Welcome to Teacher Only Day.

Our Agenda for Today: Prayer Digital Stories: Stories of other schools and their curriculum journey. Questionnaire: *Evaluate parent responses. Vision / Mission Statement: *What is a mission / vision statement? *Look at curriculum Document. *Look at examples of Vision Statements. *Look at our current Vision and Mission Statement. *Develop New Plymouth Seventh-day Adventist Vision / Mission statement. VALUES: *Look at curriculum Document. *Values statement. *Where are these values in what we do here at the New Plymouth Seventh-day Adventist Christian School? *Evaluate virtues programme / slot into values from curriculum PRINCIPLES: *Look at Curriculum Document *Where are these found in what we do here at the New Plymouth Seventh-day Adventist Christian School? KEY COMPETENCIES: *Look at curriculum Document *Where are these found in what we do here at the New Plymouth Seventh-day Adventist Christian School?

Digital Stories

Red Beach School Curriculum Story

TeAwamutu Rosetown Curriculum Story

East Taieri School

Staff Questionnaire:

What would be happening in your ideal school?

Parents: -presence of the Holy Spirit -name of Jesus on Every Child's lips -Christ centred approach to learning -No bullies -No put downs -Children implementing boundaries -Values -Fundamentals of education

Teachers -supportive -*interaction between all stake holders (BOT, parents, families, teachers, teachers, children) -Teachers connecting with all students. -confident students -eliminate distractions -stimulated

Staff Questionnaire:

What really matters at school? What should be at the heart of our school?

Learning Development God Focus Relationship

discipline respect trust

Students Teachers

Staff Questionnaire:

What would you like your child to have learnt by the time they leave this school?

-A living relationship with Jesus Christ -Goal Setters -How to learn to access knowledge -ICT -Knowledge at level in all curriculum areas -Skills in: self management, control, thinking -Knowledge in God's word -moral values

-know they are valuable -work ethic -how to relate appropriately to others -Distinguish between right and wrong.

What aspects or student achievement would you like our school to focus on?

What special character or strength would you like our school to focus on?

What areas are being taught well in our school?

What could we improve upon?

Staff Questionnaire:

Encourage under achievers Excellence

Real source of everything = God Sports Gifts

Academic achievement

Grandparents day Parents day

Bible virtues

Literacy Numeracy

Bible Virtues Social relationship

More sports

ICT studies (advanced Computer prog)

Are there any community issues that you would like your school to focus on?

What curriculum areas (subjects) do you think need emphasizing?

What skills do your children need to be learning?

Staff Questionnaire:

Solution: Write notes in homework social evenings (book fares, meet the teacher)

Visit elderly care for the environment Awareness of drug and violcence.

Full staff PD - 2009

Spelling / science and tech literacy

-writing -handwritign

Good communication and resoning. Decision making based on God's word

Body development / balances

Thinking and symbols.

Bible life skills

Rub out!

What is a Mission Statement?

A mission statement focuses on what the company is now.

It focuses on today.

A statement of purpose.

A self definition of what the school sees as its reason for existance.

MISSION STATEMENT

New Plymouth Seventh-day Adventist Christian School Mission Statement. (What are we currently doing?)

We are committed to connecting students to Christ and developing the whole child, by: -Providing a safe and stimulating learning environment -Fostering / encouraging positive caring relationships that demonstrate Christian Virtues -Attaining Excellence and -Becoming Life Long Learners.

GOOD BETTER BEST, NEVER LET IT REST, UNTIL OUR GOOD IS BETTER AND OUR BETTER IS BEST!

What is a VISION?

A VISION statement focuses on what a company wants to be.

It focuses on tomorrow.

A desirable state the company wants to be in, in the future.

What we are aiming to achieve.

VISION New Zealand Curriculum VISION What we want for NZ children.

New Plymouth SDA Curriculum VISION What we want for our children.

Confident

Connected

Actively Involved

Lifelong Learners

Positive in their own identity Motivated and reliable Resourceful Enterprising and entrepreneurial Resilient

Able to relate well to others Effective users of communication tools Connected to the land and environment Members of communities International citizens

Participants in a range of life contexts Contributors to the well-being of New Zealand ﾖ social, cultural, economic, and environmental

Literate and numerate Critical and creative thinkers Active seekers, users, and creators of knowledge Informed decision makers

Educating for Excellence Now and for Eternity.

VALUES

Excellence, by aiming high and by persevering in the face of difficulties Innovation, inquiry, and curiosity, by thinking critically, creatively, and reflectively Diversity, as found in our different cultures, languages, and heritages Equity, through fairness and social justice community and participation for the common good ecological sustainability, which includes care for the environment Integrity, which involves being honest, responsible, and accountable and acting ethically

New Zealand Curriculum VALUES

NPSDA School VALUES (Where are these in our school today?)

-"GOOD, BETTER, BEST ..." in all our curriculum areas. -Teachers to promote this in all learning areas and activities. -Make this visual in workbooks and wall displays.

Wall displays, books, library, curriculum areas, WALTS, class activities IT room, Bible stories (worship), playground, social studies, classroutines, virtues.

Te Reo Maori, children and families, curriculum integration, greetings in the morning for Roll Call, Cooperative learning groups

Science (recycling), Health, Grouping for PE, Cooperative learning groups.

BIBLE, virtues, Christianity, Certificates, lunchtime recognition certificates based on the virtues.

PRINCIPLESNew Zealand Curriculum PRINCIPLES

NPSDA School PRINCIPLES

High expectations

Treaty of Waitangi

Cultural diversity

Learning to learn

Community engagement

Coherence

Future focus The curriculum encourages students to look to the future by exploring such significant future-focused issues as sustainability, citizenship, enterprise, and globalisation.

(Where are these in our school today?)

"GOOD BETTER BEST..." This also needs to be focussed on and made more visual in all our curriculum planning! Evidence of this in planning should then become a part of Teacher appraisal.

Make this visual! WE need to develop this, place Te Reo around the room, more awareness needed around our school, more Tikanga action songs, Titi torea games, Marae visit necessary - consent required first.

Social studies, cultural day, Certificates, homework books, assessment,

rewards, pre/post formative assessment.

Self assessments, workbooks, goal setting, presentation

PE, Road Safety, excursions, homework, general knowledge.

This needs more focus at our school. We currently have this in: NIE (Newspapers in Education) / Current Events / News updates in discussions Elections. We need more Current Events and General Knowledge built into our curriculum. Project work for our seniors would also need to be a focus for our new curriculum.

Coherence is built implicitly into a curriculum that is thematic based. In other words where all learning areas (as much as possible) are integrated around a common theme. For example: TOPIC: Insects. Literacy writing: Report writing on a chosen insect / Maths: Counting insects in a given area and creating a graph of daily observations. At present this can work into the senior room but is proving more difficult in the junior room unless future time slots are arranged for release.

KEY COMPETENCIES

New Zealand Curriculum KEY COMPETENCIES

NPSDA School Key Competencies (Where are these in our school today?)

Thinking Using language, symbols, and texts Managing self Relating to others Participating and contributing.

Thinking is used at our school however will also need to be a continued area of future development. Areas to include in our planning would be: -DE Bonos thinking hats. -Thinking Keys -Multiple Intelligences. This would ensure that the Key Competencies are Encouraged at our school.

Show and Tell, Reading programme. This would also need more encouraging and a time slot in the daily programme to be dedicated to reading of various signs around the world our children live in. Beach signs, road signs, bike signs etc.

We encourage this at our school through: -having children look after their own hats, shoes, uniform, pens, book bags, homework books. -Also through various signs around the school. Boys and girls toilets have signs which ask our children if they are tidy and clean. This would also need to become a continuing focus for our teachers to encourage students to do.

We encourage Relating to others in our virtues programme and our Bible Programme. We have in the past used Peer Mediation for the senior school. This could be something we re-focus on for the future.

We encourage participating and contributing through Sports and PE. We encourage students to remember that People are more important than winning. This will also however need to be an ongoing focus for our students.

EXTRA THOUGHTS

For more information go to: www.leadspace.govt.nzHere you will find the NZ

curriculum and all the digital stories we looked at today and more!