Thank you Farm Cove Intermediate

Today past Sunnyhills students created presentations to share with 73 year 6's. This is to help ease their transition to intermediate.   

Their personalised slide shows and answers to the Year 6's questions was very much appreciated. 

Farm Cove Year 7's will also visit Elm Park and Wakaaranga Primary schools this week. 

Year 6 Sports and Cultural Afternoon at Farm Cove Intermediate

On Monday 4 November, 203 Year 6 students from Sunnyhills, Elm Park and Waakaranga enjoyed the mixed groupings to get to know other students and meet Farm cove intermediate students for a fantastic afternoon.  

The students listened to the rock band, saw past pupils, played games and heard more about the opportunities that are ahead for them next year!

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Elm Park School's Art Exhibition

Thank you for inviting us to your amazing Art Exhibition Elm Park School!

ASL Hui 2019

ASL Hui 2019

Farm Cove Kāhui Ako hosted a two hour Across School Leaders Hui on 5 September at Elm Park School. 

The purpose was to connect and collaborate:

- To diffuse best practice across Kāhui Ako to raise positive outcomes for all our learners

- To develop collective efficacy of our leaders through purposeful collaboration 

Six Kahui Ako attended and shared three slides, they included  a brief introduction to their Kāhui Ako, 

What they have focused on, and what's gone well and what's been challenging.  Experience of Kāhui Ako ranges from 2 terms to 12 years.

Common themes came through, lots of focusing on the soft skills that support 'business as usual' (Literacy and Mathematics).  For example learner agency, wellbeing, oral language and transitions. 

Time spent building high trust relationships is well worth it and critical for establishing a high functioning

Kahui Ako. It was absolutely well worth to run this, to listen and validate our own journeys.  This Hui has resulted in commitments being made towards further collaboration between Kāhui Ako who share similar paths and goals.

Key takeouts:

• Importance of being authentic
• Adding value to our schools and communities
• Getting outside our own CoL - other Kāhui Ako and other agencies e.g. DHB, etc
• Sharing best practice i.e. Pockets of Promise
• Secondary speaking to primary is a big step forward.  Having permission to access and be welcome in other schools promotes collaboration
• Influencers and spreading influence

Next Writing Group Meeting coming up

Farm Cove Kāhui Ako
The next meeting of our COL Writing Working Group is coming up

Purpose:

• Work with Kay Penniall about aligning our Learning Pathway to the Learning Progressions Framework
• Discuss our backmapping findings about Writing from Y1-10

Details:
Monday 12 August 2019
3.30 - 5.00pm
Farm Cove Intermediate Staffroom

Light Refreshments will be served

ASL’s refining our Blogging skills today

Boys in Writing

We have added another presentation to the Sharing Space on the Professional Development page on our website.  Many thanks to Paula Churchill (Sunnyhills Schools) who attended the recent Marshall Diggs seminar on Literacy for Boys.

Paula has edited the presentation and shared her notes particularly relevant in Writing for Boys.  Please see the presentation below.



If you have some notes or presentations that would like to share with our Learning Community, please email us and we can upload.  We are looking forward to seeing this page grow as a resource for our Community of Learning.
Check out the Sharing space here