Reflection - Steve - Plans

PLANS

I had a process in mind after our pld and teacher meetings.
So much I wanted to achieve. So little accomplished.
Not actually true but seems like it.
Things I wanted, not yet achieved.
1. ERO reading for meeting, prep for student achievement.
2. Observe Reliever to get a feel for application for position.
3. Appraisal system we are starting to share with staff not just teachers.
4. Ensure communication options are taken up by parents.
5. Go through procedures from the Student Achievement Policy from School Docs.
6. Writing Plan consistency.

Achieved
It was good to spend time not just observing the reliever but getting to 'pop' in to the classrooms, getting a feel for the atmosphere, attitudes etc.
Have a BOT member contacted all families to help them have Seesaw and School Loop.
Procedures checked.
Very 'pleasing' to see the outcomes of JA & C working together to have a confident approach to problems solutions, working together and being comfortable with where they are going (reading), and to see it in action in the classroom, great.

 Outcome: a realisation that my staff are competent, working towards the same outcomes I am. We are a better team than I had thought. My need to achieve/accomplish PLD, procedures, appraisals is more collaboration than me doing. I am not indispensable. Hope I can keep to this.

End of Term 1 Reflection - Judy-Anne

This term seems to have flown by which is quite amazing since in reality it was a long term. I found running Preschool Play dates to be quite challenging as being on show to large groups is outside my comfort zone. It is one of our ways to promote the school though so needs to be done. They seem to have gone well and I think we have a relatively easy 'formula' programme to follow now.

We have used see-saw quite a lot. The children were initially reluctant to post their work without me checking it but are generally happy to do so now. We have good buy in from the parents and often the feedback is really fast. I have made one activity for them to follow and that was really successful. A number of the girls spent about 40 minutes writing that day - they found that they got words underneath their writing so they didn't need to know how to spell everything plus they got pictures to add as well. Some of the boys chose to record their work and made a great job of coming up with good sentence structure and relatively good sound quality.

My big challenge is figuring out how to make ICT an integrated part rather than an end in itself.

Next steps:We need to look at improving the quality of our audio in videos so need to look at what better quality means and then find a way to be recording for our subjects- maybe it will be writing.