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What measurable outcome does this Year group want to achieve at the end of 2021?
Teachers actively using Hapara workspace
All Year 9 students to be learning with their own Chromebook
Mix of paper and online activities
All Year 9 subject teachers to be delivering lessons with multimodal resources via hapara workspace
Promote the use of school’s website
Create a Year 9 class of 2021 (DEAN) site for ALL communication with students and their whanau
One on one conversations with each of the year 9 students
Academic counseling on hapara workspace - have a slideshow presentation ready for the PST visit
Setting goals in form classes
Bringing Ninni Smythe in to do a circle with all year 9 form classes
BY WHEN? how is it going?
First meeting with Annette: Thursday period 1 - 1 April
One goal:
By the end of the year, all students in my year group, will feel supported in their learning and know where to find all communication with regards to the year group and school, with a focus on attendance.
week 9 kamar concerns and plan
What and How?
Establishing digital sites with all Yr 9 form classes. = PST day (students take control of the meeting by presenting their slideshows)
Teachers communicate with whanau as problems arise.
Get the teachers on board, with how the “referral system works. (Not sending all problems to the dean immediately)
Working alongside the Year 10 Dean, ASM, having alternative Thursdays for co-construction meetings
Communicating with parents with regards to:
homework, how hapara works, vaping, etc. all of these communications are done via slideshows/ or videos. First lot was sent home via email, now only on the Year 9 dean site on the school website.
After 1 APRIL MEETING 3 GOALS DECIDED ON:
After 1 APRIL MEETING 3 GOALS DECIDED ON:
Open line communication with students, form teachers, subject teachers + home
Positive reinforcements a priority utilising the Dean’s fridge -shopping
Attendance goal 85+% for co-hort tracking through Student centre/Dean/Rock On /TTAS
OPEN LINE COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS, FORM TEACHERS, SUBJECT TEACHERS AND HOME:
OPEN LINE COMMUNICATION WITH STUDENTS, FORM TEACHERS, SUBJECT TEACHERS AND HOME:
ALL communication done in 3 ways: shared google docs, Screencastify videos and emails. Got feedback from all parties concerned that it worked extremely well. I had a few parents who came to me in town, identified me, as they always watch the videos that I share on the year 9 dean site. Throughout the year if a parent communicated with me, I immediately responded and tried my best to solve the problem within 24 hours. I got feedback from one dad who had a run in with the school. I then made an appointment to go meet with him outside the school, and he totally calmed down and then actually told me what a privilege it is to have his daughter coming to this school. All whanau, students, teachers and form teachers worked very well in this open line communication. I feel this was a very successful year.
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS A PRIORITY
POSITIVE REINFORCEMENTS A PRIORITY
Every Monday I've sent an email to all staff teaching year 9 to send me the names of students doing well, so I could celebrate them at Wednesday assembly. I then gave them points for this. I also chose a form class of the week, who also got points. If they got over 40 points they get a shopping voucher. In my office I have: T-shirts, books, pens, chocolates and cool drinks. They bring me their voucher, and they can shop. Students are so proud, and it is like a competition doing well, especially the form class. This system seemed to work for most of the students. I also on one occasion got the year 9R class (4 students) (the class labeled as the naughty class) to run the whole assembly. That worked well, as after that on a few occasion 9R was actually the form class of the week. All my assemblies were done on slideshows, and afterwards I would record it, in order for any one in year 9 who missed assembly to catch up on, also for parents to see what is happening in their school life. This worked very well, as students could just go back and listen if they missed something during assembly.
ATTENDANCE GOAL above 85%
ATTENDANCE GOAL above 85%
28 out of 99 students had attendance rate below 85%
This means 28% of year 9's had an attendance rate below 85%
72% of year 9 students had an attendance rate of 85% or above
This year was tricky as many of our students whanau wanted them to stay at home, to keep them safe after lock-down, hence it reflected negatively on our over-all attendance rate.
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