Matai Messenger: Week 4 - Term 2

He aroha whakato, he aroha puta mai.

If kindness is sown then kindness you shall receive

Week 4 21 Haratua - 25 Haratua Technology Week Open Day - Tues 22 School Cross Country -Thurs 24 Raw Cooking Demonstration - 3.30pm in Staffroom for those who have signed up - Thurs 24 PAC Opening - Governor General - 1pm - Fri 25 (see email re set up of the day - no p.4 class on the day)	Week 5 28 Haratua - 1 Pipiri 11DRA Assessments - Mon 28 - Thurs 31 13BIO Wainui - one class per day - Mon 28 - Fri 1 Anne Frank Exhibition Training -Tues 29 Cross Country - Canterbury Champs - Tues 29 PUM 8.30am - Tues 29, School starts with p3. Teacher Only Day - Fri 1
*Assembly - WED* Year 12 and 13 joint Assembly - Gym Peer Support leaders in sessions with Year 9.	*Assembly - WED* Full School Assembly - Colours for Sports and Cultural
*Meeting* Student Support	*Meeting* Learning Area - Pedagogical

Information for Staff

1. Information has gone out to staff regarding the opening of the Performing Arts Centre. Just a reminder around the structure of the day and class times (+there is no period 4 class):

The period/break times for the day will change to the following:

Period 1 8.50 - 9.40

Period 2 9.40 - 10.30

Break 1 10.30 - 11.00

Period 3 11.00 - 11.50

Break 2 11.50 - 12.40

Ceremony 12.40 - 13.30 (P4 cancelled for PAC opening ceremony)

Period 5 13.30 - 14.30 (Period 5 roll must be done for school afternoon attendance)

2. All staff need to start thinking about their inquiry for 2018/2019. This is a good chance to consider whether the inquiry you are considering could be done collaboratively.

Collaborative inquiry is when teachers work together to identify common challenges that they might face with a specific class, or within a learning area. It is a chance to share data and analyse it collectively, and put in place strategies that will help with student learning.

The following table from 'The transformative power of collaborative inquiry (2016) by Donohoo and Velasco, gives an overview of what collaborative inquiry is and isn't.

Collaborative Inquiry: What it is and what it is not

What it is	What it is not
A high quality professional learning design	Experimental Research Design
A cyclical and iterative process for improving student leaning and teaching practices	Linear or a checklist of actions
Based on issues related to the learning needs of the students of the participating educators.	Based on topics that determined/prioritized by someone other than the classroom educator
Driven by a central question – in which the answer is unknown to participants	Facilitated by outside experts
Adaptive in nature as new knowledge is generated among team members.	‘Cherry picking’ teaching approaches
Informed by evidence, research on practice and/or the advice of experts	More of the same while expecting different results
Using a variety of evidence – collectively examined at multiple points (not excluding pretest and post test data)	Pretest, post-test data – examined at the beginning and end of the term or at the beginning and end of the school year.
A mindset, a way of thinking, a belief that what we do matters, and that we need to evaluate the effects of our actions on student learning and achievement	A mindset, a way of thinking, that no matter what we do, we cannot reach all students.
Sometimes a muddy path	A clearly laid out path