Began at 7:04 with
RCR's email - A form for us to fill in about NCEA Level One. We now have to
choose a total of 10 credits to offer or two assessment standards. I'm not the
biggest fan of this change as I feel that this is not really preparing the
students for level two and three. But, I guess that's where my classroom
programme comes into it - I will have to come up with a range of tasks that
prepare them to complete the assessment standards as independently as
possible.
Staff Briefing: RCR 8:30am
Reminder about COL meeting -4pm
at Rototuna High
Reminder last period Friday – plan for it to be finished around 2:45. CATCUS
could potentially be pulling a fire truck from Bankwood Primary to FFC and
staff and students go out to support.
An unveiling of the grove of trees and a memorial rock at the Marae –
foundation students will be present.
NCEA Level 1, planning for 2018 – HOFs will report back to RCR using the word
doc he sent this morning. Two standards or no more than ten credits will be
provided
High Wire Trust: National Certificate in Services will be offering different
credits.
End of term morning tea in the staff room lunch 2 alongside foundation
students.
SAT
Pin board in the staffroom is
intended to be interactive
$1000 Budget for Learning
Advisory – we need to come up with something iconic to have an impact on the
school.
Proposal to have Learning
Advisory Budget’ for individual teachers.
Song: An orchestra flash mob –
some of the audience (a choir) joined in with the lyrics. The point of showing
us this is to inspire!
Based on last PL ideas: Lifelong
learners – connected contributors to community.
Leadership for an Age of Wisdom –
Branson
We still need to define the
meaning of the flower symbols on our logo.
In search of Alignment – todays
focus.
RCR – purpose and focus – Learning Advisory Groups 2018 8:55 – 9:30
We will have a clear
understanding of what Learning Advisory will look like in 2018. They will
remain vertical!
Cyclic Model – Noticing
(attendance); investigating; collaborative
sense making; prioritising to take action; monitoring impact…
Purpose of Learning Advisory:
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To provide a caring
environment for academic and pastoral mentoring and guidance
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Each student following a
purposeful and meaningful pathway.
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Changing the framework to
make this more achievable.
Difference from current whaanau structure
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This is included in our
teaching time.
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1200 minutes is the most a
non -unit holding teacher can teach.
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Current whaanau teachers
do 4 20min slots that are not counted as teaching.
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Class sizes of 14-18 (24
is the current average)
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A focus on coaching,
guiding, and mentoring (Thematic curriculum of learning)
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Requirements to follow as
issues arose
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Further promote the
mountain spirit of FFC
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A formal acknowledgement
of your role as a teacher.
“The idea is to make the present
situation as Whaanau teacher more achievable and realistic.”
The vertical structure is
important to the school culture
Each table group was asked to
fill in the ideas for the third column - How Could this Improve our capacity to
engage our core – business – performance indicators?
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including teacher time
90-120 mins
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class sizes of 14-18
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focus on coaching and
guiding etc
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thematic curriculum
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Further promote the
mountain spirit.
JHE Connections
Began with a baby photo activity
– collaborated with BTU and Bei. 9/10
Mountains are a big part of the
inter-connectedness of FFC.
Moving into our Mountain groups –
maintain and fostering the mountain spirit
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Could possible combine 2
learning advisory groups to cater for inter-mountain competitions.
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Different activities bring
in a diverse range of students.
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Put your own flavour on
your programme.
Maungatautari – completing
a worksheet/questionnaire about mountain affiliation, learning advisory groups…
SAT 10:00
– 10:45
Themes and tasks organised into
groups – collaboration with BTU; SRA; AMC; AHOU; BWA; JHE; MTR. Saved on an
excel spreadsheet to be collated by SSC
Sub calendar of the main school
calendar with focus themes for Learning Advisory.