Our community acknowledge the importance and real desire for students to take part in purposeful topics with a strong link to the community.
As a staff we contributed to the development of our Cultural Mapping Document. We have undertaken learning through Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa developing our knowledge of iwi pakiwaitara and tikangato incorporated into our teaching. We intergrate mātauranga Māori concepts wherever possible. The term mātauranga Māori literally means Māori knowledge and is closely aligned to the period of pre-European contact as it encompasses traditional concepts of knowledge and knowing that Māori ancestors brought these with them to Aotearoa/New Zealand.
We plan for and provide opportunities for our learners to participate in learning across the curriculum following a student centred model. We acknowledge that our students don’t know what they don’t know, and rather than take a fully student inquiry approach to new learning, we guide and support our learners to develop questions for further inquiry as a part of the learning around a given context or theme.
Collaborative planning across the Years 1 - 8 staff enable a clear progression of learning and skills to be developed, aligned with the expectations of the New Zealand Curriculum and enables teachers to share their prior knowledge. Collectively, resources are gathered and clear links to the curriculum achievement objectives and/or progression outcomes are made. From this collaborative plan, teachers then apply their own passions and interests to the direction of the learning. Students are encouraged to share their voice to guide and to co-construct the learning journey and to develop the theme or context to be explored under the constraints of the developed “Big Idea.” Opportunities for assessment are identified and are integrated into the learning journey. Whenever possible a Social Action is incorporated into our celebrations of the topic to enact our vision of “Service to Others”.
Our community acknowledge the importance and real desire for students to take part in purposeful topics with a strong link to the community.
As a staff we contributed to the development of our Cultural Mapping Document. We have undertaken learning through Te Runanga o Turanganui a Kiwa developing our knowledge of iwi pakiwaitara and tikangato incorporated into our teaching. We intergrate mātauranga Māori concepts wherever possible. The term mātauranga Māori literally means Māori knowledge and is closely aligned to the period of pre-European contact as it encompasses traditional concepts of knowledge and knowing that Māori ancestors brought these with them to Aotearoa/New Zealand.
We plan for and provide opportunities for our learners to participate in learning across the curriculum following a student centred model. We acknowledge that our students don’t know what they don’t know, and rather than take a fully student inquiry approach to new learning, we guide and support our learners to develop questions for further inquiry as a part of the learning around a given context or theme.
Collaborative planning across the Years 1 - 8 staff enable a clear progression of learning and skills to be developed, aligned with the expectations of the New Zealand Curriculum and enables teachers to share their prior knowledge. Collectively, resources are gathered and clear links to the curriculum achievement objectives and/or progression outcomes are made. From this collaborative plan, teachers then apply their own passions and interests to the direction of the learning. Students are encouraged to share their voice to guide and to co-construct the learning journey and to develop the theme or context to be explored under the constraints of the developed “Big Idea.” Opportunities for assessment are identified and are integrated into the learning journey. Whenever possible a Social Action is incorporated into our celebrations of the topic to enact our vision of “Service to Others”.
