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· With the change of both full time teachers at the end of 2007 we put off our inquiry unit until term 2 2008 in order for us to bring everyone up to speed with how the Otakou Cluster went about inquiry. The principal and year 7/8 teacher met with the facilitator to discuss and plan our inquiry unit. This unit is currently in progress using Kath Murdoch’s inquiry model, De Bono’s Hats, Blooms, Y charts, PMI and KWL. · In 2007 we installed Schoolmaster and the development of this resource is ongoing. We have begun using it to record assessment data as well as plan our units on. The staff changes meant some of our PD went with the departing teachers so we have been looking to do some inhouse PD to regain what went. · A pod of 12 Laptops was bought at the end of 2007 which are currently being utilised in classrooms as part of inquiry unit. · Principal has planned staff meeting time given to PD around inquiry, thinking tools and graphic organisers · We are utilising Blooms and De Bono’s Hats both in our inquiry unit and for oral language. · The staff have set personal, school and performance goals in ICT which are reviewed each term. · There has been PD undertaken in Term 1 for some staff on web 2.0 tools. We are concentrating on wiki spaces as a way for children to put there work on display as a link to our website
 * Broad** **Bay School****,** May 2008