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Milestone Report: 11/07 __Rotary__ __Park School__ Lead teacher: Nicky Hall


 * Personal Goals**

This has been very successful so far. We purchased 3 copies of the Kath Murdoch book (classroom connections) and all staff members quickly became very familiar with it. All classes have finished the ‘Tuning in’ and ‘Finding out’ stages. We are all either just finishing off the ‘Sorting out’ or at the ‘Going Further’ stage. We begun our planning as a whole staff and then found it worthwhile to split into junior and senior to choose the activities. All staff have adopted this style with ease, while the children have been having a great time.
 * __A whole staff goal__: Use the Inquiry approach to teach our ‘Practical, Pretty or Peculiar fashion topic.

- To teach children to use ICT to design an alternative T-shirt design to the controversial ‘tweeny’ designs.
 * __Jan__ – Teach the children to use ICT to publish their novels.

See evidence of this below in classroom goals.

Chris has started this after attending an ICTPD workshop. Visit it @
 * __Chris__ – to set up a wikispace to use in the classroom

The Data projector arrived 3 weeks ago!
 * __Carmel__ – To purchase a school Data Projector.

- To share programmes/ ideas from Kidz Conference 2007 with staff
 * __Nicky__ – To learn how to use the new data projector and take a staff meeting with it.

Staff meeting with data projector was great. Much easier than all sitting around 1 computer!

Have downloaded/ bought comic life programme and 3D google sketch up programme. They are installed on all school computers. During the staff meeting all teachers were introduced to use these programmes. I know that two classes are going to use comic life to produce a comic about our value of the term – Honesty.




 * __Erika__ – for children to use ICT to publish their writing onto their class wikispace.

Most children have done this. This has been a little slow with just 1 class computer. Some of the children were buddied up with senior students.


 * Classroom Goal**

__Jan__ – for children to use ICT to publish their novel writing. This process is under way and children are in the process of this now. The finished products will be shared at the ICT exhibition. -for children to use ICT to design an alternative T-shirt design to the controversial tweeny designs. Children enjoyed using WordArt and ClipArt to produce great designs.


 * __Chris__ –

· __Nicky__ – for children to add a photo to their protopage. This has been completed. Next year during my meet the teacher night I will share the page with the parents and show them how to access it as well as add comments. Most of my children remain with me for next year so the children will have something to share.

We used ICT to produce our fairy tales into picture books.

Slideshows continue to be a popular way to present project/ research work.

· __Erika__ – children will publish a story on their classroom wikispace. This process has begun. Is pretty slow with just one computer in the class.



All teachers will learn to use the new school data projector.
 * School Management Goal**

It arrived two weeks ago and we have held two successful staff meetings using it.

The main focus this term has been to use the inquiry process to teach our ‘Practical, Pretty or Peculiar’ fashion topic. As mentioned above this has been very successful so far. Access to computers for children has continued to be an issue, but there is an end in sight! WE raised quite a lot of $ at our school fair this term. That money is being allocated to a pod of laptops for next year. Carmel (our Principal) is currently researching options. We should have them at the beginning of next yearJ We will soon be meeting as a staff to discuss possible Inquiry topics for next year.
 * Summary**