Download - 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!