Long Term Planning

Te Pihinga's Long Term Plan responds to the developing needs and interests of the students and in response to the YMS Curriculum as set out by the Principal.

My partner teacher and I discuss the direction based on what we know about the students and their needs. Questions are asked at the end of term about what they enjoyed and what they would like to learn about. This is incorporated into our long term planning where possible. Student assessment is also analysed and direction set based on that assessment.

For our weekly planning we have a document where we plan our week, reading, writing and math groups. These groups are based on abilities and need. Each week a new document is created and adjusted. We record learning objectives, notes on groups, priority learners, support and targeted activities in this document.

We keep an active track of our readers through a tracking document. We have a similar tracking document for our math assessment.

We also have a class site which is currently used to help direct some higher readers to a rubric of their learning and to their learning document.