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Name of School: Anderson’s Bay School Name of lead teacher: Sarah Dickson

Milestone Report # 4

1. Staff to set personal goals with reference to the cluster web site Staff have attended all staff meeting sessions which were held every 2 weeks during term 3 and this term will be held every third meeting time. All staff have either a wikispace or protopage running for their classrooms. The senior syndicate are using Inquiry to work through an unit looking at why famous people are remembered in particular Captain Cook. This unit have been very successful with many fantastic questions from the children and opportunities to research. During this unit they have used Blooms, Thinkers Keys, powerpoint and movie maker to enhance the learning. Middle and Junior syndicates are using a variety of thinking strategies and tools in their day to day classroom programmes such as Blooms and 6 hats. Six staff attended a Powerpoint workshop and seven staff will attend a Movie Maker session later this term. We are now busy planning for our showcase which is on the 28th of November.

Staff continue to make developments in this area. We have had another training session with Derek this term and the management team will work with Derek to ensure our Summative Assessment booklet is on School Master for next year so we can record this digitally. This area will be an ongoing focus for next year.
 * 1) Staff to set School Management Goal (if applicable)

Many staff wanted to access and use appropriate web sites to back up their teaching and learning. Many classrooms are now using Rainforest Maths, ABC and BBC sites to do this along with increasing general children’s skills to search on internet. All classrooms have created a wikispace or a protopage with their classrooms. This has been a huge success and very beneficial for staff, children and families.
 * 1) Individual Goals – Class related

Summarise: Six staff attended Tony Ryan’s workshop day in Oamaru – “The Magic of Thinking” and “Schools Unlimited”. This day was very beneficial and inspirational. Sarah also attended the ILT conference in Invercargill during the term 3 school holidays. Again this was an excellent opportunity to listen to outstanding speakers such as Michael Pohl and come back fresh with new ideas and thinking. Staff are buzzing with enthusiasm as they continue to develop and overcome ICT obstacles like uploading numeracy results into our school master system. Many classrooms are using a number of ICT, thinking strategies and Inquiry learning in their classrooms. We are looking forward to teaching our three whole school Inquiry Units next year and also to more cluster development and consolidation.