. Students empowered with the skills to learn in a way that enables them to become life-long, 21st Century learners.

7.03.2011

In Room 6, our New Entrant Class/Yr One, they are learning to use voicethread to improve their oral language by "talking like a teacher" and reflecting on their classmates comments or work. We have been looking at 'Bravery' and their thinking can be seen in the following link -

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5.5.2011

The students of Room 2 (formerly Room 4) have been writing poems about the topic of courage and bravery. Together in small groups they have written and published they poems in their chosen format onto the blog. []

Our Junior students are showing how they are able to use the 'Key Competencies' during 'Fun Day Friday'. This also included a student using the digital camera to take photos of his creation. []r

Teacher Only Day - Kath Murdoch

All teachers attended the Kath Murdoch day. We were all inspired by her presentation and this has had a strong impact on our teaching and our students learning. We have taken what we already do well and have added to this with ideas from Kath's presentation. The main focus for us, as teacher, for the students of Aokautere was learning and inquiry. We have been on an Inquiry journey for a number of years and we have added layers to this as time goes on. We already have the thinking strategies and tools with DATT which we use in conjunction with our inquiry process. We choose to use the learning process and the explanations of what we already do as a focus. Each classroom now has on their thinking walls a display of learning goals. These have been designed with the age of the students in mind. There has been total ownership of the goals for each child.







Our Senior students are creating their own displays of the first steps of their Inquiry by creating bubbles of what they know already. Their next step will be to formulate their questions.

Another strategy from the Kath Murdoch P.D. was to create explanations of thinking tools and strategies. These are to be displayed in the classrooms as prompts and referrals for learning.



 //3. Teachers will be well informed, confident users of e-learning //

5.5.2011 Year Two of our ICT contract has seen us be more confidence users of ICT as well as using our blogs as communication tools with students and with families. In Room 2 (formerly Room 4) the teacher has used a Youtube clip to key students and families into what is coming up in Term Two for learning. It is fun, provocative and provides the right 'hook in' for all. []

Our principal and teachers are posting comments onto the blogs to encourage students and to show that they value the learning being done. [] [] []

We have a new member of staff and she has quickly taken on the task of implementing ICT for her students. She was shown how to use web 2.0 tools such as 'Slideshare'. The teacher has now gone away and used the students work with slideshare and posted them onto the class blog.[]

12.05.2011 Information literacy is a strong focus for our school. This was a focus for one of our staff meetings where a staff member presented information about our students being digital citizens. A discussion talked about our students being cyber natives and we (adults, teachers) were cyber colonists. This underlines the differences between our students and teachers life and digital experiences. The meeting highlighted the progression from the Junior classes to our Senior classes who are online editing etc.

9.05.2011

We have a group blog on the VLN that we have all commented on. Great tool! []

9.05.2011

Each term we have a A.G.O. (Aims, Goals, Objectives) for the topic we are looking at. This has a the "Big Question" and what the students will learn.

Staff meeting upskilling teachers in voicethread and leaving reflective comments on students work. []

4 **.** Investigate, develop and implement ways to involve Family/Whanau in order to actively participate in and celebrate students learning success.

7.03.2011

25.2.2011

Room 4 presented assembly this week. Two of our TeKids put together the Voicethread that was presented to our families at assemblies. Please see the assembly notes for this -



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5.5.2011

At the beginning of Term 2 our teachers, students and parents will participate in 3-ways conferences. In our Senior Classroom the students have been working on their successes and what their next steps are. For this have have used a template. The students will present these to their families using a powerpoint presentation.

12.5.11 We put out a quick feedback survey for our parents after the 3 way conferencing, find included an example of the parental reflections. 63 out of 80 student's parents attended these conferences.

Our families are beginning to take an active interest in the students learning that appears on the blog. We are beginning to receive comments from parents and extended family. [] []

9.05.2011

Junior students - read the book Edwina the Emu. This fuelled an inquiry about emu eggs. An emu egg was brought to school, which created more questioning. Class turned to youtube to find more info.[]

12.05.2011

Our Principal delivers a thorough charter that is takes into consideration our students, families and community. This is approved by the board and the community has the opportunity to review and provide feedback. This charter to part of a community consultation that spans a five year period. It has been updated to show our progression and our next steps. This self-review process is thorough and part of the culture of our school and our commitment to excellence.

5. Through the development of the Te Kids initiative the students will grow as reflective leaders of e-learning

14.2.2011

We have had our first TeKids workshop for 2011. This year our students have increased to 7, allowing for greater sharing of knowledge. Students hooked into Key Competencies by targeting 'Participating and Contributing' as their strength. They thought that the area to work on was 'Making Meaning with Symbols and Texts'. Please link to

When our students returned to school they wrote their own quick reflection on their first day. This can be seen on - http://mantartekids.wikispaces.com/Aokautere+School

The TeKids met with the L.T. and together we decided how we would like to present workshops to upskill students at our school. This proposal was first presented to our Principal and then to the teachers for approval and support.

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As one of the Lead Teachers (Maria Dacre) I presented a workshop to the TeKids that focused on Inquiry and using a few different Web 2.0 tools. The process that I followed started with a book and out of that developed a thinking session that used de Bono's DATT (Direct Attention Thinking Tools). Firstly we used the information to create a mind map and then used a search engine to find out more information. This culminated in presenting an idea using their choice of Web 2.0 - this can be seen on http://mantartekids.wikispaces.com/Aokautere+School

Please see workshop that was presented -

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5.05.2011

TeKids have been running regular workshops across the school at 12:20pm each Friday. These students organise the workshops and make sure that they run smoothly. They have a weekly theme or web 2.0 tool that they are teaching. These workshops have been running from Year 2-6. Every few weeks they have a 'lucky dip', where they are allowed to teach whatever tool they like best. This has kept the interest high and all students enthusiastic.

Our TeKids are learning to be more reflective about what they are doing. They can state what they are learning about and how they felt about it. They are also able to write a procedure for how to create a Web 2.0 tool.

http://mantartekids.wikispaces.com/Aokautere+School

112.05.2011

Tekids staff meeting about our workshops.