Reflective+Practice+T4

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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  Kiwi Can ( Whaea Cass and Matua Joel), Grandparent’s Reading (Rotary Havelock North),

 -Our Term 4 Song which the students wrote and sang at Prizegiving. Students explored a range of thinking and ideas to construct “The 12 days of Riverslea Christmas.”

 • Continuing to perform 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).  •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).

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Contact with whanau/ parents over their children's learning eg through the wiki pages as well as Face to Face <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and notebook system. ( I write up weekly contact/conversations with whanau and keep a record in my planning.)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> •Staff /support staff morning tea and morning tea birthday shouts.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> •Making and reestablishing connections with new parents of children starting T4 and T1 2017.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Student Highlights/ Successes. **
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">• Sports such as school sports,fitness etc <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Jump Rope for Heart (which I organized) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Duffy Books, Grandparent's Reading <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Whanau and Buddy interactions within the classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and with R3 School buddies. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Preschool Visits and a visit to Banardoes Early childhood centre <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Progress in Reading, Mathematics and Story-writing <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (All students have moved.) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Some Students have moved from below National Standards to At. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Some from At to above) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • New Literacy games and ipad apps <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Kiwi Can ( Whaea Cass and Matua Joel) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Nga Toi – Making Tiles with Matua Manu <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-A and P Show <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-Play Based Learning

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Personal Challenges **
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">• The disruptive behaviour of several of the children in my class. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">( Especially new students that have just started and are not school ready eg Run out of classroom etc) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> I am in regular contact face to face and by notebook with their whanaus and have behaviour plans in place.\

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Keeping up to date with new ICT and changes. Love it but never ending <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Always trying new things and going the extra mile. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (Students are enjoying using the ipads in conjunction with books to assist extend, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> reinforce learning.Have introduced new apps I laernt about from ulearn 16

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> -I am enjoying discovering new apps for learning as students’ progress in their learning.

**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Student Challenges **
<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">•Some children have still found the behaviour of a few children disrupting and have adapted <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> so that they ignore negative behaviour and focus on positive behaviour and rewards. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These Students are still using resilience and are Junior school leaders with their behaviour <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> This has been difficult at times,but they are continually rewarded for doing so.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Learning new skills eg Literacy, Numeracy and Inquiry. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (All students have moved.Some Students have moved from below National Standards to At. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Some from At to above)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> • Not all students are responding positively to changes in classroom programmes to help them be flexible <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and be able to learn in different way.Eg Learning to share and cooperate and work together <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and use key competencies such as relating to others,managing self, participating and contributing eg in play based learning.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> .-Learning new content. Some students are progressing at above <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> and so are reading harder texts which require a lot of word solving skills and comprehension. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Top of Form