What a cool day for our first day back after our lockdown.
The students were excited as I was. We had so much fun today, we treated it like a whanaungatanga day.
Welcome to Te Moana Class at Oturu School in the Far North. We are a year 6, 7, and 8 class our teachers are Whaea Ali and Whaea Tina.
What a cool day for our first day back after our lockdown.
The students were excited as I was. We had so much fun today, we treated it like a whanaungatanga day.
6/7/2021
Te Moana
PLD:
Facilitator: Donna Yates:
Donna showed me examples of google sites used by other manaiakalani schools. She showed me how to start a site and the tools available to set up learning groups within your classroom. We figured out how to embed hapara workspace into the site. The issue however is that the students can see the teachers format etc. We also discussed setting up a spreadsheet checklist so that both students and kaiako could use it as evidence to monitor their learning progress. I will revisit that option next term with Donna.
Monday the 28 of June
Staff Hui (Zoom)
Presenter: Bex Langton
STEAM
Resources
Manaiakalani Literacy Sharing
Donna Yates Facilitator
Paparore School
15/6/2021
Kaingaroa: Elise
Evaluation of Resources and Classroom Management
Evaluation of online resource. Akonga are no longer engaged or motivated by Morning Challenges. Ali and I have decided to create our own Morning Challenge based on our inquiry 'Waterways'. This will be more relevant to our learners needs and we can tailor it to suit our localised curriculum.
We have also noticed an improvement in the noise level in Te Moana. We rearranged the classroom to reduce off task learning behaviour. We are now able to view what the akonga are learning on their devices without relying on Hapara. We have also noticed akonga are more engaged in their learning. We have also reinforced our expectations by setting clear instructions. Lining up before we enter the classroom, how we enter the classroom etc. This is having a positive impact on their overall behaviour.
We will begin our reading writing and maths rotations next week. With consistency, this will improve the overall learning behaviour of the class.
Well Being Symposium
Friday 4th June 2021 Kaitaia Intermediate
Presenters: Pio Terei and Nicola Adams (Nga Puhi)
Morning Challenges is an online resource that we have implemented into our daily planning that provides a variety of cross curricula questions and challenges. Our akonga are engaged in the daily challenges. The learning is differentiated meaning everyone has the opportunity to achieve success. It was great to see one of the challenges required the akonga to use google drawings. The akonga are becoming more confident and creative in presenting their mahi. I especially like that they need to formulate great questions to get great answers.
PLD:
Jeannet Penney
6 May 2021
Oturu School
'Making Sense' sensory strategies trauma informed PB4L
What do we or can do to help our tamariki learn at school
We used Padlet to brainstorm our kaupapa about Making a Difference to our community. This was an effective way to collect student voice. Students were able to use images and text to support their ideas.
We also played kahoot. This was a fun activity that enabled students to participate with their peers.
Today the students learned how to use the class site and access their own learning. They were able to chose which level of fluency suited their needs. From Kakano, to Rito to Puawai. This was great as it allowed the students to navigate their learning at their preferred level.
I need to keep practicing how to put things (imbedding items) onto the class site.