Jan Thomas Visit

Jan came for a visit yesterday. We discussed a range of ideas - here is some of them:
Develop a draft model by end of Term 3
Create a support book for the model with staff by the end of Term 4
Major focus for Term 4 is preparing for Inquiry in Term 1 09
Choose overarching big idea for 09
Choose a schoolwide set of thinking tools in order to develop a common language throughout the school.
Ulearn 08 - select appropriate workshops to help with all this
Planning template to be designed before the end of Term 4 in draft format - once trialled we can then have this loaded on to ETap.

Cluster visit to Muratai School

Wow !! What an inspirational school. We were greeted by a well organised and confident team of students in a powhiri. Ani and Neil did our cluster proud with their response. The students confidently escorted us to our destinations and all students that we spoke to over the day had a reasonably clear understanding of the Inquiry process and could articulate excellent responses to our questions. Students were used as panels of presenters whom we were then able to question after each presentation on different aspects of their individual inquirys. We did get the impression that the school's students had a large proportion of good internet access at home and a good proportion of the inquiry was completed at home with the emphasis in class on learning the skills necessary. We came back to school inspired with some new ideas and approaches to consider for our school.