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Name of School: St Brigid’s Name of lead teacher: Deborah Charleson

Milestone Report # 4 6th September - SMS session (School Master), navigating and recording information in Religious Education. 18th September - Introduce goal setting booklet to teachers. Discuss possible goals and look at results from old goals. Teachers to set goals over the holidays. 20th September - SMS session (School Master), navigating and recording information in Running Records. 16th October - Goal setting for ICT this term. Share what everyone is working on and what we need (support, resources etc) to achieve these. 23rd October - Discuss how we are going with our personal and class ICT goals, success that we are having and any problems that have been encountered 6th November - Revisit personal and class ICT goals to check our progress 13th November - Report on Tony Ryan workshop and ideas that we can use in our classes. //(Prinicpals & Lead Teachers)// 31st October - Positive Computing for Parents and Caregivers
 * __Staff Meetings__**
 * __Cluster Workshops__**

22nd November - Elmgrove School visit to look at Inquiry Learning 29th November - Port Chalmers School visit to look at Inquiry Learning

//(Teacher Workshops)// 31st October - TKI Workshop (Deborah C attended) 8th November - Powerpoint Workshop (Trish, Lucy, Michelle, Deborah C)

21st November - MovieMaker Workshop (Deborah W, Lucy, Michelle, Deborah C)


 * __Personal Goals__**

//Goal achieved// //√// //At every meeting ICT Professional Development is reported including information about which staff members attended which courses and what the courses were about.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I can navigate successfully around both of these websites and have found them very useful.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have found this site very useful.//
 * Chris Hogue**
 * Continue to report to the BOT at each meeting about ICT activities.
 * Become familiar with the school and cluster website.
 * Use LeadSpace regularly

//Goal achieved// //√// //I have continued with this goal from last term.// //Goal achieved// //√// //This is a major undertaking but every week I have been updating the website.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have enjoyed attending the Hands-on Teacher Workshops as they have helped to reinforce what I know and I have a better understanding of where the teachers in my school are up to their learning in these specific areas.//
 * Deborah Charleson**
 * To integrate ICT use into classroom programmes more effectively.
 * To continue to improve the school website and keep the information on it relevant and current.
 * To attend all ICT workshops so I can better support my colleagues.

//Goal achieved// //√// //I really enjoyed the session on PowerPoint// //Goal achieved// //√// //The children have enjoyed working on these tasks.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I know what is available on the website and can navigate around it much better now.//
 * Lucy Fleming**
 * To attend Professional Development sessions when provided.
 * To prepare and monitor tasks for the children to work on when word processing/paint.
 * Become familiar with the school website (www.stbrigidsdn.school.nz)

//Goal achieved// //√// //Yes have become more familiar with navigating around both of these websites.// //Goal achieved// //x// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have found the learning from this year very helpful in class.//
 * Deborah Whitty**
 * Become familiar with the school website (www.stbrigidsdn.school.nz) and ICT website.
 * Continue to take part in applicable workshops to build confidence and knowledge.
 * Apply my learning to classroom teaching.

//Goal achieved// //√// //I have become more familiar with the website and am confident when navigating my way around it.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have attended professional development workshops for ICT cluster and found them beneficial in further learning and am looking forward to continuing with these.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have found that I need more time and support to continue to develop my skills with this programme.//
 * Michelle Purton**
 * Become familiar with school website.
 * Participate in professional development.
 * Further familiarity of Microsoft Word (selecting tools, borders, etc)

We decided to have the same staff goals for everyone instead of different personal goals. · Log on to the ICT Cluster website every week and become familiar with it. //Goal achieved x// //– needs to continue next term// · Write a comment about ourselves on our member profile. //Goal achieved x// //– needs to continue next term// · Use thinking tools in the classroom. //Goal achieved// //√ - but will still continue next term//
 * 1) **Staff to set personal goals with reference to the cluster web site**

//We need to continue to work on becoming more familiar with the cluster website and also write our member profiles. We are continuing to use the thinking tools successfully in the classroom during our integrated curriculum topic and in reading and writing to record their ideas.//

· Be able to access School Master from your laptop both on and off the network. //Goal achieved// //√// · Be able to navigate your way around the student records to find information about the children in our class. //Goal achieved// //√//
 * 1) **Staff to set School Management Goal (if applicable)**

//We have been working hard on getting to grips with our SMS. We have worked together during special training mornings before school and have continued to consolidate this learning in our own time as well.//


 * 1) **Individual Goals – Class related**


 * __Class Goals__**

//Goal achieved// //√// //The children have enjoyed using a variety of websites to search for, locate and use information about our current topic.// //Goal achieved// //√// //The children can successfully incorporate their own photos and pictures found on Clipart and using the internet into word documents and PowerPoint.// //Goal achieved// //√// //Children are continuing to develop their computer skills.//
 * Room 5 (Chris Hogue & Deborah Whitty)**
 * Use websites, related to integrated curriculum, to enhance learning.
 * Insert photos into word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
 * Continue to use computer suite at least three times a week.

//Goal achieved// //√// //The children have continued to develop their skills and have grown in confidence when publishing their work.// //Goal achieved// //√// //Yes, most children can correctly save their work into their own folders.// //Goal achieved// //√// //We have been using the computers at least 2 to 3 times a week.//
 * Room 1 (Michelle Purton)**
 * Become more familiar with using Microsoft Word.
 * Save work correctly into our own folders.
 * Use computers at least 2 times a week.

//Goal achieved// //√// //The children have a new inquiry based learning task every fortnight.// //Goal achieved// //√// //This has worked well because of parents that come in three mornings a week to supervise children in the computer suite.// //Goal achieved// //√// //I have been doing this with my class two times a week as part of my maths.//
 * Room 2 (Lucy Fleming)**
 * General word processing skills. Using topic based tasks to help children use various aspects of //Publisher// and //Paint//.
 * Sending a group of children to the computer suite every morning to work on //Paint//.
 * Logging on and finding //Maths Adventures//, children should select an appropriate level/stage for themselves. Children should also log off and shut down the computers after exiting the programmes.

//Goal achieved// //√// //The children have been using the computer at least three times a week to work on various programmes such as Super Stars (CD Rom) for reading, Microsoft Word for writing and publishing and Paint for Topic.// //Goal achieved// //√// //The children are able to successfully log on and off on the computers.// //Goal achieved// //√// //The children have improved in this area.//
 * Room 3 (Deborah Charleson)**
 * Use the computer at least three times a week.
 * Log on and off correctly
 * Develop mouse control.

//Goals - We have worked well achieving our goals this term. Next year we will look at concentrating on our goals over two terms rather than over one as this will mean we have more time to consolidate the new learning that children and we are working on.//
 * Summary**

//Thinking skills and inquiry learning – this has been our schools focus for the last 2-3 years so we are quite far down the track in this regard but we are continuing to add to our resources as more information becomes available through the ICT Cluster.//

//Planning – we currently do most of our planning on the computers and with our SMS training we are looking at recording all of our assessments on the computers as well next year.//