Excellent turn out and mahi today at the Christine Braid Structured Literacy workshop. Thanks to all attendees, TBCS for hosting and Christine for her time and wisdom.
At Upper Moutere School, part of creating a family-like context involves providing a range of leadership opportunities across the school. This includes, tuakana-teina time, student-led fitness, senior leadership programme, house leader activities, and many leadership opportunities within all classrooms. This is a valued part of the culture of the school and students actively seek out opportunities to lead.
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
Power sharing opportunities are provided for learners to learn with and from each other across learning areas. Students particularly enjoy Enviro Time, where learning tasks enable students to bring their own understandings, viewpoints, and questions. Learning is reciprocal: knowledge is co-created.
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