Kāhui Ako ki Motueka

  This meeting took place on the 25th of February at TBCS. Louise was clear with us all that she didn't want to be working with us this time next year. This means that we will need to develop and maintain sustainable models of practice that allow for NE teachers to be operating in NE schools. A big part of this sustainability is co-construction meetings. This is where teachers bring along AREA data to a meeting in order to be coached by a group of teachers. The aim is to come away with a goal that addresses a disparity in the learning environment of the teacher. We watched two videos showing two seperate approaches, then had a crack at it ourselves. It was challenging to focus questions down to those that will make the teacher reflect deeply on their practice; as well as knowing when to interject if the discussion was heading off topic. We will continue to practise this method in future meetings, towards taking it into our own school context.

  Feedback from the voice collection from students at Mapua School in 2020 was analysed by the staff in Term 4, 2020. It came to light that the main area which will make learning more beneficial for students revolves around relationships. They thought that relationships between students, and relationships between students and teachers was very important. This falls squarely in line with the relationships based learning approach we have been undertaking through our Community of Learning (Kahui Ako) with our associate schools.   Last year the staff brainstormed how we could improve relationships through the school and the wider community. This was revisited at our Teacher Only Day and we have made some changes as a result: We have set up buddy classes, so that teachers can buddy up and children from across different levels can meet the younger/older students and share their learning. This will be changed each term, so that a wide variety of levels and students can build positive relation