Once again, our combination of school website and excellent class websites has served us extremely well. We've been able to lead learning, provide excellent communication and superb content. Paulitia Peleti has made an excellent contribution with PENN and the other regular updates have been well done and really helpful. We really do have a wonderful rich online landscape for learning to offer to our learners, whānau and followers.
In 2024 we have:
improved the Manaiakalani Cluster Website
continued with the re-design of the Manaiakalani Website and "family of sites"
audited and improved our own Pt England Class Sites
Innovated with LiveStreaming Assemblies and Events, which has proven very beneficial whilst we have had no Hall for Assemblies during the winter and on wet days. Our LiveStream content is of very high quality and can be navigated to quickly from our school Homepage
Innovated with LoRA and IOT devices to monitor our gardens
Provided regular Principal Updates
The content from the Pt England Website and the Manaiakalani site: http://www.manaiakalani.org/ , continue to be used heavily by people all round the world as reference sites for the way in which we lead learning.
We continue to improve and innovate with Edublogs and have provided usage stats in other parts of this report. Our Development Team is now working on designing and building our own platform for this important aspect of Learn, Create, Share.
The Manaiakalani collection of posts can be seen at https://share.manaiakalani.org/
The Pt England collection of posts can be seen at https://www.ptengland.school.nz/
During 2024 we went through the exercise of going back out to market for our preferred Learner Device. For 2025 we will continue with Acer Computers as our device and after care partner. We will continue with iPads for our Y1 - Y3 Learner Device
We have spent time this year identifying effective in class display units, 180 degree cameras, Classroom Observation AI Software, Learner facing AI Ceative Programmes, Learner Tablet Styluses, and LiveStreaming solutions
A BIG thank-you goes to Dave Winter, and David Clarke for organising the back-end solutions and for keeping us on track. The move to self insurance has been hugely successful and an absolutely enormous piece of work. The stats from this work are extremely informative and will support our work going forward.
Dave Winter, we offer you an HUGE thank-you, as we simply would not hav emade it without you!
As mentioned previously we are simply delighted to be able to offer the same price in Q1, 2025 as we have in 2024.
The PB Tech Portal has worked really well and we've been able to supply and support schools in a very timely fashion. This really is the "best deal in town".
Our partnership with EdPotential has continued to grow. We have been able to add all our Surveys and Class Observations to the data set and now individual student reports working really well. This partnership continues to be very productive and cost effective. I'm extremely grateful to David Clarke, Kiri Kirkpatrick, Georgie Hamilton and Naomi Rosedale for spearheading this work.
We now have successful automation between our Hero SMS and Hapara the Teacher Dashboard.
We have signed up for the MOE funded Te Rito integration programme.
We are working on a way to integrate the necessary asset management items to manage to the nation wide chromebook fleet we support.
During this year we have talked and partnered with
MOE and Google to contribute to the settings for cybersecurity for schools
MOE to deliver an equity provision for families who cannot afford digital devices and connections We have been blessed in 2024 to able to offer this provision out to a potential of 18,000 households up until June 30 this year, after which it was offered as an affordable solution to a lower number of clients.
Thanks Kent for all your work in the back-ground this year integrating systems and making sure that everything was working.
Leigh has done another amazing job as our school's data manager, managing ENROL, Attendance, Assembly, Hero our various Academic Databases and Spreadsheets Unlimited. Thank-You Leigh!
Thanks again, to our Board comprised of Ana Herbert (Presiding Member), Senio Alai, Fatima Fifita, Poasa Moala, Kaue Pakalani and Kelsey Parrant. Our school has been superbly and thoughtfully supported throughout 2024. I am so grateful to all of you.
Thanks so much Board of Trustees, for all you make possible and for the support that for many of you goes back years now!
I simply could not do the work I do for Manaiakalani and our community of schools and learners if the Pt England Board did not support and approve this work. This Board of Trustees is a very generous hearted and faithful group of people continuing to support the innovation that we have carried out over the years at Pt England School and now offer out to many other schools in many other places
I have been especially blessed this year in the way the school has supported me during my spinal surgery and then later in the year when Dorothy and I were given Refreshment Leave for a month. This was a very special gift after 33 years serving the school!
Board Team, God bless you all, -it is a real pleasure working with you all!