June 2014

One of our goals in A Block, is to provide our students with real life experiences to base our learning on.

We walked to Gallagher Pools for swimming lessons with experienced tutors in the warm water.

We enjoyed ourselves on Water Fun Day

We practised Kaitiakitanga by caring for Monarch caterpillars, tadpoles and frogs. In spring, we will plant swan plants for next year’s caterpillars and make a pond for our frogs to live in.

We practised our riding skills at Bike and Scooter day with Milly from Sport Waikato.

For Kaitiakitanga in Term 2, we went on a trip to learn how the Zoo Keepers take care of the animals at the Hamilton Zoo.

We got puffed in the Fun Run

On Wednesday 7 May we celebrated the opening of Stage 1 of our new Junior Playground

Writing PD in A Block Louise Dempsey courses in 2013 – Reading and Writing The Writing Book- practical ideas we are all using

Writing PD 2014 in A Block Student Voice Lisa’s Questions: 1.What do you think you are learning? 2.Why do you think you are learning this? 3.How will you know when you have learnt it?

Learning Goals

Classroom Talk Managing Talk - focuses on managing behaviour. Task Talk – focuses on supporting learners to complete the set task/piece of writing. Learning Talk – focuses on addressing an individual or group learning need.

Writing Priority students 10 year 2 students 3 are Target students – Maori boys 2 key areas: Vocabulary and punctuation – assessing writing sample each term to monitor progress One learning goal at a time Students can voice learning goal Giving a challenge – set a time to achieve goal 1E1B1P1A 1 student3 students5 students1 student