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 * Anderson **** ’s Bay School **
 * Lead Teacher: Sarah Dickson **
 * Milestone Report: May 2008 **
 * All staff at Anderson’s Bay have made goals on the staff wikispace. This is a private space. We also have access to our Inquiry planning on this site and plan to develop this so we have other ICT and Inquiry resources online in the one spot. All staff have made and reflected upon their goals in these areas; Personal, class and school master. Many teachers have commented that having specific goals has made them accountable. They have made time during their busy teaching week to develop individual skills. Many of these goals will need to be consolidated over the year, as learning continues for both teachers and students. Examples of goals are; Develop Inquiry learning using the Kath Murdoch model, Display Inquiry stages on the wall and in a class journal, Develop Questioning techniques with students, Develop a wikispace with the class, Enter SMS data, reform in report format, develop integrated curriculum plans that can be used for assessment on SMS, Develop rubric for assessment purposes etc… **
 * Term two goals are looking more closely at the development of rubrics with children – in particular Questioning which is part of our Ministry Target. Staff have received in total five ICT/Inquiry meetings in terms one and two. Two staff members attended the Rotorua conference. One teacher has used examples of curriculum development and homework examples for direct change within the school. Some staff attended a Tony Ryan day and all staff have attended at least one workshop provided by the cluster so far this year. Two staff members have had a one on one visit from the facilitator. This helped them to learn and consolidate new useful tools for classroom application.  **
 * All staff committed themselves to teach three Inquiry units this year. For three teachers term one’s unit is the third Inquiry they have taught. For the other staff members this was their very first! In the first term, we hosted cluster schools to see our journey and progress. We found this to be very successful. Other teachers could see the work in our wonder walls, journals, topic books, powerpoints and movie maker presentations. We shared both the positives and negatives with other cluster members. We are looking forward to viewing other schools in their journey. This is an excellent way to reflect on new practice and thinking. We have developed an Inquiry group of five teachers. These teachers had two meetings over term one to develop term two’s plan. They will meet again in term two to develop a plan for our next Inquiry. We felt it was important to have a range of teachers from all levels in this planning group as we are teaching whole school Inquiry units. Next year with the lead teacher moving out of the area we are already inducting a new lead teacher who will take over this role for terms 3 and 4 with the support of the previous lead teacher. This new lead teacher will also lead the Inquiry planning team. The purchase of fifteen laptops has really enhanced our ability as a school to provide excellent accessibility to all children. We are currently setting up a booking system within the school for class laptop use. Plans are underway for a new library/Information/Technology room in the near future.  **