Staff Meeting Agenda Week 1

Stoke School Staff Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 21st of July
2009
Notes of Interest:

Agenda: Admin Quick stuff:
• Welcome to Jo and Vairi Student Teachers in Room 10 and 8.
* Reports are due Monday the 7th of September Week 8, please have a go with the report format to ensure it’s going to work before it’s to late to fix.
• Performance Management Observations/Interviews are now Week 3.
• Ann Tolley visits Week 4.
• School Cross Country Week 5, should we have ours Friday Week 4? What is the format this year? Should we run around Greenmeadows as a practice for the Interschool because we can?
• Longterm Plans due Week 2

Discussion:

• Sorting out our Staff Meeting/Syndicate meeting agenda items for this term, items to include (some items may need more than one session):

- Term 3 Topic Plans
20-24 27-31 3-7 10-14 17-21 24-28 31-4 Sept 7-11 14-18 21-25

Taonga- Special Treasures
Social Studies: Understand how the past is important to people.
Mask Parade
Arts: Dance/Drama/Music- Moving through space, pathways and performance. Creating and moving to music.
Technology: Planning and creating masks for performance.

- School Vision: looking at our words and asking ourselves are these student focused, future focused and aspiring, breaking down each word to what it looks, sounds and feels like. Asking ourselves how will we know we are portraying this vision to our students and community?
- Property: Actually getting down on paper what our future property needs may be, for the students, teachers, community. Projecting our roll growth to look at classroom space requirements, looking at how our environment projects our vision, is our environment exciting for the students, is it stimulating, is it future focused, can the teachers easily access everything they need to deliver quality programmes, do we have space to meet with parents/agencies privately, do the itinerant teachers have adequate space, do we have space for the extra programmes such as HPP.
- Syndicate Meetings: do we want time to meet with our syndicates to plan cooperatively?
- ICT: Lead teachers facilitated session on anything?
- Planning Term 4: Looking at our Term 4 Topics and starting an early think about end of year celebrations.


Outcomes:

Holiday Blues ?

I hope you all had a great time in the holidays because I sure did.