In the first half of this year we agreed that we would focus our attention and PD around the development of, and ensuring schoolwide consistency in Maths. We took our new learnings and understandings from DMIC and looked at our use of a text to grow our capacity and ensure that we were clear in our shared understanding of continuum of learning across the school. And then along came COVID 19 which obviously meant that we had to hone our efforts and attention on our Remote Learning and ensuring that our Community was well served under lockdown.
On return we reset, and as we had intended in the second half of the year our 'Teaching as Inquiry' has been focussed on the Teaching of Reading.
Our goals, as outlined in the presentation from our first Staff Meeting are ultimately to achieve a more cohesive schoolwide approach to teaching reading and literacy so that we can continue to raise student achievement.
We are continuing to be guided by and to use the Gwenneth Phillips prompts that we know work for our tamariki and 'The Reading Book" by Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey to help us to become more consistent and explicit in the way that we teach reading, and will be guided throughout by Rebecca Jesson from Woolf Fisher as our 'External Expert'.
We have formed a Reading Committee and are meeting regularly to co-design this piece of work so that we get the best 'bang for buck' for our tamariki.
