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Education Review Office Report |
Early Finish 26th July |
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Property & Computer Development |
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Board of Trustees Meeting |
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Dear Parents / Caregivers
PARENT INTERVIEWS AND REPORT AFTERNOON / EVENINGS
If there are any parents who were unable to make the parent interviews and
would like to make an appointment to meet with their child’s teacher, please
make contact with the teacher either by note or with a phone call. For
parents / guardians who were unable to make the interviews, reports will be
posted out later in the week.
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Last Day of Term 2
End of Term 2 is this Friday. School will finish at the normal time.
Term 3 will commence on Monday 25 July. It is important that students
return on Monday and do not extend their holidays by one or two days as most
classes start new units of work on the first day of the term. Students
who are not at school on the 25th are therefore on the “back foot” from the
beginning of the term.
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Education Review Office ReportOver the last four weeks there have
been extracts from our recent ERO Report. This is the last of the statements
from the report. Parents are welcome to the full ERO Report which is
available from school.
Information Landscaping (Gaining information from the
Information Centre (library) and Information Communication Technology –
mainly computers and internet use).
Areas of Good Performance
Focus on essential learning skills: The school’s library and
information services are having a significant and positive impact on student
learning and achievement, particularly in reading. Students are
participating in well-defined curriculum programmes delivered by their
classroom teacher that enable them to develop the essential skills in
finding information in books and researching using the internet. This
approach is developing their critical inquiry skills, research strategies
and introducing them to new knowledge.
Positive dispositions towards learning: Students demonstrate
high levels of enthusiasm for learning. They are able to speak out readily
about their enquiries, research processes and personal reading preferences. The vibrant library information centre environment encourages them to
interact with and select diverse reading materials.
Resource provision: Learning resources are highly accessible,
well organised and increasingly culturally diverse. This wide and rich
variety of resources enables teachers to provide learning materials that
interest and engage students with diverse learning styles. The board make an
annual commitment to financing significant money to provide these options. Quality resources motivate students and enhance their capacity to become
lifelong learners.
Access to the information facilities: The library’s timetable
and operating hours, together with the availability of support staff before
and after school, and during morning breaks and lunchtimes maximises access
for students to books and computers. Effective computer equipment and
systems are available to provide user-friendly access to information
including the monitored use of the internet. Students often use the facility
to study, complete work and for recreational time. They are able to locate
sources of information to assist them with their studies.
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Property and Computer DevelopmentThere is some modernisation work
being carried out in the school resource room during the holidays. As
a result of last years review of science we are not only focussing on
improving the delivery of science (the reason for the considerable amount of
Professional Development work being carried out using the University of
Waikato), but improved resources for teachers and students to use.
This of course means more money being spent on the science budget as well as
improved housing of the equipment. The carpentry work being undertaken
in the resource room is to safely store the school science equipment and
resources. With the increase in computer numbers (we now have sixty
eight computers networked for student use) we need to upgrade the network
backbone to fibre optic and add another server. This will be carried
out in the holidays at a cost of approximately $20,000.00.
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Early Finish to School on Tuesday 26th July (First Tuesday of Term 3)
School will finish at 2:00p.m. to allow Professional Development to start at
2:30p.m. The school’s in-service work will be a part of science being
delivered by the University of Waikato. These afternoon science and
Professional Development sessions are only a small amount of the in-service
work being undertaken by the University in our school.
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Board of Trustees Meeting
The July monthly meeting will be tomorrow at 7:00p.m. in the school Board
Room. Agendas are available from the school office.
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Warren Long
PRINCIPAL
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