Class Blog- ITC - 2015

One of my personal goals for the year is to construct a class blog which will be added to every two to three weeks. I would also like to promote the children sharing this blog with their families.

The blog address is added to each interim and end of year report. We have not had many people review our blog which is disappointing. The blog has small amounts of information and lots of visual presentations like photos.

I an going to try promoting this blog at interviews with whanau in term 4. I have previously promoted with our class when we have written up posts together. I feel looking back that I should do these posts more frequently with the children aiming to get the children to write up the posts.


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Science - Scientific Investigation Method- Term 3 2015

Dannevirke High School have organised a Science Fair. I prepared information for the staff to share at a staff meeting to help us all share the scientific investigation with our children.

The goal was for our children to investigate and present their experiments either in a group, as a whole class, or as individuals. The individual presentations will be entered in the DHS science fair in week one of term 4.

Science Inquiry Unit Term 3

Inquiry Science Evaluation

DSS Science Fair organisation

Teaching as Inquiry- Reading - 2015

Staff  as a whole have undertaken a reading inquiry for their professional learning this year. 

MY question is : how do learning intentions and success criteria impact on the learning of the children?

The document attached as shown the progress, reflections and impact this has had on my target children.

TAI - Julianne - 2015


TAI-Reading - entry and exit data


tai target chidlren sheets


databoard updates

whanau observations part two

TAI cycle

whanau observations part one


Reading Together- During the year Jane and I trained to share Reading Together with our whanau- caregivers and parents. During term 3, we had our first group of ten parents. They were a mixture of Team 1 and 2 whanau. The chosen whanau were a mix of cultures.
We were overwhelmed with the success of the programme- such fantastic reports and feedback from our parents- young and old!
Our plan is to share this programme with whanau in both term 2 and 3.

Attached is the report to the Ministry.

Reading Together report

The timetable of the programme:

Workshop	Topic
Workshop 1 28 July- South School Library	How to help with reading at home 1.     Introduction – an overview of Reading Together 2.    Your child as a reader- sharing your ideas and experiences 3.    Ways of helping your child with reading – explanation, demonstration and discussion 4.    Finding time to help at home 5.    Using libraries
Workshop 2 4 August – South School Library	How to check the difficulty level of reading materials 1.     Sharing experiences 2.    Finding and using the right material with your child 3.    Helping your child to read suitable material(please bring your child to this workshop so that you can read together)
Workshop 3 11 August – South School Library	How to help children overcome problems with their reading 1.     Sharing experiences (including books enjoyed at home) 2.    Ideas about how we read and what helps us to read 3.    More ways of helping children, especially when they cannot recognise a word 4.    Trying these ideas as a group
Workshop 4 15 September – Tararua District Library	Sharing ideas about reading, giving feedback and looking ahead 1.     Sharing progress and experiences 2.    Other ideas about learning to read 3.    Giving feedback about Reading Together 4.    Ways of keeping up the support at home 5.    Looking ahead to other possibilities

Schoolwide Focus- Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

We have had some readings that we discussed as Team  Leaders with Stephen throughout the year. Parts of these readings were shared with our team as well as taking on board ourselves. Reflecting as a team helped us to clarify our ideas and understandings of using learning intentions and success criteria.

Throughout our team we experimented initially with learning intentions and success criteria in writing. As my confidence improved and I say how the attitude and clarity of the children in their learning improved I began using simpler and clearer intentions. The class and I grew in confidence when using success criteria. These were displayed around the room for all to refer to as well as in modelling books.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zBMch89rVRCcdpRNnC5MIfpM59Wr1ACsJz-UV1Unjlg/edit?usp=sharing

Team 2 Learning Intentions review for 2014- report for BOT

BOT Report about Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

ALIM 2013

During 2013, I was part of the MOE ALIM group. This group was made up of people from Wellington to Rotorua, covering primary and secondary school children. This professional development included readings, working with small groups each day both within the class and withdrawn. this was for children who were below the National Standard for their age.
A very reflective year focussing on maths, constantly updating the way you spoke or worked with equipment and children.
Attach MOE final report that was presented to colleagues.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVlLUIBJ22u9ZxezgYf0KyLW94DI4wdDYqPmDIGoEHc/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/19HXMVLbtfX2u00rgdNQVk24o-QMsddblxkgD6Wk4CO0/edit?usp=sharing

Team Meetings

Lots of meetings this year......team agenda

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hNaTm0GUl1HTTupQCuTG7p8fxKx5_EFvBFz-MwaCLeY/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tyEFIq8CoQV_jjzW3DO81avfretKMWPTowS9qu8IR14/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14y4m9c6NvMdOw4N70JZWwlS88ZhKWE9tF1RROSaslek/edit?usp=sharing