Curriculum Delivery
Learn Create Share pedagogy in a digital learning environment
Core subjects: Reading, Language and Maths will be delivered for 1 hour daily. We are committed to ensuring that these subjects have time allocated to them, and that they are planned for and taught in a one to one digital learning environment, as part of our Learn Create Share
pedagogy. Where appropriate other learning area inquiries are integrated into these core subjects. The goals and outcomes of this
learning can be viewed by students, whanau and teachers as part of our focus on visible learning, and progress reflected on and used for further learning development.
With learning available online for students curriculum areas can be accessed at any time.
Literacy learning should include:
Reading, writing and oral language components
Digital literacies and cyber smart practices
Small group teaching
Collaborative and individual tasks
Commenting and feedback to and from others students and the wider global online audience
Work published online
A focus on higher order and critical thinking and key competencies
Focus on creativity
Maths learning should include:
Coverage of all strands
Focus on problem solving
Discussion of strategies
Critical thinking and argumentation
Number knowledge and basic facts
Collaborative and individual tasks
Commenting and feedback to and from others students and the wider global online audience
Work published online
Planning & Support
Toni & Kent are the Learning Co-ordinators for Pt England School. They will oversee Team and class programmes and liaise with contractors and facilitators. They will maintain an overview of how learning is delivered at this school. They will act as convenor of the Learning Pt. Committee which is made up of Russell, Garth, Toni, Kent, Helen Sq, Trish, Rob,Angela, Kelsey, and Hannah. Russell, Garth, Kent & Toni will also be responsible for in-class support and monitoring of the Pt England Planning and Learning Models and for the overall plan of staff mtgs, scheduled professional development and feed back to teachers.
We will continue to provide whole team release as regularly and for as long as we can afford and organise. We have kept Fridays free of Withdrawal Programmes so that we can use our specialist staff as release teachers. We would also use that opportunity to provide team training for our specialists so that all staff benefit from this arrangement.
We will follow a cycle of planning and training, followed by trial, practice, support and feedback, followed by analysis and evaluation, giving rise to further planning and training.
General
We still want teachers to exercise their judgement about the curriculum as they plan and teach. Plan for variations where appropriate for your class. When teaching, vary the time as appropriate. The Learning Principles are a guide to underpin our programmes and a way of shifting the focus in our planning and teaching.