Oral language initiative shared meeting

Oral Language initiative shared meeting held at Remuera Primary school Monday 11th June was another opportunity for teachers from CPDS, Maungawhau and RPS to meet together and share ideas. 3 Staff from Cornwall Park and Mark Hassall ( ASL) attended a PD day in Whangarei with Sheena Cameron & Louise Dempsey. This meeting gave them a chance to share some effective oral language strategies and for the teachers to explore how these might be integrated into their inquiries &/or classroom programmes. The meeting also provided further opportunities for some great dialogue between our schools. Thanks to all who attended.

Maths Initiative Meeting

Last Thursday, the Maths Initiative Team were lucky to have the meeting at Newmarket Primary’s amazing new vertical building. 

We discussed the results of the maths attitude survey and discussed interesting trends, such as Newmarket Primary have a dip in Year 4 students attitude towards maths compared to the national norm which is year 5.

Sonya Van Schaijik (lead ASL) shared an amazing resource she created, inspired by Mary Chamberlain. All three schools will be putting in their ideas so we can collaboratively create an action plan for mathematics. Included will be the key drivers/desired outcomes.

From the discussions, the ASLs and ISL’s are very excited to get a group of students from each school together to trial a mixed ability CoL maths group (watch this space!) This is something we are very excited about so students within our initiative will have an opportunity to network and extend themselves. We are hoping this will also allow our students to have a smoother transition between primary and intermediate.

ASL Meeting Term 2

On Thursday 7 June the Across School Leaders had a productive and engaging day with Jill. The morning started off with Bryce from ANI updating everyone on the assessment pilot group that has started. Following this, Jill ran a leadership workshop with the ASL’s with a focus on leadership in action. Through a range of activities, we were able to think about what we were doing as leaders, the challenges we face and what our next steps are. 

Activity 1

Activity 2

Team 1

Team 2

Team 3

Samoan Language week - Remuera Intermediate whole school Sasa

Samoan Language Week

For Samoan Language Week this year, Carl Maskell planned and coordinated a whole school Sasa with the help of some very capable student leaders. A revised version of our school Sasa was shared with each teacher as a video, and student leaders made available to teach the movements to each of the 28 classes in the school. Over the course of the week classes practiced in class time, fitness and PE time, and on Thursday 31st May the whole school assembled on the courts to perform. The students performed with pride and the results speak for themselves!