Weekly Log: Term 3 2016

DATE	DESCRIPTION/DURATION	ACTION
14/7	Exibition planning: Year 7s;  (9:00 – 1:00)	Contribute to collaborative planning; collect resources for students to experiment with.
18/7	Non-contact 10-4: Organising classroom resources/wall displays; began math/literacy planning	Threw away loads of ‘junk’ and orientated myelf with students books/classroom layout etc
19/7	Non-contact 11-4: Shared in on term overview and how to organise planning on google docs (shown by Rach VH); introduced to using Sites to create a class ‘blog’; using e-asTTle to create formative tests; Will be teaching Spanish during Teaming, found Spanish resources in LC (thanks Rach!)	Continue planning checking on Rachel’s planning and working collaboratively to complete. Begin planning for Spanish.
25/7	Team Meeting: Term 3 Curriculum overview and collaborative planning/teaching; UOI4 HWOO discussion (resources); duty expectations;	Continue planning & building connections with Room 9 and the Te Aroha Team
26/7	Staff Meeting 3:30: Waiata (E noho Tuheitia) practice; e-portfolio discussion (are students up to date/do they know how to add information?); Information evening (organisation/expectations); Prospectus 2017 (read through; specific focus on STEAM Y9 programme)	Discuss with Amelia what she would like me to do. Meghana’s name put forward to be a speaker; push forward the idea of students remaining as Y9s.
2/8	Staff Meeting Exhibition: Exhibition SUP Planner details; Y7 expectations and organisation of lessons/management; collaboration	Meet Monday Week 3; Contribute to Y7 planning
3/8	Lighthouse Meeting: Opportunities for Lighthouse Learners within school; LHL to reflect on their year so far; How are we meeting their needs in the classroom?; Gifted And Talented evening: learning about teaching GAT students	Continue to talk with Regan about LHL and learn strategies for deeper learning; give students opportunityt o reflect. Think about registering for  GAT evening
8/8	Information Evening catch up with Amelia: discussed how the room will look and what my role is, as well as costume ideas. Y7: Exhibition meeting with Ed, Sarah, & Duncan: collaboration of SUP planner and organisation of resources. Meet The Teacher, 3:20 with C Roach: Discussed the plans for the term, my expectations, & establishing a positive rapport with Adam. Tutor Teacher meeting: Information on Google Doc. Discussed release plan; students of concern; Room 9 homework	Amelia is on top of organisation, I just have to show up! Contributed minimally to plannig but, will step up my involvement by adding to planning and searching for more teachable resources. Feeling positive about connection with Adam and his mum. Plans on GD
9/8	Meet the Teacher: 7:20am with C. Pentecost Meet the Teacher, 11:30am with W Dong Exhibition meeting, 3:15	Refer C to ELC for help with reading comp. W Dong happy with her daughter’s achievement just asks that I challenge her as much as possible. Exhibition planning explained. Still need to add to SUP planner
10/8	Staff meeting: Information evening, Drama support:
12/8	Tutor teacher (Rachel van Hueven):: Students of concern; plan for release	TB on daily report; observation of analysing persuasive advertising during first half of release
15/8	Meet the Teacher: 3:30pm with R Wilson	Discussion about J’s needs and how she is currently going. Happy with teacher change-over
16/8	Staff Meeting e-portfolio: Student’s needs and how we can best teach understanding of e-portfolio.  Meeting with Justine (TB’s mum): Concerned about daily report and the reasons behind it.	Continue to collaborate
17/8	PCT with Wendy:  Gail Day; preparation; expectations; reading chapter 1-2 of ‘The Language of Influence in Teaching’ and providing feedback	Meet with Rach and plan for Gail Day
17/8	Tutor Teacher (Rachel van Hueven): Planning for Gail observations; discuss students of concern and how class is going;	Planning up to 3 lessons, for Gail day, aboout persuasive writing including an informal debate. Still concerned with some students behaviour that is negatively impacting the class
19/8	Market Day: Setting up stalls durng third block; handing out gloves for food safety; discussing table layout; cutting onions!/	Counting up each students cash box at the end of the day and entering amounts into a google spreadsheet. Using formulas to work out profit/loss
23/8	Staff Meeting: Gail Loane: Analysing writing samples; quick write (factual) with autumnal leaves as a prompt; shared writing with group and talked about how hard it was not to be emotive when writing factually, but can be descriptive;	Incorporating creative writing through quick writes into the classroom
25/8	Gail Observation: Block one (9-9:30); Finishing second lesson lesson of persuasive article/text. Recapped previous lesson, (which was interrupted by an opportunity to listen to a Food Technologist) and continued with moving students towards a debate in order to develop use of cause and effect statements and persuasive language.	Although extremely nervous I was quite happy with how the lessonwent. I have some really fabulous students
25/8	School Dance 6:30 – 9:40: Supported Rongo (canteen), to sell food and drinks to students from the musci room entrance. Support also from T Ahie, C Hogg, and C Donnelly. Took turns serving and popped into Whanau Hui (20mins) in the staffroom to show support. Spent the last 20mins dancing with students and then making sure students were picked up, and then helping to clean	Collaborated with other staff, connected with a range of students and started getting a sore throat!!
30/8	Staff Meeting:  Missed due to illness	Follow up with team members
31/8	Lighthouse Learners Meeting: Missed due to illness	Catch up with Beth Germaine
31/8	Tutor Teacher Meeting: Missed due to illness	Catch up with Rach vH
1/9	Staff Meeting: Began with Waiata E Noho To Hei Tia Te Reo Maaori; iPPit plan; Oral Choral; IRDPX	Will be adding more rich tasks when teaching Spanish and Te Reo Maaori, such as ping ponging and looping.
	Team meeting: Beth UOI discussion. How the UOI is taught in our classrooms (team); What summative tasks look like; how we as teachers give feedback/feedforward to students; managing the tasks in the time given	Provide explicit teacher feedback as often as possible; May be provided with a Stamp to manage feedback more effectively
6/9	Staff Meeting: PYP. Began with waiaita: E Noho To Hei Tia The inquiry cycle’s connections to the PYP; how we use the inquiry cycle at Berkley; the inquiry cycle is cross-curricular; expert group/home group strategy used; Misconceptions about inquiry cycles; form of inquiry cycles	Student led links to the inquiry cycle; including connectins to the inquiry cycle across the curriculum;
7/9	Tream Meeting: Pallet lesson reflection (verbal), uploading photos to shared folder. Arranging timetable and resources for UOI5 Pulley lesson & lessons for Week 8.
7/9	Tutor Teacher (Rachel van Hueven):  Filling in google doc: Areas to discuss; students to discuss; looking forward…
8/9	Report Writing Meeting: Expectations and requirements still the same as last year. Slight change in access to report blanks.	Begin in Holidays. Collect assessment marks from Etap, NZCER and e-asTTle
8/9	Communication with parent: Called CP’s dad to discuss repetative non-compliance in and outside of the classroom. Dad was happy with strategies that have been put in place. CP has been removed from class and supported in the ELC. Working towards making his way back into room 9	Ongoing communication with Judy in the Elc to see how CP is going. Open communication with dad. Will be in touch about progress by 16/9
13/9	Team Meeting: PLR (Priorty Learning Registar), filling in math WALTs for target students and their progress with knowledge development. Target students identified and records of progress up to date	Continue to monitor and support identified PLR students.
13/9	Staff Meeting PYP: Continued review of inquiry cycle; initial group discussions revisiting misconceptions; small group work looking at a range of other inquiry cycles and choosing elements that may suit a change to the current BNMS interpretation.	Continue to deliver learning through the use of inquiry cycle, but iencourage student owenership through discussion and choices of connections. Doesn’t have to be so prescribed (linear)
15/9	Team Meeting, e-asTTle moderation: Two examples of students work from Room 9 was moderated alongside Pip. Annotating and deliberating their level. Chosen levels had to be justified using the exemplars and e-asTTle marking rubric.	Have marked 6. Need to continue marking and have faith that I am on the right track. Quite enjoying marking this persuasive piece!
22/9	Parent Meeting:  Regan support. Meeting JH’s Father to discuss behaviour and self-management. Father was very open and reciprocal. Discussed strategies to work towards better self-management, and attitudes/responses towards learning/peers	JH to do any form of writing on laptop and create Agenda doc each week to share with parents and myself. Discussed safe space to use when feeling frustrated/angry; Father fully supportive, Mother no-show.