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Milestone Report #3

St Patrick’s School Lead teacher: Wendy Friel September 2007


 * 1.** **__Staff’s personal goals with reference to the cluster web site__**

//All staff are site members. Philippa’s and Joanne’s goal is to log into the cluster site once a fortnight, and to look at suggested web sites for classroom use, and personal development. Wendy’s and Stephen’s goal is to log on regularly, and keep updated with all new information, plus look at sites for classroom use and personal development.// //Staff Meetings –// //*Wendy and Stephen report back from training sessions.// //*Discuss progress of classroom and personal goals.// //*Share interesting / valuable sites from cluster web site.// //*Discuss any problems anyone may be having.// //*Share and discuss and plan new goals//


 * 2.** **__Staff Goal for School Management__**

//The school has just joined up with School Master – Student Management System. We have begun training. Our goals are to become initially familiar with the parts of the programme relating to the classrooms.//


 * 3.** **__Individual Goals – Class related__**

//Philippa’s goals – Years 1 and 2 children.// //2. Get a class protopage up and running.// //3. Buddy the children with the senior children to publish their stories / poems on the class protopage.//
 * 1) //Learn about Protopage.//

//Joanne’s goals – Years 2, 3 and 4 children// //1.// //Use web quest sites in Social Studies unit.// //2.// //Learn about protopage and get it up and running in the classroom.//

//Stephen’s goals – Years 2, 3 and 4 children// //1.// //Gain better understanding of the thinking tools necessary for the Inquiry Learning Process.// //2.// //Implement one thinking tool in the classroom.// //3.// //Learn of ways for Web 2.0 tools to help the children learn in the classroom.//

//Wendy’s goals – Years 5 and 6 children//
 * 1) //Become more competent with Power Point presentations and teach the children.//
 * 2) //Become more familiar with Web 2.0 applications.//
 * 3) //Get protopage up and running in class, and have children become competent at adding their work, ideas etc to their pages.//
 * 4) //Help staff learn about, and set up protopage in their classes.//
 * 5) //Use web quests in the classroom programmes.//
 * 6) //Develop a new school website.//

The staff set these goals in July.


 * __Summary__**

//We are all successfully working towards achieving our goals. All classes have now set up a protopage and we are teaching the children – and ourselves - how to use this as a teaching and learning tool. The children are very enthusiastic, and are enjoying using their protopages.// //Rooms 2 and 3 have been using web quests as part of Social Studies and Reading.// //The new school web site is well under construction.// //We are having to look at our computers in the school, especially the server, as in the very near future a considerable amount of money is going to be needed to be spent. Both the staff and students are experiencing frustration at times, with inability to get onto some web sites, and the need for more computers in Room 2.//

//Our next goals, which we are still discussing and refining, are related to inquiry learning. We have begun reading current information, and are discussing how to integrate this into topic work throughout the school.//