Musselburgh+Milestone+4


 * Name of School: Musselburgh School**
 * Name of lead teacher: Emma Barker**


 * Milestone Report # 4**

Weekly staff meetings include ICT Cluster input. § 19th September. Lead Teacher / Principal. Inquiry learning workshop. § October Board Meeting, discussion on cybersafety. § 18th October: Sarah visits St Bernadette’s § 31st October: Lead Teacher / Principal workshop. Brenda Crozier. Positive Computing for Parents § 31st October: 2 staff attended Brenda Croziers workshop TKI. § 14th November: Teacher Hands On workshop run by Richard Murray. ‘Keynote. § 5 staff attending a course § 2 teachers from Grants Brae School visited Emma’s class to see the laptop pod in action

Staff to set personal goals with reference to the cluster web site · Most staff have visited the cluster web site keeping up to date with developments · Staff have attended teacher workshops. (TKI, Keynote) · Staff have had three hour working with Derek, facilitator for School Master on adding numeracy and literacy data.

Staff School Management Goal · prepared a whole school Inquiry Learning unit on Spaces and Places – playgrounds and Let’s Celebrate · Staff have continued to work with School Master. Updated version has been loaded onto Teacher laptops. · Staff have begun talks about revamping the School Intranet site. Visited and viewed St Clair School’s Intranet.

Within Classrooms students are now using ICT tools for the following:
 * Emailing experts
 * Book backchats: http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/bookchat/current.php
 * Digital portfolios
 * Word processing
 * Google Earth to find places relating to Inquiry learning
 * Internet research
 * Viewing DVD’s
 * Recording audio: plays, speeches
 * Kids Pix designs
 * Sharing digital photos

Summarise. Musselburgh have enjoyed all and began to implement some of the ICT ideas learned and demonstrated at Cluster PD and then past on during staff meetings. The Inquiry process is already a part of teaching and learning at Musselburgh so we are using the contract as a time to reflect on how we teach and facilitate inquiry. A network upgrade is schedule for this year along with the installation of data projectors in senior classes. We are also investigating options to purchase or lease more computers for classroom use. We are now at a point where staff can set personal goals that are more productive and defined for 2008.