PLD 2022

Structured Literacy

This year we are continuing to work on developing our structured literacy programmes school-wide. As the members of the school that hadn’t previously had the training, we were receiving this at the beginning of the year the rest of us were working on our school-wide approach. It has been great to get into this more deeply this year to start working on this structured literacy site. It has been great this year to be implementing the rules and REVLOC knowledge we gained last year. It is exciting to see how the kids are progressing and how well they understand the rules, I love hearing the specific language being used. 

I am also enjoying working with Lillian and seeing how to do the coaching observations, they use a good recording sheet that identifies all the aspects we are looking for. 

 

PMP

Vicki from sport canterbury has come and given us an introduction of PMP with some key starting points. This session focussed on using the body and scarves and equipment that we have around the room. It was a really good session and got us thinking about the basics and allowed us to see how easy it is to implement as part of our class programme, she gave us some good ideas on brain gym activities. It was a fun, low-key session and she gave us lots of good resources to use. 

We then took what we learnt from her and used the knowledge with the specialised gym equipment we have. We use this every Friday in the whare manaaki and the kids love it! They always ask when is it gym time. I look forward to getting her to come back next term and see what we have been doing and for her to give us more tips and tricks and to ensure we are using the equipment correctly. 

PB4L

I have enjoyed the classroom practice teams sessions I have gone to with Rebecca. We have tweaked our form to ensure we are delving deeper into the behaviour and we ran a staff meeting on it with the school. We are going to have these CPT teams as the hub teams and have Jayne, Rebecca and I supporting one hub each. The recent session we attended we were able to see what forms other schools have come up with, I do enjoy these days. Check out this link for the PD session we did with staff.

  

Te-Reo 2022

 In term 1 we focused on learning our morning karakia, days of the week and our class names as well as attending kapa haka sessions to learn some waiata. Unfortunately due to the nature of the term with covid we only had a couple of kapa haka sessions and were unable to have the time in these to really learn any new waiata. As we had our BSU focus this term instead of having longer Te Reo sessions once a week we had our Te Reo focuses at different times of the day e.g. morning karakia time at 9, days of the week during our homeroom sessions and throughout the day we were learning to recognise our classroom/hub names.

We also used the Te Reo language for our movement breaks. The tamariki responded really well to this and thoroughly enjoyed when we do the movement breaks. We have these up on the wall beside our teaching station and can pull them off as a visual reminder if students need additional support to the oral language being used.

We also spent some time looking at our cultures and developed our cultural wall for this year celebrating where we all come from. We ensured that we talked about how we are all New Zealanders and that some of us have other cultures that we identify with also. We looked through this cultures slideshow to learn a bit more about each of our cultures.

Term 2:

We have continued learning the morning karakia, days of the week and our class names as well as attending kapa haka sessions to learn some new waiata, although this has been difficult as the children are not able to learn at the pace that the tutor is working at.

We have also been exploring the names of all the buildings in the school and when we leave the classroom to go to another space we use the name of that space for example we go to the whare manaaki at least 3 times a week and I feel if you asked the children where it is they would know. We do lots of little snippets of learning throughout each day. We have also explored a few more picture books for our story-sharing time that have a lot of Te-Reo in them or that are Māori stories also. See this link to check out the books we have explored. 

 

We used the How Maui slowed the sun as our book review for the leaders of literacy and it was exciting to see the children retelling the story in their own words and saying what they really liked about the story.

For next term: To help with our new children and whānau transitioning into our space I am going to put the Karakia up on the wall in the space of the classroom that we do it so they are able to see it and make connections to it. We are also looking at Karakia Kai and when we can do this. Moving to do Kapa Haka within our own space so we will explore the waiata and actions that we want our tamariki to be learning and strong in.