Lighthouse PLC - August 2016

31 August 2016

Present: Everyone!
Location of our meetings	Move to 8A
Student Voice + Engagement Feedback Results	Not ready to share at this stage.  Will feed back to you when all data is in. What were our goals for Lighthouse 2016?  How are we doing in our work towards meeting these?  What questions do we have? What are our next steps? Student Voice Google Survey. Shared document here.	Please get this completed ASAP BG will email any Classes without 8 responses.
Year 7 lighthouse learners	Podding Year 7s in 2017 Year 7s still want to be fed the information.  The Year 8 are that far advanced in that they are ready to go for it alone.  Might accidently not give the year 7 accelerate group the scaffolding they need. Year 8 accelerate are confident. We need to think really hard about the way we would collect the data to identify the students at year 6.  Not confident that the systems we have would be successful at identifying the learners. Can we go back to our community to ask what they want? Transition at year 7 is in general very tough.  Some learners find this transition enough to manage and flounder for a period of time.  It might be more important to place based on the teacher-student match rather than to identify accelerate. Want to value data about the ‘whole’ learner when considering placement.
Rose bowl festival	Will ask for Lighthouse student interest to participate alongside.
Science Speaker Opportunity	John Sharp (Hayley Sharp's Dad) is coming into speak to Mahi Tahi on Tuesday next week. Block 2.	Email Beth to indicate interest - including numbers
Next meeting	Venue: 8A Date: Term 4 Week 3 Wednesday October 26 8am Focus: Acceleration in the PYP