U123

U123 Cluster toc

Cluster Schools
Foxton Beach School Website Tiritea School Website Tokomaru School Linton Country School Link to Pukeokahu School || ||
 * [[file:Presentation1.pptx Sept 11.pptx]] || [|Marama Stewart]

Meetings
Minutes of Meeting held at Tokomaru School – 11 August 2011 which focused on how we are raising Māori student achievement in our cluster

Cluster wiki

2010
A wiki will be created that records our learning story of how this cluster developed their professional knowledge of moderation nd Overall Teacher Judgements(OTJs) as identified within the National Stanards expectations.
 * Goal:**

In 2009 we looked at the New Zealand Curriculum Document, Key Competencies, and Inquiry Learning. **Tokomaru: Jared** - Community Consultation - visited every house personally. Asked parents what they wanted for the school along the way of values. Got core values to focus on. Major focus on particular value each term to try to weave into every action. Celebrate seeing values in action. Based document overview on work of Lester Flockton. Everything colour coded. Key areas achievement, student identity, links into community - build school up to become focus of community. Last years focus numeracy. This year is literacy. Looking at writing. Have looked at moderating with Jocelyn Goodwin. Matrix with KC’s and what they look like. Tokomaru School Curriculum on one A3 sheet. **Linton Country: Susan** sharing - Key competencies and inquiry learning. community survey. Key competencies in child speak and available to families in A5 booklet form. Have matrix for KC’s. Don’t assess, but focus on. Curriculum areas - one page overviews of our local curriculum documents - environmental focus in each area of the curriculum as per survey results. Charter up for review and further consultation on June 17 2010. **Foxton Beach: Ann** - Community consultation. From 20 values to get down to five. BOT and community came up with respect, excellence, responsibility, resilience, creativity. Staff and parents looked at underlying principles. Foxton Beach quality teaching and quality learning. Move in and out of integrated curriculum on a needs basis. Have big ideas, then decide as school which value, virtue and belief for each term. Each teacher has curriculum folder. How do national standards fit with this work so far. Staff have had a close look at writing in particular. useful as far as triangulation. All staff meetings based around curriculum and national standards. **Tiritea: Glenys** - Community consultation written and metings General goals, academic sporting and cultural goals. Each one is in three steps. e.g. Challenged might be sport manawatu to take lessons and talents pointed out to parents. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Hundreds of values broken down -reliability responsibility respect confidence. Depending on focus for each term. Done same thing with key competencies. no matrix. Curriculum - set up principles and method. Own progressions to start with, now each teacher has gone through the national standard at their level, and has taken bullet points from national standards, copy of written language progressions, exemplars, NZC document, and Tiritea School progressions. Re-doing written language document reviewing and aligning with NZC and national standards. <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">**Aokautere: Val** - Began with BOT staff, Tim White to facilitate. Visions and values. Like the idea of kids being kids. Key competencies done with children and in child speak. Children take ownership of that. Lot of work on policies into procedures. Linking planning to curriculum. Looked at bench marking and National Standards. Inquiry learning - getting it started. Community has been consulted.
 * Meeting dates for 2010**
 * Schools and Principals involved:**
 * Tiritea - Glenys Edmonds
 * Foxton Beach - Ann Brouwers
 * Tokomaru - Jared Ratana
 * Aokautere - Val Ferry
 * Linton Country - Bill Kaandorp
 * What have you already achieved? Please tell us your story.**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Development of School Curriculum **

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Tiritea School Written Language Progressions (not quite the final but very close!) <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Aokautere School Mathematics Progressions <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">