Parent Meetings

Parent meetings are arranged to follow 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5 years. We (the junior syndicate team) decided that it made sense for the whole junior school to follow the process through. The hope is that we will have higher parent engagement with their students learning.

I have met with many parents. We cover the latest assessment and how they are going with reading, writing and maths. We set goals as a team and give them any support materials that will help.

It is always a really positive time and I love how we always leave feeling like a team. It is a great positive experience to work with parents and the child.

Reflection: Keep working on having these happen, even outside of the markers.

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.