Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

Writing related to the Term 1 Concept of Well being From drafted to publised writing. Where learners are seeing the purpose and process of writing. The opportunity here to share this writing further with our Whānau for them to know where their child is at in their writing and what they could continue to support them with.  Some noticings are that learners are becoming more determined to write the sounds they can hear, knowledge of letter recognition and sounds are continued to be worked on.  The baseline data shows there are some gaps in knowledge of letter sounds and recognition. Which is a good to see where our gaps are in their phonological knowledge.  In School Talk we are a gap analysis shows there is a morning learning to do in all areas Deeper Features and Surface Features in writing.  DData and photo evidence is highlighting the opportunities and the content we can share with our whānau.

  "Although we are already in an undulating teaching and learning phase. I believe that keeping in communication with our whānau is going to continue to strengthen partnerships between home and school".  Anita Unka 2022 My area of focus is to strengthen whānau engagement so that parents and teachers have a shared responsibility to help their children learn and meet educational goals.  Last year was an interrupted year for our all teachers and learners.  It was a disruption of routine, emotions and our teaching and learning momentium. Connecting with whānau has moved from face to face to virtual connecting. The nature of the connecting has being more of an emphasis on the child's wellbeing, verses student achievement.  I don't want to loose momentium with my writing flexi connects this year. As I felt we were able to connect with families to share their child's progress of their writing. The conversation have been student led with the support of the teacher. Althou