Mt Albert Kāhui Ako

Writing Work Stream

Refreshed Achievement Challenges

Achievement challenges are shared goals that are identified and developed by a Community of Learning | Kāhui Ako based on the needs of its learners.

Our Strategic Goals:

Set up the environment as the third teacher, saturated with literacy, to make valued learning visible
Improve student achievement for writing at Y6 and Y10
Clear understanding across the Kāhui Ako about how to improve student writing levels
Consistent understanding across the Kāhui Ako of writing curriculum levels.

So What Next?

Scoping and scanning to identify areas of concern and develop strategy using evidence-based theory
Developing a clear understanding across the Kāhui Ako about the pedagogical practices that can significantly improve student achievement levels of writing
Developing teacher knowledge and skills for writing, surface and deep features.
Creating a shared rubric based on the literacy learning progressions
Investigating student dispositions & attitudes towards writing

Mt Albert Kāhui Ako Writing Progressions Developed 2022

Writing progressions Kahui Ako

Sharing Best Practice Conference NZ

On Saturday 6 May, 2023 Six teachers from Mt Albert and Edendale Primary went down to Christchurch to be a part of the Sharing Best Practice Conference. Alongside 300 other passionate teachers and leaders, they built connections and attended workshops around Explicit instruction, Intervention and Dyslexia and Leadership and Change.

There were three outstanding Keynote Speakers; Lyn Stone, Liz Kane and Stephanie Le Lievre. Each spoke respectively about Advancing, protecting and supporting the Science of Reading, The challenge of change- Courage, Commitment and collaboration and high impact instructional writing practices.

Literacy: Why it matters - THE EDUCATION HUBThe importance of literacy is promoting a wide range of outcomes in education and beyond

Literacy and assessment - THE EDUCATION HUBUnderstanding what to measure and how and why to measure it when evaluating students’ learning in early reading and writing

Now I don’t know my ABC - THE EDUCATION HUBThis report from The Education Hub provides an overview of our research findings, including recommendations for how to improve the state of literacy in New Zealand

National Evidence - Pisa results for reading in NZ 2018

Mean performance in New Zealand has been steadily declining in reading (2000-18) .... from initially high levels of performance.

In reading, more rapid declines were observed amongst the country’s lowest-achieving students; in mathematics and science, performance declined to a similar extent at the top and the bottom of the performance distribution, as well as on average.

The proportion of top-performing students (scoring at Level 5 or 6) remained stable in reading (between 2009 and 2018). Meanwhile, the proportion of low-achieving students (scoring below Level 2) increased in reading and science. (Taken from PISA Summary Report 2018 - www.education.govt.nz)

The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS)

New Zealand is involved in several research projects that compare education outcomes between countries. These projects cover different year and age groups as well as different skills and subject areas. The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is overseen by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). This study assesses middle-primary school children’s reading literacy every five years (New Zealand Year 5 students).

(Ministry of Education. (2017). PIRLS 2016: New Zealand’s Achievement. Retrieved from https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/183697/PIRLS-2016-NZs-Achievement_REV.pdf)

In keeping with previous PIRLS cycles and other international studies, New Zealand had a relatively large range in performance between its highest-achieving and lowest-achieving children.