connecting with your community
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Connecting with your Community. Waitakere Area Schools Improvement Project 29 April 2011. Facilitator: Bronwyn Collard. Goal / Purpose. To explore different pathways for developing connections with your school’s community The Home School Partnership website The Reading Partnership. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Connecting with your Community
Facilitator: Bronwyn Collard
Waitakere Area Schools Improvement Project 29 April 2011
Goal / Purpose
To explore different pathways for developing connections with
your school’s community
• The Home School Partnership website• The Reading Partnership
He aha te mea nui o te ao?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata!
What is the most important thing in the world?
It is people, people, people!
He aha te mea nui o te ao?He tangata, he tangata, he
tangata!
These people are ‘at home’ in their own
school WHANAU
students, parents,
families, teachers,
staff
The whole family is enrolled in a school
Possible ways of working
• Developing relationships with specific groups (e.g. a migrant community)
• Fostering Oral Language Proficiency• Developing HSP through “The Reading Partnership”
• Reporting to Parents• Working with MoE resources
Home page HSP website
http://home-schoolpartnerships.tki.org.nz/
Code practices
√ in place√ √ working well√ √ √ working really well* not in place
What policies & practices already exist in your school?
Oral Language Resources
4 statements
“The One Hand Approach”
question
4 statements
Key Messages for Parents
• You are your child's first and best teacher.• You have the skills and knowledge to help your child
learn
and grow.• Your wonderful language and experiences are gifts you can
share.• Every moment, for a child, is a learning moment.• Taking part in the Home–School Partnership programme
benefits your child, the school, and you.• It's simple, it's free, and you can do it.• You do need commitment and understanding.• Your child needs what you have to give.
The Home School Partnership website
Literacy Modules to select from
A Reading Partnership
Using first language strengths to develop literacy
Supporting Your Child’s Learning (booklets /pamphlets)
How would you use these resources?
AKO
Reciprocal teaching and learning
Nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora te iwi
With your food basket and my food basket, everyone will have enough.Every one of us has treasures
to share
What may seem simple can often
be the best treasure of all
Every strand is needed to weave the basket
Partnerships through
genuine sharing, hospitality, reaching out to others