Reflective+Practice+Tm+2

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** Personal Highlights/ Reflections/ Successes. **
• The range of fun activities and learning that the children have been involved in this term eg Connections, farm visit, circus,skyping Scotland etc •Performing my roles and responsibilities well. Eg Duffy Co-ordinator ( co-ordinating the Duffy Books, the Preschool programme, Grandparents Reading, continuing contact with Rotary of Havelock North and Books in Homes in Auckland). A visit from Jacqui from Auckland coordinator of Duffy schools was very positive with a glowing oral report. I have continued my role as Lead Teacher of Mathematics. I have been available for assistance and have also updated the Numeracy wiki on Riverslea wiki regularly with resources, ideas. PLD and planning as well as links to many valuable sites. I have provided resources from PLD sessions I have attended. I have continued my roles as Preschool liaison, NZEI rep and Staff BOT representative, including EEO officer. I have been available for guidance on Wikis but need to wait until all teachers have set up their children's wiki pages to further progress in this area. ( I am available for help in this area also). • Contact with whanau/ parents over their children's learning eg through the wiki pages. Also regular meet and greets after and before school I have recorded weekly/ daily conversations, interactions with parents/whanau about their child over the term.

** Student Highlights/ Successes. **
•Sports such as school sports, Hakinakina Rippa Rugbyand the Bike Track activities. •Duffy Books, Duffy Theatre, Grandparent's Reading •Whanau and Buddy interactions in the school •Preschool Visits •Learning new apps on the ipads • Progress in Reading, Mathematics and Story-writing •School Trip to the Farm and skatepark. •Student Teacher for 7 weeks, Mr Twinn •PMP,Life Education Trust visit, Inquiry on Connections •Skyping Mr Twinn's Dad and Mr Twinn in Scotland •Greg Murphy Formula one Race car driver •Te Reo Kori and Nga Toi •The Circus visit

** Personal Challenges **
• The disruptive behaviour of 3 of the children in my class. One boy improved and then regressed when a new major behaviour problem started. He then left but other boy is back to many of the old behaviours eg swearing, hitting others, throwing things. • Keeping up to date with new ICT and changes. Generally handle new things but not the setting up if eg computer settings go wrong.

** Student Challenges **
•Some children have found the behaviour of a few children disrupting and have adapted so that they ignore negative behaviour and focus on positive behaviour and rewards •Learning new skills eg literacy, numeracy and on the ipads. These have mainly been positive challenges but the children have needed lots of support. •Responding positively to changes in class programmes to help all children be flexible and be able to learn in different ways.

** Writing **
There has been a lot of progress with the children's writing in Room 1 in Term 2. By having a Teacher's aide to help for half an hour the independence of the students has increased immensely. Most can locate or spell their own words. I am using phonics and spelling programmes as well as modelling and 1 to 1 assistance. I have had success with Dave Burgess's hooks for writing such as Mystery Hook and using Imaginative words and props eg a hat saying I was a "whatwhat' and students had to describe a what what and what they did. I will continue to use and extend these as well as use ipads more for writing eg Write about it, Puppet Pals, Comic Life. I have introduced Tony Ryan's Thinking keys eg Different uses eg a shoe a plate, a flying saucer, a hat etc. Most students are largely writing independently as required by National Standards. I hope to have more ideas after attending a summit in Brisbane in Australia in July where Dave Burgess is speaking.

** Reading **
All the Students in R1 have progressed at various rates in Reading. Whiore is 1 year above National Standards. Boyden has gone from below NS to at NS. Van Hemara,Hineawe and Naz have moved 4 levels this term and are still working towards NS. Te Orihana, Shaolyn, and Maraea have moved 3 levels. They are below in NS but making progress with extra support and reading with the Teacher's aide. This will continue in Term 3 to further advance their reading skills and levels. Hineawe and Maraea came into Riverslea in Term 1 at low levels in Literacy and Numeracy. They are still accelerating with extra support from the Teacher and the Teacher's aide. Shaolyn and Te Orihana have also started to move more quickly so their support will continue to help further acceleration of reading levels. I take Whiore and Boyden each individually to accelerate their progress and teach to their individual needs. Whiore needs work with story comprehension of interest vocabulary. Boyden also needs to consolidate new vocabulary and reinforce word solving skills as well as fluency. I will continue to take these students individually this term. Lukus is special needs and working at well below NS. He is still making slow progress and has moved up 3 levels in Reading this term. He works with the Teachers aide at Reading time and also does Literacy on a 1 to1 basis with her focusing on individual skills. The Teacher's aide also assists Lukus with Writing and he has made progress in that area also. Parekawa and Hohepa have moved up 2 levels in Reading and are working towards National Standards. Maika and Nga Kaari who were new entrants T1 are making very slow progress. They are going to a voluntary Teacher's aide for alphabet and consolidation and school readiness skills. These are also reinforced daily in class. They also work in a group of 2 in Reading with the teacher. Then reread with the voluntary Teacher's aide.

** Numeracy **
I have continued my role as Lead Teacher of Mathematics. I have been available for assistance and have also updated the Numeracy wiki on Riverslea wiki regularly with resources, ideas, PLD and planning as well as links to many valuable sites. I have provided resources from PLD sessions I have attended. I have completed a Maths Action plan, in consultation with the Staff and based on the Charter target. We have also set targets and will see what needs new staff (yet to be appointed ) have that need to be considered. Indicators of success will be an increase in Maths progress results both at Mid year and the end of T4 in classroom assessment data statistics and achieving the Charter targets set. Teachers have indicated that their are improvements in Maths levels. These will be assessed and added on the data wall T3

** Inquiry **
I have introduced the new children to the process of Inquiry and developed Inquiry with the students that have been at school since last year.We had a very successful Inquiry based on Connections ( refer Inquiry T2 wiki thread under RTC thread). I want to further increase the understanding of the Inquiry process by the students and have them demonstrate that understanding in their work and discussions.This is over a year period. It will be assessed using Solo Taxonomy. The Inquiry process will also be guided. Learning buddies are also being used to help students with this development.

I have incorporated PB4L in my classroom with restorative conversations and community circles being an integral part. It is a well being for success programme that involves positive behaviour. I also includes WITS ( Walk away, ignore, tell someone and make a statement eg"Stop it I dont like it") I find that gives students successfully a voice to express their dislike of someone's behaviour and it working well. We have started using Sweet As Skillls every week to reinforce with the class and school. Eg Looking after our School,Using good Manners. Sweet As stands for - School With Empathy Edging Towards Aroha and Strength'\.

** Personal **
I have kept up to date with my personal RTC wiki ( lbennettteacherregistration), the Numeracy thread on the Riverslea wiki, the children's wikis, the website R1 page, Miharo's blog and the class twitter. For PLD I have investigated more new apps for children's learning and have incorporated some of these into the classroom. I still need to reinforce and extend these as many children are at beginning stages of Literacy and need 1 to 1 help. I want to keep continuing my learning journey in developing proficiency in using technology both personally and in the classroom. This will include ipads, apple computer, wikis, blog, websites, any new equipment introduced and will relate to both programmes and equipment. I also want to continue to connect with educators around the world on Twitter to develop new ideas and extend my Students learning in all areas holistically. Eg Go to Australia ( July holidays) to attend an educational 2 day summit (Student's Engagement,Learning and Behaviour) which includes "Teach like a Pirate." ( Dave Burgess-American teacher, motivator, author) His books have great ideas on motivating Students and accelerating progress. This has helped increase my students writing progress this year. I wish to continue this and extend into other areas of the curriculum and holistically. Other educators I am connected to on Twitter include Rich Allen(USA) ( attended his conference on "Fun in the classroom and memory retention" last year in Hastings). Brett Salakas ( Australian founder of #AussieED chat- an Education chat that I go on every Sunday for an hour with educators from all around the world . Examples of topics are : Literacy in the classroom; Coding in the curriculum; Teacher motivation and ideas etc). Also Craig Kemp a NZ Teacher leading ICT in a huge school in Singapore, speaker at uLearn 14 and founder of another educational chat that I go on #what is school. Also Don Wettrick from USA who's book Pure Genius encourages independence and Inquiry learning in Students. As well as Professor Mark Weston also from USA who's book The Learning Edge talks about integrating ICT into the curriculum whilst still maintaining the curriculum and proficient teaching.

** Wikis **
I have still been available for guidance on Wikis but need to wait until all teachers have set up their children's wiki pages to further progress in this area. ( I am available for help in this area also).I will also assist with RTC wikis if needed. I can help monitor both Teacher and Student wikis, assisting with content, format, adding items to their own or the students in their classes wikis etc