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.