2014 NZ Curriculum/Reporting/National Standards Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. –Kobi Yamada Historical Position: Much of the national standards framework is now embedded, though there are ongoing needs for further moderation to ensure results are valid and reliable. The school has detailed data about achievement, attendance and engagement; and also, quite importantly, progress. The school has also implemented an intensive physical education/sports programme, as part of the current charter and strategic plan. There continues to be changes to reporting (online report form) and the schedule for this. Targets or Intended Outcomes: o Plain English reporting to parents at least twice a year; o Reporting of school level data in annual reports; including proportion/number of children achieving at, above, below or well below the standards (and within subgroups of Maori, Pacific, gender) o Students, with guidance, able to carry out process of inquiry to meet information needs. o Staff to be able to reliably make OTJ’s for the national standards in all three NS learning areas –reading, maths and writing. Action: When: Cost: Responsibility: Evaluate achievement, progress, attendance and engagement data, through a Board workshop. Identify strengths, patterns, areas for strengthening and any areas requiring further follow-‐up. Develop targets and allocate resources. Make these known. Start of year callback days –Refocus –establish expectations, set goals for term, planning and preparation. Revisit achievement information. Clarify with leadership the need for coherence. Introduce and implement Year 3 of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ programme (see full Strategy) Nov, 2013 –Feb 2014 D, Leadership/Board Jan-‐Feb D Feb -‐Dec D/Ebony/Netball Manawatu Reporting to Parents –All Student Led Conferences to be at the end of term (not week two of the following term). Mid year report to include ‘key competencies’. Professional Learning and Development plan launched. Teachers to revise their ‘theory of action’ for writing. Capture baseline data (using range of tools –attitude survey, writing samples against matrix). Develop full baseline information for teacher inquiry. Establish Feb D/James Feb -‐Dec D /Staff resource (Effective Literacy Practice and Literacy online) to support inquiry. Visit writing hub (tki). Rita Palmer/Murray Gadd support in-‐school needs. Jugyou kenkyuu re-‐launched to support writing inquiry (groups set up according to common need). Monitor, adjust, report. Further revise RSS writing matrix (if required) integrating national standards with Literacy Learning Progressions and also NZ curriculum matrix. To be used formatively by teachers/students. Targeted parent education. Reading –Julie: reading recovery. All parents to observe a lesson. Maths-‐parents of those students in the targeted group, work through workshop with James, on how to support and extend maths learning at home. Think Tanks continue –elearning and Nga Whakaaro (meet four times a year) Mar-‐April Leadership Mar-‐Dec $100 Julie James March -‐Dec $500 D/Leadership Meet the Parent –parents share knowledge with new teacher. Book on-‐line. Feb D/Staff Poutama evenings –Driving Forces of Year 5/6 MLE Feb-‐May D/Elly/Poutama Carry out intensive review of maths curriculum. In preparation for development work in 2014/15. Carry out achievement result testing/accumulate assessment information regarding targets and national standards (maths, writing and reading) for BOT. Workshop with them, as per 2013. Leadership become conversant with the PACT tool. May-‐Nov D/James Oct-‐Nov D/Leadership ? D/Leadership Review/Results/Reflection: