Community ConsultationThursday 14 October, 2010

Overview• Recap First Community Consultation

• Our Core Business - LearningSurfacing beliefs

• What kind of learning spaces? Environment

• Teacher Appointments

• Progress Update

• Strategic Direction

• Stations - We value your voice

Previously we flew over and took a big picture view.

Progress Update

IT Infrastructure

Uniform

Brand

Design

Enrolment Zone

Enrolments

Furniture

Fundraising

Collaboration

Vision

Educative Purpose

Future Trends

Feedback

•Summary of Feedback

•Located on the School Websitewww.stonefields.school.nz

•Can still add your ideasSurvey Monkey

Landing within the School

Our Core Business ..

Every young person needs to be equipped to seize learning opportunities throughout life to broaden their

knowledge, skills & attitudes, and to be able to adapt to a changing, complex and interconnected world.

Guy Claxton, 2010

Beliefs to Practice

Belief

Principles

Practices

Julia Atkin, 2006

Assessment - What do we believe and value?Assessment information progresses learning

student involvement

Assessment methods inform next steps

Key Stakeholders well informed

Timely

Self assessment

Parent involvement

Goal setting

Running Record - Reading

Beliefs to Practice

Beliefs & Values about learning Principles Practices

•Building learning capacity•Nurturing collaboration•Inspiring curiosity to make meaning

•Broadening horizons - Breaking through

•How will it look like in practice?

e.g. inspiring curiosity to make meaning;

•Build knowledge of the Inquiry process

•Equip learners with thinking tools to help them problem solve

Why? How? What?

Goal Setting

Talents/ StrengthsContributing

Inquiry LearningPersonal bests

Mastery

Making a difference

Thinking SkillsLiving values

Curiosity

Science

Social SciencePhysical Health &

WellbeingTechnology

Innovation

Learner competencies

Practices - What?

Literacy and Numeracy

What makes a learner an effective learner?

Community Ideas

• Looking forward to the future• Curious• Problem-solver• Can adapt new skills to new situations• Self-assessment• Team-work/ collaboration and team

assessment• Maslow’s hierarchy of need- Learning,

Contribute, Belonging, Sure and Secure• Desire to make a difference• Curiosity• Challenge the boundaries• Compassion• Good listener• Inspiring • Patient• Understanding • Respectful• Inspired• Confidence instilled• Ability to have a different opinion

be openreflect

questionwonder

think

respectcompassioncontribute

Goal Setting

•About Mastery and Personal Bestsvs

•Performance (faster, neater, better)

•Effective Goal setting has a significant impact of student outcomes Hattie, 2010

Showing Progress

Goal Setting

Talents/ Strengths

Foundation LearningContributing

Inquiry LearningPersonal bests

Mastery

Making a difference

Thinking SkillsLiving values

Curiosity

Science

Social SciencePhysical Health &

WellbeingTechnology

Innovation

Learner competencies

Practices - How

Young minds are as much social as individual. It seems impossible that schools can continue to resist this growing

pattern of social interaction in the ways learning and assessments are structured.

Guy Claxton, 2010

What values would you like to see reinforced?

Community Ideas

• Respecting others• Open mindedness• Respect• Collaboration - Participation• Love of learning• Confidence to speak up• Integrity• Equality• Great> ‘Wego not ego!’• Compassion• Respecting people• Caring for each other• Friendly atmosphere• Honesty

RespectCompassion

Honesty

Goal Setting

Talents/ Strengths

Foundation LearningContributing

Inquiry LearningPersonal bests

Mastery

Making a difference

Thinking SkillsLiving values

Curiosity

Science

Social SciencePhysical Health &

WellbeingTechnology

Innovation

Learner competencies

Practices - What

Making Meaning

Inquiry Process

• Building Knowlege

• Connecting and Thinking to make meaning

• Applying Understandings

Inquiry

All in Balance

• What is powerful to learn - What

matters?

• What is powerful learning - building capacity to learn

Knowing what to do when you don’t know

what to do

Developing the necessary conceptual understandings for learners to make sense of

their world

Learning Spaces

Designing Agile Spaces

•What do you think the learning spaces need to look like, sound like, feel like to enable the type of learning we have been describing?

Y chart

‘Think big and be brave’ to think beyond your own school

experience...

Purposeful SpacesFit for Purpose

• Cave space(independent)

• Watering hole(Group, collaborative)

• Camp fire(large group, class)

Prakash Nair

Mary Featherston, Interior Design Process

21 Century Schools

A Learning Hub

Authentic Spaces•Open, Social, Real Malan, 2009

Jasmax

Appointments

Community Feedback

• Make students curious, learning by doing• Inspire students to love learning• Encourage student directed learning• My teacher back in 1986 was the best. He just

believed in me! – You are the best!• Can adapt teaching style methods to the learner.

Therefore know how the child learns• Ability to be respected by students• The ability to be looked up to• Having fun with children yet providing guidance• Adapting to each child and recognizing strengths

and weaknesses. Make the weaknesses the strengths• A teacher that helps you think for yourself• Guidance• Explains clearly• Answers questions• Caring• Have lots of patience and be a good learner• My best teacher had respect of all for no effort. A

passion for his job and an ability to make everyone achieve more than they thought possible. 25 years on and I still remember how they helped me to learn

Rigorous Process

Made 8 appointment

range of experience

Expertise covering all areas

Induction

Progress Update

Start Date

Resources

Enrolments

After School Care

Travel Wise

Green Star

IT Provider

Research

Assessment

Strategic Direction

• Focus Group WantedIf you are interested in being involved in strategic planning discussions, standing for the Board next year.

• Please record your email and contacts on the sheet.

• First meeting 3 November, 6.00pm

Bus Stop Stations 20 min

1. Extra curriculum activities investigated.What else would you like us to investigate?

2. Strategic Planning focus group - Please sign up if you are interested to take part.

3. Have a sit in the School chairs, try out the beanbag prototype

4. Logo development movie

5. Have a play on a sample mobile device? Would you pay $12 a month to lease one for your child?

6. Mathletics - Would you be happy to pay? what do you think?

7. Learning Environment - What are your thoughts?

8. Informal Question and Answer with any Leadership or Establishment Board member.

Contact

office@stonefields.school.nzwww.stonefields.school.nz09 527 7721

Next meeting scheduled for 23 SeptemberWhat time suits you best?Next meeting we will land and be ready to answer more detailed questions you may have.