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

Please add your information to our Curriculum Index

As a Kahui Ako we are wanting to recognise and highlight our strengths across our four schools. Please go to your curriculum/subject and add your details on the link at the bottom of the page.

The link looks like this:

You are welcome to contribute to this page by adding your information here  

Our get-together 28 March

Thank you everyone for coming to our get-together on the 28th March. It was an amazing opportunity to connect with the teachers from our four CoL schools.

See if you can spot yourself in the photos!

Invitation to Maths Lunchtime Meeting

You are warmly invited to an informal meeting of the COL Maths Working Group on Thursday 28th March

Venue: Meadowlands Shopping Centre Food Court (outside Countdown). 

Date: Thursday 28th March

Time: 12.30 - 1.30pm

Attendees: staff from  CoL schools: Elm Park Primary, Sunnyhills Primary, Farm Cove Intermediate and   Pakuranga College

Look forward to seeing you there!

Martyn, Kim, Anna and Amanda

Invitation to Start of Year get-together: Thursday 28th March

You are warmly invited to our start of year get-together on Thursday 28th March

Venue: Farm Cove Intermediate Hall

Date: Thursday 28th March

Time: 3.30 - 4.30pm
Light refreshments available from 3.00.  

Attendees: staff from  CoL schools: Elm Park Primary, Sunnyhills Primary, Farm Cove Intermediate and   Pakuranga College

Look forward to seeing you there!

Martyn, Kim, Anna and Amanda

Writing Working Group Meeting update 14th March 2019

Food For Thought:

The Writing Working Group met at FCI on Thursday 14th March to discuss the next steps in our inquiry into writing across the CoL.

The members of this group are:

• Pakuranga College: Larraine Barton & Nicola Jacobs 
• Farm Cove Intermediate:  Belinda Withers & Lauren Glass 
• Sunnyhills Primary:Robyn Steel, Sharon Knofflock & Sheryl King
• Elm Park Primary: Mehernaz Darukhanawalla & Karen Allen                                 

Transition Meeting 6th March 2019

Many thanks to everyone who came to our meeting yesterday afternoon.  There was a fantastic buzz in the room with lots of conversation, sharing of insights and updates about our students.
We will be sending out a google form to collect your thoughts on the transition of our students, what we are doing well and what we could do differently.  Your views are greatly valued, thanks in advance for your contribution to our collective understanding.  We look forward to sharing the summary.

Invitation to our Transition Meeting

You are warmly invited to our Year 6 - 7 Transition Meeting

One of the things that we have been working on is how to further enhance the transition of students from one school to the next.  

Next Wednesday afternoon the Year 6 teachers from Sunnyhills and Elm Park are coming to Farmcove Intermediate staffroom to meet with Farmcove teachers about our Year 7 students.  This will be an opportunity to talk informally with the previous year’s teachers about the Year 7 students.  

Venue: Farmcove Intermediate Staffroom

Date: Wednesday 6^th March

Time: Light refreshments available from 3.00.  Discussions begin at 3.30.

Attendees: FCI classroom teachers, Year 6 teachers from Elm Park and Sunnyhills, and interested staff from Pakuranga College

Look forward to seeing you there!

Martyn, Kim, Anna and Amanda

Writing Group Meeting at FCI 20/2/19

Here is our Writing Group Team (due to school camps we have a  few missing).  

Together we will be conducting inquiry into Writing from year 1 to Year 10 with the aim of investigating how we collaborate in the learning journey for our students. 

Today we discussed how our group will work, our purpose, the Spiral of Inquiry process, school visits, and our next steps. 

We looking forward to sharing our journey and ultimately making a positive impact on all our students across our Kāhu Ako. 

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The Writing Working Group Gets Underway!

2018 was a year of setting foundations for the way our Community of Learning will operate.  Now in 2019, we are expecting to see lots of visible actions as a result.

Our first project for 2019 is the establishment of a Writing Working Group.  This group will be conducting a collaborative inquiry into Writing from Year 1 to Year 10 with the aim of investigating how we collaborate in the learning journey for our students.

The first meeting for this group is coming up on 20 February where the group members will be able to meet and begin this process.

We'll all be looking forward to hearing about their findings. Look out for more posts as their work gets underway.