2013 syndicate info for parents

Awapuni School – where children love to learn and learn to love

•Welcome & introductions

•Please sign guest book

•Syndicate information

•Visit your child’s classroom and talk informally to

their teacher

Sarah AperahamaRoom 1

Cheryl TorrieSyndicate Leader

Sara Gaertner

Room 2

Annie GearRoom 3 Kate Richardson

Room 4

Frances O DonnellRoom 5

Sherryl GommAssociate

Syndicate Leader

Our partnership with you

Awapuni School views our partnership as a three-way triangle

Open communication is vital

communicate by email…see your child’s teacher

Excellence

Integrity

Creativity

Respect for ourselves and others.

Family

&WhanauSchool

Child

Family

&WhanauSchool

Child

We believe in PRIDE

Personal

Responsibility

In

Developing

Excellence

EssentialLearning

Areas

English

Maths

Science

Health

& PE

Social

Sciences

The

Arts

New ZealandCurriculum

Technology

Key

Competencies

•building a learning environment in our classrooms that fosters emotional safety

•Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L)

•Cooperative learning & small group skills

•Student independence and self-control

•Students responsibility for their own learning

•Intrinsic motivation for rewards

•Thinking about thinking

•Everyone is a learner - students and teachers

School Rules

Social skill

teaching

Labeling and

acknowledging

behaviour

When faced with inappropriate behaviour the students are taught the strategy of using their WITS….

The emphasis in this strategy is to say an “I”statement first and assert that they do not like the behaviour being presented to them.

W = walk awayI = ignore itT = tell someoneS = say an “I” statement.

5 classes each with Year 4, 5 or 6 students,

Syndicate combines for many activities...

Singing and assembly once a week with the Year 6

students taking a leading role

Daily exercise 5 days a week + Games on Thursdays

Kapa Haka on Fridays – searching for new tutor/s

Your children will have the following in their programme…

daily lessons in numeracy and literacy access to information technologies with their own

email address Integrated curriculum that is rich and connects to

the real world with an inquiry base where appropriate library access at school once a week for targeted

teaching of information/library skills monthly visits to the HB Williams Memorial Library involvement in community activities wherever possible

•We teach Mathematics & Statistics

•Problem solving is a big component

•Mental strategies are developed

•Maths is timetabled every day

•Students at this level need to know their basic facts

•Teachers involved in professional learning

•We teach reading strategies that aim at developing reading comprehension into the high levels of inference

•Many of our Senior Syndicate students are readers and are now reading to learn

•We have a small number of students that will need support

as they are still learning to read

•No matter what their reading level, students need to be

reading texts of their own choice every night to become

lifelong readers who use texts for leisure and pleasure and

to gain information

•Awapuni School has identified many factors in writing that need emphasising from annual whole school reviews of writing

•Writing is timetabled daily.

•Spelling is an important part of writing

•students are in a formal spelling programme

•Spelling is targeted in homelearning

Assessment is aimed at improving learning and teaching…

•criteria based assessments

•assessments are mostly recorded in student’s Portfolio For Assessment as teacher/self/peer assessments

•PFA will come home at the end of Term 1

•we are aligning our assessments with the National Standards.

•PFA are used to drive Student-Led Conferences (SLC) in Term 4

•SLC should inform you of progress and achievements over the year

•Meetings are held for whole school closer to SLC to give the whole picture

Lets not have a battleground!

Homelearning has three sections

Reading

Spelling

Maths

Most of this homelearning can be done independently.

You just need to check that it has been completed, sign to say so, test spelling words each night

or join in to make games out of the spelling and maths grid.

The best thing you can spend on your children is

TIME!

4 – 8 March

Sleepover one night in the Hall

Aimed to build cohesion in class

Teachers and students gel as a unit

Get to know each other

Olympic Pools for deep water challenge (swim & survivie)

Kayaking in Olympic Pools

Teachers arranging other activities for the rest of the week e.g. Frisbee Golf, Pirate Hunt on Kaiti Hill

•Personal Learning Goals

•Parent help

•Head lice

•Newsletters & email

•Swimming

•Social media, blogs, websites, Facebook

Everything we do is aimed at raising student achievement and making Awapuni School a place where children love to learn and learn to love

Please ask any questions you have of us…

Your child’s teacher will now be in their

classroom – please visit them now and say hello!