How's it gone so far?
- Learning in Room 03
- Most children moving along well. Good learning happening in all areas. There is a group of around 10 children who are reading and writing at or above the level you would expect them to be at. They are producing good results and taking responsibility for their own learning. Some of the others are beginning to move forward and can see how their learning is beginning to move forward and are now gaining success with what they can do. The important thing for me is to keep celebrating the successes the children have. One or two children will need to be monitored closely so that we know where they are at and what can be done to help them. To that end some have been going to Early Lit with Nic McGrath and this has helped with their literacy learning.
- Ipads, Ipads, Ipads
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Now that the children are confident using the iPads we are moving along nicely using them to enhance their learning. Some examples:
This is a video made initially in Book Creator and converted to a movie to show an understanding of the letter W and the sound it makes. Children took photos and added voice.
This video also made the same way shows children;s understanding of adding with 5.
Something I am beginning to explore is the use of the voice recorder for various situations. One of my students misses out words (usually pronouns) in her writing due to her ESOL background. By recording the sentence she needs she can continually replay it and ensure all the words are there in the sentence. The voice recorder could also work as a fluency enhancer by getting the children to record themselves reading their guided reading texts and listening back to see how fluent they are. Something I will be using next term.
- PB4L
- A lot of work done by the team this term both in working with staff to increase their understanding and knowledge of PB4L as well as starting to develop our own PB4L vision. This has included looking at developing our Matrix of behavioural expectations which is well along the way and reflects Porritt Pride while also leading to specific teaching of behaviours. There has been work on developing our incident reporting form as well as making some changes to our reward systems. We have also engaged with whanau with a succesful evening and plan to hold another in Term 3. Our teachers are becoming more comfortable with PB4L and are having more input into it as we begin to develop more resources. We can feel happy about how we are going on this PB4L journey
- EIT Candidate Teachers
- One of this group decided not to continue with her training having decide to look at a different avenue for learning. The others have continued and are becoming a part of Porritt School. Their next big challenge will be their practicum early in Term 3.
- Edge/Reports
- I have been working with Edge (Our SMS-Musac's online version) and slowly getting to grips with what it can produce. We have tried one of the report formats for our mid-year report and feel it worked well. Some would have liked a little more space for comments but Edge limits this. The next step is to look at the end of year report and see how we can use one of Edge's formats for this.
- Most children moving along well. Good learning happening in all areas. There is a group of around 10 children who are reading and writing at or above the level you would expect them to be at. They are producing good results and taking responsibility for their own learning. Some of the others are beginning to move forward and can see how their learning is beginning to move forward and are now gaining success with what they can do. The important thing for me is to keep celebrating the successes the children have. One or two children will need to be monitored closely so that we know where they are at and what can be done to help them. To that end some have been going to Early Lit with Nic McGrath and this has helped with their literacy learning.
- Now that the children are confident using the iPads we are moving along nicely using them to enhance their learning. Some examples:This is a video made initially in Book Creator and converted to a movie to show an understanding of the letter W and the sound it makes. Children took photos and added voice.This video also made the same way shows children;s understanding of adding with 5.Something I am beginning to explore is the use of the voice recorder for various situations. One of my students misses out words (usually pronouns) in her writing due to her ESOL background. By recording the sentence she needs she can continually replay it and ensure all the words are there in the sentence. The voice recorder could also work as a fluency enhancer by getting the children to record themselves reading their guided reading texts and listening back to see how fluent they are. Something I will be using next term.
- A lot of work done by the team this term both in working with staff to increase their understanding and knowledge of PB4L as well as starting to develop our own PB4L vision. This has included looking at developing our Matrix of behavioural expectations which is well along the way and reflects Porritt Pride while also leading to specific teaching of behaviours. There has been work on developing our incident reporting form as well as making some changes to our reward systems. We have also engaged with whanau with a succesful evening and plan to hold another in Term 3. Our teachers are becoming more comfortable with PB4L and are having more input into it as we begin to develop more resources. We can feel happy about how we are going on this PB4L journey
- One of this group decided not to continue with her training having decide to look at a different avenue for learning. The others have continued and are becoming a part of Porritt School. Their next big challenge will be their practicum early in Term 3.
- Edge/Reports
- I have been working with Edge (Our SMS-Musac's online version) and slowly getting to grips with what it can produce. We have tried one of the report formats for our mid-year report and feel it worked well. Some would have liked a little more space for comments but Edge limits this. The next step is to look at the end of year report and see how we can use one of Edge's formats for this.
