Steve - Nov 2018 - Hidden Lessons - Special Character

 

Availl
Akeelah and the Bee.
During the lesson there was a quote, as above.
It stood out as a 'God' moment. We have been looking into our behaviours, our expectations, our issues and how we deal with them, good choices.
Our image of ourselves is one others try to set. As Christians we should be relying on God's image of us. Mistakes will happen, how we deal with them depends on us. We can be made to feel inadequate for making good choices by others. Setting out strategies for when this happens now, will make it easier to talk through these issues with our 'parent'.
Outcome: a lesson on reading became a lesson on self worth, strategies for dealing with issues, the permission given to us by God to be powerful beyond measure. I am allowed to be talented, brilliant, gergeous and fabulous.

Next Step: I set each child the task to send home this quote on Seesaw and discuss it with Mum or Dad when they got home. I also sent home direct the quote and the circumstances.
I pray each child has made arrangements for dealing with feelings of inadequacies,  with their parents so that they feel they are not bound by those things, and have permission to be all they can be.

TBCS - How to record Play based learning? - Judy-Anne

We have been doing lots of play based learning lately and I haven’t quite figured out how to record it all.

Seesaw is great and I am getting some photos but I need to figure out a way to record our learning as we go.

Steve suggested getting Mel in the class at some of these times to have the extra set of hands.
Maybe the children need to do more of the recording for me.
Maybe I can just leave the iPad recording so I can go back and listen to the good language later. Was frustrating that they had such great language being used while they were making their slime and I couldn’t remember the words when I went to put the photos on see saw. Remembered the best word later- they thought it looked freckley, because it curdled.

Even recording things like Karaitiana moving from not wanting to touch the weeds in case there were bugs, to being the photographer, then moving one weed, then carrying our piles of weeds to the big pile. Hilarious really as there are almost as likely to be bugs in the piles as in the soil! He is wandering amongst the weeds and the trees with the best of them now.

Portia’s bouncy ball was a flop because it had too much liquid. She made another one, which worked, but had a lovely time playing with the failure as it was effectively oobleck. When it dried out a bit she asked whether it would turn into oobleck again if we added some more water. We did and she kept playing for ages.

Next steps:
Look into how others record their learning eg number agents and her journal, learning stories.
I wonder if there is a learning story template on see saw?

TBCS - The thing that makes a teacher great - Judy-Anne

https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2018/11/the-thing-that-makes-a-teacher-great-and-data-cannot-recreate/

Next Steps:

Watch TED talks by Sir Ken Robinson

TBCS - Why Play Based Learning - Judy-Anne

http://numberagents.blogspot.com/2018/11/some-things-i-have-learned-so-far.html

Next steps
. Te Whariki should be here. Print and read ASAP
. What Dispositions do I want to focus on?
. Sort room, where are we going to put different areas?

TBCS - Activities to Build Fine Motor Skills - Judy-Anne

http://www.youclevermonkey.com/2016/04/fine-motor-skills.html?fbclid=IwAR2mp1BB387h4sPskfsThqgCfBOOh2Kpw8i_veAkqa3lfjxLIp3YDEKvAAw

TBCS - Succession Planning - Judy-Anne

BOT training with Sue Roughton in Nelson

Succession planning is the strategic, systematic and deliberate effort to ensure readiness, recruitment and retention.


Identify skills desired, put some names on the table, shoulder tap, advertise for skills required- but carefully as you don't want to influence things the wrong way!
Put things a different way- what's in it for you? A chance to learn new skills, and give back to the community

Getting ready- organise a governance manual for new trustees with copy of charter, trustees register, last 3 sets of minutes etc
Do a board skills audit
Send potential trustees to the Aspiring Trustees workshops next term
Discuss the Code of Conduct for trustees, regularly

Worthwhile to send BOT to conference and NZSTA courses

Consider what your outgoing board's legacy will be

Good idea to set up a different email address for board stuff- can be confidential info involved

If others have 500 children but struggle to get 5 parent reps maybe we are doing really well with 46 students and 3 reps.

The importance with which the board is viewed, can be seen by the amount of effort dedicated to board recruitment, orientation and training.
Nathan Garber


The training is certainly available and it is always good. The challenge is to get our board members along.

Lots of things that need to be checked on, to see if they are in place for our new board.I feel we need to up our game!

Action Steps:

Invite potential trustees to NZSTA trainings

Have charter consultation meeting

BOT Spot in Newsletter- let people know what the Board is about

Ensure clear delegations are in place- make recommendations to the board, who then make the decision

Good idea to have two trustees on committees

Ensure new trustees folders are ready

TBCS - Steve - NCA - Special Character

In response to our reviewing our charter, The BOT chair and a Proprietor (same person), and the Principal met with the same equivalent of NCA (Nelson Christian Academy), to look into ways to up-skill all parties, and to formulate a plan for working more closely together.

This meeting was a very good start to developing a better relationship for the Christian Education in Nelson.
The details are under wraps at this stage as both parties realise that any premature information can and could be misconstrued.
I have a very good feeling about how we are proceeding, as this will impact our charter for next year as we look at the bigger picture from more than one perspective.
Updates to come.