Week 7

Stoke School Staff Meeting Agenda
Tuesday 15h of March
2011

Location: Room 10 (ICT Sharing)

Notes of Interest:

Agenda:

Admin Quick stuff:
• Next week Staff Meeting in Room 9 facilitated by Andrew around ICT troubleshooting the ipads, cameras etc

Discussion:
• SCHOOL TARGET:
SO, SO WHAT, SO WHAT NOW!
We have decided that writing is a development need across the school.
Why do we think it is a need?
Our OTJ judgments using the National Standards indicated:

As Percentages for Writing End of Year:
Yr 1 Yr 2 Yr 3 Yr 4 Yr 5 Yr 6 Total Total at or Above
Above 14% 17% 6% 15% 3% 17% 11% 51%
At 21% 48% 50% 42% 38% 40% 40%
Below 55% 31% 32% 38% 49% 26% 40% Total Below and well Below
Well Below 10% 3% 12% 4% 10% 17% 9% 49%
Total

Summary:
Fifty one percent of our students are at or above the National Standard in Writing. Forty nine percent of our students are below and well below.

Concerns: 49% of all of our students are below or well below the National Standard in writing.

Drilling down across the school: The graphs below on the left demonstrate gender results and the graphs below on the right demonstrate ethnicity.











Analysis of the above graphs shows that 60% of all boys are below or well below the national standard in writing. 35% of girls are below or well below the national standard in writing.
In ethnicity 57% of Maori students are below or well below the national standard in writing. 43% of NZ Europeans are below or well below the national standard in writing.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
Some things we have already started, bring along ideas to add to an action plan to develop writing at Stoke School for everyone and in particular for boys and Maori students.

Actions to be put in place to support the development of writing:
• Continued staff development with Joy Allcock and Deb Grover around Switched on to Spelling.
• Purchase the next stage of resources to support the implementation of Switched on to spelling.
• Gain consistency across the school around the Writing Process.
• All students books will display “WALTS”, in their books.
• Share exemplars with the students and get the students to articulate what their next steps are.
• Ensure the students are at the parent teacher conference to hear what their next steps and goals are for the year.
• Share the school writing process with parents.
• Differentiate the writing process for different levels at appropriate stages to keep pace with the National Standards.
• Staff Development around the MOE resource “learning through talk”, building on from previous years work. Direct correlations are made between the ability to share ideas verbally and the ability to share ideas in writing.
• Staff will meet every term to moderate narrative samples and we will investigate the opportunities of moderating across our cluster.
• Celebrate success by sharing writing within the class, at Assembly, sending home as learning stories.
• Each term award the Liz Shaw Memorial Literacy Award for excellence in writing.



ACTION PLAN: STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS 2011
Strategic Aim: All students are able to access The New Zealand Curriculum as evidenced by achievement in relation to the National Standards. Target Area
Literacy- Writing
Annual Aim: To raise the rate of progress for all students deemed at risk of not achieving at the level of the National Standard for Writing. Students Group

Gender Boys

Ethnicity Maori

Student Year 1-6




Annual Target: The identified Male, Maori students in every class will be working “At the National Standard” in Writing.
Baseline Data: Analysis of school-wide data in December 2010 identified concerns across the school in Writing. Analysis of the school-wide data shows 60% of all boys are below or well below the National Standard in writing. In contrast 35% of girls are below or well below the national standard in writing. In ethnicity 57% of Maori students are below or well below the national standard in writing. In contrast 43% of NZ Europeans are below or well below the national standard in writing.

ACTION PLAN
What will be done When by Who is responsible? Resources allocated
Use the data obtained from the Nat Stds testing in 2010 to identify 2 students achieving below the national standard from each class as Targets. Jan 2011 Sarah Davies
Use the data obtained from the Nat Stds testing in 2010 to identify 1 student achieving “At the Standard” from each class to monitor baseline progress. Jan 2011 Sarah Davies
The Targeted students will complete a writing sample to inform current teacher of next steps in line with the Literacy progressions. Term 1 Class Teachers
Sarah Davies
Staff Meeting time to familiarize with sample, interpreting data and identifying areas for support
Continued staff development with Joy Allcock and Deb Grover around Switched on to Spelling.
Term 2 Class Teachers
Sarah Davies
Deb Grover
Joy Allcock Staff meeting time, possibly Teacher release days for training. PD Budget
All identified students will have specific goals and action plans/objectives to develop teaching programmes. Term 1 Class Teachers
Sarah Davies
Deb Grover Term 1 Reporting to parents template.
Develop a School-wide Writing Process. Differentiated at different levels and appropriate stages to keep pace with the National Standards. Term 1 Sarah Davies
Craig Logan
All Staff
Staff Meeting time to share junior process. Develop whole school process.
Share the school writing process with parents. Discuss ways to help your child to support progress. Term 2 Sarah Davies
Class Teachers Parent Information Night
All classes will have ability based writing programmes. Term 1 Class Teachers Staff Meeting to look at set up.
All students’ books will display “WALTS”, in their books. All Year Class Teachers Syndicate Meeting time for set up and review
Ensure the students are at the parent teacher conference to own what their next steps and goals are for the year. Term 1 Class Teachers, parents Advertising in newsletter.
Share exemplars with the students and get the students to articulate what their next steps are. All Year Class Teachers MOE generated examplars
Staff will meet every month to discuss progress of target students and every term to moderate narrative samples. We will investigate the opportunities of moderating across our cluster.
All Year Syndicate Leaders
Class Teachers Meeting time, Cluster opportunities.
Brainstorm with boys, maori students and staff on meaningful contexts for writing topics. All Year Class Teachers Class time
All staff will complete professional development on the Literacy Learning Progressions and National Standards Term 2 Sarah Davies, Deb Grover Staff Meeting time
PD Budget
Staff Development around the MOE resource “learning through talk”, building on from previous years work. Direct correlations are made between the ability to share ideas verbally and the ability to share ideas in writing. Term 3 Sarah Davies
Karena Shannon Meeting time
Purchase the next stage of resources to support the implementation of Switched on to Spelling. Term 1 Sarah Davies Resource Budget $3000
Celebrate success by sharing writing within the class, at Assembly, sending home as learning stories. All Year Class Teachers Class time
Each term award the Liz Shaw Memorial Literacy Award for excellence in writing. Each Term Pete Mitchener
Syndicate Leaders Photo, Certificate
Complete formative assessments to measure progress and report to parents and BOT End of Term 2 Sarah Davies
Class Teachers Standardized measurement tools
Complete summative assessments to measure outcomes and report to parents and BOT to plan for the following year. Nov 2011 Sarah Davies
Class Teachers Standardized measurement tools
Continue meeting with the Maori parent group to develop annual goals. All year Pete Mitchener
Dean Goad
Steve Whiti Maori Budget
Continue to develop the goals from the consultation, i.e Kapa Haka for all, pronunciation lessons for staff. All year Pete Mitchener
Dean Goad Maori budget
Develop programmes around Ka Hikitia to ensure we are developing and celebrating the whole person. All year All staff Staffing for music tuition
Applications to funding agencies to pay for sport fees
Teachers to share ideas within our school and cluster on best practice for teaching our Male and Maori students.
Professional Reading. All year Pete Mitchener
Dean Goad Staff Meeting Time
Interim data
Final data
Recommendations







Outcomes: