Often at this time of year I post my End of Year Whānau Presentation. I decided that this one contained some interesting and different information as well some stats to celebrate
Thanks SO much to our approx. 100 volunteers who make so much of what we do for and with our beautiful tamariki possible!
Funny the things I get asked to do!
The Manaiakalani Roopu decided it was time to begin designing a Mathematics Practice Intensive to improve the way our teachers are teaching Maths. They gathered expert Maths teachers from across our network and asked me to deliver the provocation and expound the "why".
The "why" wasn't hard, the hard bit was that they were all expert Maths teachers and I owuld not call myself that. I guess though, I am an known practitioner when it comes to Schooling Improvement, Inquiry and Design, so what I could do is apply Inquiry logic to the task.
I hope I did an OK job!
I was given the task of issuing a "provocation" to our Kahui Ako teachers, on the subject of teacher Inquiry into Practice. I decided to go back to basics in this year of "doing the basics" really well, and as well as giving reminders, be really straight forward about what we're trying to achieve
Those of you who know me, know what kick I get out of writing songs and making music videos with groups of children.
This group (our 2023 Prefects) have quirky humour, have helped compose a great song and have contributed to our school values; -The Pt England Way. Enjoy!
I'm delighted to share this news.
We've come through COVID and we've come through floods and our children haven't gone backwards academically!
Congratulations to all teachers, support staff, whānau and others who have contributed to this result.
The year we thought was going to be the first "normal" one in ages, began with floods.
More anxiety; -a new kind; -"Weather Anxiety". The first time we had ever experienced a simultaneous civil defense text out to all citizens of Auckland. Whānau rushed across the city to pick up their tamariki, many arriving in a heightened state. We had to invent new procedures for how to dismiss children safely as although we'd learned to manage lock downs really well, we'd never had every parent receive the same message on their phones at the same time, causing them to descend on the school all at once.
We did well. ..And of course we re-wrote some of policy and procedure!
The water rose and then stopped at our doorsills. We were blessed, others not so fortunate.
The recorded presentation below was my shot at guiding the staff into what we all thought mattered most as we kicked off another unusual year!
