1. Otamarakau school
Welcome
To Our
Meet the Teacher Afternoon
Building a High Performing Professional Learning Community 2017
A presentation to the Staff, Board of Trustees, Parents and School Community of Otamarakau School.
Lorraine Northey PRINCIPAL February 2017

2. A country school with a view to the future our vision
Together We Build Life Long Learners
Mission Statement

3. If this is to define how we must prepare our learners at otamarakau School for the future, then there are ‘must haves’ that play a key role in the success that otamarakau School needs to deliver:
Recruitment of the right staff
Who in turn are responsive to and engage in the culture and values of our organisation here at Otamarakau School. Dedicated to corporate image of school.
Visionary Leadership
• Sufficient resources to support key learning contexts with OS School/classroom/mobile devices/outdoor environment/individual and group activities/sporting – physical activity/cultural programmes. •
Collaboration – tapping the innovative capital of staff to share responsibility; design; IT programme and skill development – Finance Management.
•Distributive leadership among curriculum/key learning and teaching initiatives – this builds strength; capacity and sustainability; leaders among leaders; which in turn: - If this is to define how we must prepare our learners at Otamarakau School for the future, then there are ‘must haves’ that play a key role in the success that Otamarakau School needs to deliver: “To Build a High Performing Professional Practice which in turn enhances our Learning Community”.
Dedicated Teaching Staff
Empowered and motivated to grow professionally
• Inquire/Reflect/Review their teaching practice
• Model innovation and take risks • Lead learning
• Identifies and promotes a pathway towards desired goals
• Builds key people to develop their strengths • Models by example; are visible; leads from the front; seeks new learnings
• Is strategically planned and goal driven
• Embraces global, and shared connections

4. THEREFORE MOVING INTO 2017
Key Area 1: Raising achievement and accelerating progress in reading, writing and mathematics at Otamarakau School.
Key Area 2 : Building teacher capability and improve the quality of teaching and learning, including conditions of learning at Otamarakau School.
Key Area 3 : Developing our school as a professional learning community.
WE ARE AWESOME!

5. Key area 1 – raising achievement
Professional Development to build teacher capability.
Reading Together Programme
Community of Readers
Stop, Drop & Read
Tuakana Teina Reading Programmes
Literacy and Numeracy Forums for Parents
Setting up our Makerspace Room in Term2
Yr 7 & 8 Students Leadership Camp to Queenstown
See – Saw / Values – A.R.O.H.A.
NZ Post – Writing Postcards to students at another school.

6. KEY AREA 2 – BUILDING TEACHER CAPABILITY
Professional Development
Leadership / Governance
Ka Hikitia
Ta Taiako
Mathematics / Numicon PD
Community of Learners (Te Puke Cluster)
Staff PD
Literacy PD
Rural Principal’s Conference Wellington
DP Conference Auckland
BOT Workshops
BOT Conference

7. Key area 3 – professional learning community
We are passionate about what we do.
Sharing our learning with other teachers.
Teachers are passionate about helping their students learn.  They form strong relationships with their students.  Are clear about what they want their students to learn.  Monitor their impact on students learning and adjust their approaches accordingly.  Teachers actively seek to improve their own learning (Hattie, 2015).
Ensure professional learning development on evidence based strategies  is made available to all teaching staff.
Embed and refine strategies for measuring progress prior to, during and after the learning session through effective assessments.
Develop student agency through questioning strategies to maximise progress in learning for all students.
Improve the use of technology to enhance learning.

8. THE OTAMARAKAU SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Otamarakau School is without doubt, a school of distinction.
Next Steps: • We will aim to build a High Performing Professional Learning Community. • The key will be to self improve at all that we do through reflection, review and innovative practice, along with increasing exposure to globalisation share connections.
“Anything we do and anything we think about can be improved through creative thinking”. - De Bono
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing”. - Albert Einstein

9. Awesome EVENTS COMING UP…. in 2017
Noho Marae 23-24th March
Reading Together Programme
Community of Readers
Stop, Drop & Read
Tuakana Teina Reading Programmes
Grandparents & Special Friends Day
NZ Post – Writing Postcards to students at another school.
New Teacher Break out room/resources
Literacy and Numeracy Forums for Parents
Setting up our Makerspace Room in Term2
Celebrate Matariki with a school hangi.
Ag/Hort Day
Yr 7 & 8 Students Leadership Camp to Queenstown
Values – A.R.O.H.A.

10. conclusion
2017 is our year to be better than great, it is our year to be awesome
Thank you for coming this afternoon. Special thanks……
The home/ school partnership is a crucial factor in each child’s success and being here tonight is the first step on this journey.
We encourage you all to be involved, know what is happening in the learning life of your child and most importantly, continue to ask questions. Come and see us, come and talk with us, come and be part of your child’s school.
To Our Board of Trustees. They are a Board who understand the importance of your role and take great pride in your position and our school.
Our PTA, thank you in advance for all the work you will be doing in the year ahead. You are a wonderful asset to our school and we thank you for the many hours of self-less work you contribute.