Whole School Staff Meeting

Staff Meeting 19/3                                              3:30 – 4:30

1)      Reviewing innovations – Waananga Akotahi - MCH

2)      Managing Assessment – GHA/AKU

3)      Strengthening Te Reo Maaori – TMA

4)      Planning for the year / PL and school committees- RCR

NCEA – Refresher – GHA

Consent given by NZQA or Industry Training Organisations to assess.

NCEA refresher

1. Consent : As a school, we must be granted consent to assess students against standards from NZQA. (Achievement standards, complete domains for unit standards)

2. Critiquing of assessment : your own or make changes an NZQA task, commercial ones need second pair of eyes checking the assessment task is suitable.

3. Internal Moderation Verification: no teacher works in isolation, credible grades, meeting the requirements of it consent:

·                     Student work selected purposefully (boundary grades), no set number of samples

·                     75% results goes to NZAQ

4. Authenticity: Publicly sourced assessment materials must be changed. No need to complete the same task or at the same time, Task can be broken into group components. Regular check points for students and teacher (monitoring, record keeping); submission of plans and drafts; oral questioning, requiring a repeat performance; use plagiarism software

5. Re-submission requirements: at grade boundaries, no further teaching and learning, soon after completion, 

6. Further assessment Opportunities: Only one further assessment in a year. Whole new procedure, Further teaching and learning, All students, Higher grade is reported. One more re-submission

7. Gathering evidence: assessed when students are ready, students can choose different standards, Different tasks or contexts can be used. Different ways of gathering (oral, digital, naturally occurring)

RCR – Read over and provide feedback to RCR about the possibility of joining a committee.

There is a possibility about Student-led conferences – however we need PD to manage that successfully. 

PPTA Meeting

13th March, 2018

Workshops you can be a part of - will see SSC

Meetings are only held when there is detrimental information that serves a specific purpose. SSC will decide if there are important things to discuss and will notify us.

Chair Person's report - 

Finance Report - No income for the year of 2017. No regional grant received. You have to apply - treasurers report. 

Autonomy in terms of controlling our own funds?? - Absolutely

Chairperson replacement - still SSC (love his swiftness with passing motions); Secretary the same; FO the same - LJA; H&SO the same - GSN; Maori Rep the same - KTU; Pasifika rep the same - MAN; NETS rep - ME!; Women's rep; Regional Rep remains the same; Men's rep - SSC.

NZEI have started negotiations for pay rises - fingers crossed. Negotiations are going on later in the year. Discuss with SSC if you have any ideas in regards to pay increases. 

3:30 this Thursday at WDSC the PPTA president and vice will be in attendance. 

5min bell warning - are we meant to let student's in? Discussing the communication between staff and colleagues. No we do not have to let them in, they can use this time to go to the toilet or get a drink. Discuss experiences across the school and hopefully come to a happy medium...

Meeting closed.

Textile's - Education Outside the Classroom

Have sent an email to the iconic Kiwi fashion label, Zambesi, in the hopes that they will sponsor the Year 13 Textile’s students to attend NZ Fashion Week 2018. This would be an amazing experience for them and of course for me!!! I was fortunate enough to complete two weeks work experience with them in 2002 and have remained in touch through a mutual relative. Looking forward to any kind of response.