Wesley Primary School Principal's Blog

As we have done earlier this year our teams (Kea, Takahe and Hoiho).  Takahe  The team has started to use the kitchen space in room 8, have set up the breakfast and have kai accessible straight away in the morning.  Use of QR codes and using IPad for Classdojo   In room 9 is mainly used for construction and play eg for arts and children have plenty of access to the resources and supplies.  Takahe has also spread out the equipment and the organisation of learning.  Also the new promeathean have helped to link into learning through play and presenting through the active board.  The daily planning and groups are up on the wall and include 4 social groupings. We are mixing the kids and rotate the teachers and kids.  Literacy is set up and we are tighting our systems and also use of tokens. Teachers are encouraged to use their tokens for the...

PLD with Terry and Bhavini via Skype from the UK - 23 July 2021 Workshop 2 Reviewing our vision -  Using the PLS survey tool around our vision first and getting our staff to reflect to so that they can honestly provide a collective view of the school's vision and what is working and what may not be understood. It can be done individually and as a team and be very helpful to for individual reflection.  Workshop 3 - use Diagrams.net  Current and Next practice Part A - What is working well and challenges Part B - What is your next practice? Workshop 4 - use the learning behaviors into design principles Part A - What does it look like? or what should it look like in practice Part B - Pictures of these examples attached to the hex and gives the team the chance to define what they mean in their future planning regarding that particular learning theme e.g a shared common language.  Our leadership team feedback that this approach has come at the right time and also would hel...

Kia ora e te whanau, Nga mihi nui for supporting our Matariki Celebration this week. I want to thank our guests and whanau for attending today's special assembly and hangi - including Ministry of Education Staff, Kainga Ora staff, our Board of Trustees, Brenda Macpherson from the Māori Achievement Collaborative and many others.  Our kids really stepped up and performed with immense kia manawanui and with pride for our kura.  Also acknowledging Harko Brown for the Matariki history and practical lessons of using takaro and harekeke with our students earlier this week.  For Friday our key acknowledgements are for folks that have made our matariki celebration event possible, firstly to our school caregivers and whānau who helped make the hangi kai for us today, starting at 7.00 am this morning (Jackie, Andrew, Villi, Ty, Arthur). The whānau team and staff were supported by 5 employees from the icebreaker company led by Scott who came to vol...