Jan-Marie Kellow

We attended the cluster workshop day, hosted by Coley Street School and were inspired and sparked into inquiry life by Jan-Marie Kellows views on Inquiry Learning. She spoke of the Theory of Inquiry and how to implement this within our classrooms. How it fitted in with the new curriculum and in particular the key competencies. She gave us some reference website to help us on our journies and inspired a fresh outlook at Inquiry.

Jan Thomas Facilitator Visit

Jan visited us on the 1st of April 2008 as part of our Professional Development. We were both released to work with her and we discussed the journey that Coley Street has taken getting to where they are now with Inquiry Learning. This reinforced what we have learnt during Learning at Schools, Hooked on Thinking, Professional Readings, and personal Professional Development and gave us practical examples and advice in implementing Inquiry Based Learning at Ohau. Term 2 we are starting our Inquiry Journey with a teacher guided inquiry focus on Adaptation.

Solo Taxonomy

During Hooked on Thinking PD, Pam and Julie introduced us to SOLO Taxonomy. This has been accepted as one of our models by all staff and can be seen as being used throughout the school. Some examples of which are:
- questioning
- comparing and contrasting
- describing
- fertile questioning

LEARNING TO INQUIRE - INQUIRE TO LEARN