First 10 LIT Class

Today we were very excited to see our student project group for their first option class.  They were very excited to learn their teacher for this class would be Miss Mankelow and that there would also be support given to them in this class for Literacy.  Great to see all the girls back and excited about getting started on this journey.

Teacher meeting

What a wonderful start to the year meeting with our group of 40 teachers who will be part of this journey with us. What a great bunch of teachers we have!

Parent/Whanau Meeting TONIGHT

We are very excited about our parent/Whanau meeting tonight!

Thank You Nigel and Anthony!

Thanks to Dr Nigel Calder and Anthony Fisher from The University of Waikato for your time today and your offer of on going support. We are very lucky to have your backing and extensive academic and educational research knowledge 😄

Excitement!

We are very excited to be meeting with University of Waikato education experts Dr Nigel Calder and Anthony Fisher tomorrow to talk through our project and gain on-going support.

Yesterday we really enjoyed presenting where we are at, our exciting visits to Auckland, and our inquiry of thinking to the Head of Departments.  These notes are available under the meeting notes and presentations page.

Feeling Inspired!

We are home from a fantastic two days of visits.  Thank you to those on the Manaiakalani project, particularly Dorothy Burt and Russell Dunn of Tamaki College for hosting us and to Mark Quigley and Linda Ruben from Orewa College.  We are in awe of the amazing work you do to engage learners and raise student achievement.  We look forward to keeping in touch and sharing our journey with you all.

School Visits

We are in Auckland for two days. Looking forward to hearing all about the Manaiakalani project and visiting Tamaki College, Orewa College, and Hobsonville point. Very exciting few days ahead! Also excited to lock Mark Osborne in for staff PD on February 15th.

You can read about our school visits on the school visits page.