2017 Review

Having worked at Pt England since 1991 and wound up the year "in this chair" in 1993, I do celebrate the work and effort, wins and needs to win, of each year!

This has been a good one. We certainly have some stuff to work on, but we also have some stuff to celebrate.

The embedded screen record below is my "partnership meeting" with our Pt England whanau where we talk about what has gone on during the year and how we might approach things in the New Year.

Thanks SO much for supporting us in 2017! We need all of you to make this the village we would all like it to be.

December, and I really feel like putting the seesaw graphic in there again. -I won't because I'm sure you're all really bored with that one already!
Our emerging end of year data shows the need to:

• focus on language acquisition
• focus on mathematics
• focus on learner and staff wellbeing
• focus on the environment

Any one of these would normally be at least year's work. As I commented in an earlier post this year, I think the only way ahead is integration.

So.....we have to find a really smart way of putting all these things together so that teachers don't feel as though there are more and more "bolt ons" that nobody can do justice to.

We're fortunate to have scored 600 hrs of centrally funded PLD, which we can use to apply to the Manaiakalani and Language challenges and equally fortunate to have been offered the opportunity to participate in DMC Mathematics PLD.

So we have the money, ...but do we have the time and capability?

Fortunately Jannie Van Hees has some exciting ideas about how we could use environmental themes to carry the language development and develop maths and science at the same time.

Lets see how this plays out!