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An account of life at a small sole-charge New Zealand school
Sunday, June 27, 2004
Principals Report
BOT Meeting
June 22nd 2004
Roll 9
Staffing Unchanged
Curriculum
A progress report on some of the goals for this years curriculum focus:
1. Improve literacy skills at levels three and four.
2. Improve numeracy skills at levels three and four.
3. Continue to incorporate asTTle as the main diagnostic overview for senior literacy and numeracy.(sr & sp )
4. Modity planning and teaching as result of information presented by aSStle(sp).
5. Set up school and community homepage.(sp b)
6. Incorporate skills from Numeracy Development project into classroom programme.(sp pd)
We are making excellent progress toward the literacy goals. As a result of the aSStle tests in term one I have been able to set very specific goals for reading in the senior school. The focus has been on vocabulary, comprehension, and higher order thinking skills. The checkpoints built into the programme have shown very solid progress. At the end of this term we will test their study skills and focus on developing these through term three.
Progress on the numeracy goals has been much slower. While our normal programme hasn’t really suffered we have been intending to use the new numeracy programme to take a step up. Very little happened in the first term and it has been only in the last few weeks that I have been able to introduce new elements into the programme. It looks very promising but it does require huge changes and I am not convinced that the on-line option has been very good. It’s slow, unreliable, and rather shallow in it’s coverage. Fortunatly the maths advisor has allowed us to join in with the workshops in Inglewood. The downside is that it has increased the costs of an already expensive development programme. Hopefully we will begin to see a more positive outcome next term.
The school and community homepage or matauschool.com.nz will be up and running next term. I have avoided the temptation to make it flash and have allowed the children, (with Rachel Jeffares help),to do it themselves.
The children are also taking part in an experimental Hyperstudio unit based around interactive fiction with Mike Whiteman. Although it’s early days the children are very
keen. It involves using multi-path logic and requires an ability to visualise the final outcome in your head. I have the feeling that this is something children can do better than adults but that we tend to teach it out of them. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I hope everyone enjoyed the follow-up to the Wellington trip. Later in the year we will be looking at parliament and possibly extending our rock climbing abilities. We will also be doing some city inspired artwork.
Administration
A very quite month for administration.
Upcoming Events.
June 24th ICT network meeting at Toko. 25th Dave Roderick’s observation visit.
July 1st RS31 Roll return to Ministry. This sets staffing levels for next year. 2nd End of term two. Reports and take home books to go home.
We will be going to New Plymouth on Wednesday to see Shrek 2.
BOT Meeting
June 22nd 2004
Roll 9
Staffing Unchanged
Curriculum
A progress report on some of the goals for this years curriculum focus:
1. Improve literacy skills at levels three and four.
2. Improve numeracy skills at levels three and four.
3. Continue to incorporate asTTle as the main diagnostic overview for senior literacy and numeracy.(sr & sp )
4. Modity planning and teaching as result of information presented by aSStle(sp).
5. Set up school and community homepage.(sp b)
6. Incorporate skills from Numeracy Development project into classroom programme.(sp pd)
We are making excellent progress toward the literacy goals. As a result of the aSStle tests in term one I have been able to set very specific goals for reading in the senior school. The focus has been on vocabulary, comprehension, and higher order thinking skills. The checkpoints built into the programme have shown very solid progress. At the end of this term we will test their study skills and focus on developing these through term three.
Progress on the numeracy goals has been much slower. While our normal programme hasn’t really suffered we have been intending to use the new numeracy programme to take a step up. Very little happened in the first term and it has been only in the last few weeks that I have been able to introduce new elements into the programme. It looks very promising but it does require huge changes and I am not convinced that the on-line option has been very good. It’s slow, unreliable, and rather shallow in it’s coverage. Fortunatly the maths advisor has allowed us to join in with the workshops in Inglewood. The downside is that it has increased the costs of an already expensive development programme. Hopefully we will begin to see a more positive outcome next term.
The school and community homepage or matauschool.com.nz will be up and running next term. I have avoided the temptation to make it flash and have allowed the children, (with Rachel Jeffares help),to do it themselves.
The children are also taking part in an experimental Hyperstudio unit based around interactive fiction with Mike Whiteman. Although it’s early days the children are very
keen. It involves using multi-path logic and requires an ability to visualise the final outcome in your head. I have the feeling that this is something children can do better than adults but that we tend to teach it out of them. It will be interesting to see what happens.
I hope everyone enjoyed the follow-up to the Wellington trip. Later in the year we will be looking at parliament and possibly extending our rock climbing abilities. We will also be doing some city inspired artwork.
Administration
A very quite month for administration.
Upcoming Events.
June 24th ICT network meeting at Toko. 25th Dave Roderick’s observation visit.
July 1st RS31 Roll return to Ministry. This sets staffing levels for next year. 2nd End of term two. Reports and take home books to go home.
We will be going to New Plymouth on Wednesday to see Shrek 2.
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
THE WELLINGTON EXPERIENCE
On Thursday 17th 7:30 at the school the children will present reports on the school trip to Wellington. This involves an oral presentation as well as video and powerpoint. The fire will be going and there will be coffee to follow. Everyone is welcome.
You can also check out our new interactive fiction
On Thursday 17th 7:30 at the school the children will present reports on the school trip to Wellington. This involves an oral presentation as well as video and powerpoint. The fire will be going and there will be coffee to follow. Everyone is welcome.
You can also check out our new interactive fiction
