Week Six Term 2 2015

Our Term’s Living and Learning Focus is

CHANGE WHAKAUMU

Our School Values

Tina Justice, Pono Truth, Aroha Compassion, Manaakitanga Hospitality and Tapu Respect for the Environment

lived out in our Motto

Courtesy Care Co-operation Courage

Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s  #L2L

Key Competencies*

Capabilities for living and lifelong learning

The New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies: • thinking • using language, symbols, and texts • managing self • relating to others • participating and contributing.

St Joseph’s Catholic School Takapuna Learning Model

 

TO KNOW       What Do I Know?                    What Do I Need to Know?

 

TO DO                         What Do I Need To Do?          How Do I Do This?

 

TO USE            How will I Use What I Am Learning?  What Other Ways Can I Use It?

 

WELCOME TO OUR LATEST NEW ENTRANTS AND TO THEIR FAMILIES

Miguel, Hamish, Cassandra, Anna, Dylan and Francine

Key Competencies*

How do schools teach key competencies?

The key competencies are at the core of all the teaching that goes on. Your child’s teacher thinks about the key competencies when planning their teaching programme, the resources they use, their choice of language and topic, and the role that they get children to take in their own learning.

When it comes to key competencies your child’s teacher takes on both a teaching and coaching role. They use their expert knowledge of how students learn to build the key competencies into all learning areas.

Your child’s teacher will:

• encourage your child to find and answer their own questions and problems
• sometimes answer your child’s questions with another question, to get them thinking about how to find out an answer by using they skills they already have – rather than just providing the answer
• coach your child in specific skills that build on your child’s current skills in each of the competencies
• support your child to set and monitor their own learning goals
• use their knowledge to work out how to help your child to set their own ideal next learning steps
• design home learning  tasks (if your school sets home learning) that brings knowledge from home into the classroom (and vice versa)

 (from parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school)

 

 

The Building Programme

Kereru Team Members have been having great fun imagining what it will be like in the new learning spaces. There is no end to their creativity and wishful thinking!

Children think we could fit a gym, a dance studio, a music studio, a massage chair, an insect room, even a swimming pool and ice skating rink in the space that is there!

They can’t wait to get in and see for themselves what it is really like.

 

Progress continues. Final inspections are scheduled before the end of June. The lift is being installed at present.

 

 

Remember it is Queen’s Birthday on Monday, which is a public holiday.

 

Thank you for your prayers for Reagan Lai who is now at home and making good progress. Hopefully he will be able to come back to school for short lengths of time, sometime before the end of term.

 

Ka kite ano!  God bless!   

Phil