Management Appraisal in 2022 has been carried out by Anne Sinclair, who also works with us in the Manaiakalani Group.
All staff have been appraised in accordance with the 2022 appraisal & attestation policies and the NZ Teacher Code of Conduct.
All teaching staff are registered or provisionally registered, and provisionally registered teachers have completed the appropriate programme of supervision.
EEO responsibilities have been met and reference and police checks have been made for new staff employed. We have complied with the requirements of the Vulnerable Children's Act.
The 2022 Professional Portfolio Folder contains the attestation information for all our staff, but as you will discover, is permissioned only for those who should have access to it.
The components of Performance Management in 2022 were:
attestation against NZ teacher Code of Conduct carried out by Team Leaders
managed and shared inquiry into practice
focused walk throughs carried out by management members
reflective learning conversations
research observations and analysis
PLD inputs which include greater opportunity for discussion
CoL Meetings and Inquiries
School supplied supervision along with Manaiakalani supervision
Professional Development this year has been focused on Wellbeing and Reading. The Reading work has been led internally by our own staff, deriving direction from the external analysis ofof the Manaiaklaani Research Team and the development of the RPI.
The Wellbeing PLD and development has been led by the Mitey Team funded by the Sir John Kirwan Foundation. this has been of immense benefit to both teachers and learners.
Our Teacher Inquiry into Practice has been led by the principal, shared with the whole staff and shared publicly on our blogs. Most of these Inquiries focused on Reading and Engagement. This work was seriously affected by COVID-19, so we made our method more informal with timetabled "buddy chats" throughout the year after an introductory focus brief by the principal.
The Manaiakalani Professional Development was carried out via staff meetings, School Leader PLG's, Principals' PLG's, New to ChromeBook PLG's, Middle Leaders PLG's, Digital Intensives and in class facilitation and support from CoL Teachers and Fiona Grant.
In-class observation and research was carried out by members of the Manaiakalani Research Team along with School Leaders who were trained for this purpose, under the supervision of the Research Team. For more detailed information on this project and its associated professional development, please visit http://www.manaiakalani.org/
We have sent 2 teachers, each term to the Manaiakalani Digital Fluency Intensive. This work was able to continue online, right through the COVID challenges and was a huge success.
We were not able to send any teachers to Incredible Years, this year.
During 2022 all staff have been involved in Learn Create Share PLD supplied internally and by Manaiakalani.
Two staff members have been in the Manaiakalani Innovative Teacher Programme this year.
Five staff have been members of the Manaiakalani Class OnAir Team this year.
Three staff were CoL Within or Across Schools Teachers and attended all CoL PLG meetings.
All staff participated in our COVID organisational and wellbeing focused staff meetings, both online and F2F.
All staff participated in the New Zealand Histories PLD and in the Mitey PLD.
Although we planned Learning Journeys for this year, the only one we were able to carry out was the Cook Islands Teacher Summit.
We are planning further learning journeys for 2022
Once the Omicron Wave occurred, our major focus became the effective organisation and wellbeing of staff and tauira and the development of flexible ways to keep the school open and the tauira learning. I would like to congratulate our Board, Staff and Management Team for an outstanding job keeping learning available and accessible and attending to the needs of our families, as well as doing an amazing job of looking after each other. Our Board is to be thanked and congratulated for the way they have cared for our staff and community of learners this year.
We have been SO blessed to have been fully staffed all year, even through the Omicron Wave. It hasn't been easy and we've had our choices constrained but we feel extremely fortunate. We have also been incrredibly fortunate with the good will and felxibility and kindness of our staff. I feel our school has been extremely successful during this time and its a real credit to our staff.
The support of these staff by our own Management Team, Team Leaders and Board and the support from Manaiakalani and Tāmaki Community Development Trust has made an enormous difference to our capability and has meant our service to our community has been excellent.
As mentioned in my introduction to this report we have increased stress from the number of traumatised and seriously anxious families we have to work with.
I wish to thank all staff most sincerely for your commitment to inclusion, compassion, sympathy, patience and love.
It's a tribute to all of you that once again we again got through the year without a single exclusion or suspension! Well done indeed.
Toni, Garth, and Kent; another incredible year of service and a great team effort!
We have really needed each other's skills and abilities and the way these have complemented each other is a real success.
Really great job Team!
Special congrats and recognition go to Toni Nua who has had year long health challenges but has soldiered on through and continued to serve in an amazing way.
Another big thank-you goes to Andrea Tele'a, who duriing her "year off" picked up the work Toni was unable to do in Term 1 and got us underway for the year and put a huge effort into the pastoral care of both our staff and our students. Fa'afetai tele lava Andrea!
Digital Learning/Creative Space
Hannah West began in this role last year and has just gone from strength to strength.
The job has included:
P.E.N.N
delivery of our Y3 - Y8 Extension Programme
delivery of integrated Digital Learning lessons, to produce digitally capable children who can work independently in their own classrooms.
Working with external organisations to bring expansive learning opportunities to our learners
We unhesitatingly recommend the continuance of this Board funding position.
We also recommended in previous years that the Board to fund a Support Staff position to do some of the daily monitoring and management of the school ChromeBook Programme. Shanaiah McCarry & Ana Va'afusuaga have carried out this work under the support of Leigh Flavelle & Fusion Networks. this has been a real success and we recommend the Board continues to to support this.
Sports
This is our 11th year of having a full time Sports Co-ordinator and we have been so grateful to have this operating as we entered another strange year and had to do so much of our physical in house. As mentioned earlier in this report, we had 6 months without our Sports Teacher, which gave us ample opportunity to discover just how valuable this position and and the person are!
Tyson and Timmi have continued to support the programme as they have done since 2017 and we recommend that along with continuing to fund the programme as a whole, that the Board continues to fund these two extra positions. We note that Tyson, who has found life challenging due to health issues, is a real 2life inspiration for our Tamariki! Tyson's contribution to online learning and then Bubble School in the "times of COVID", have been hugely appreciated!
Programme results are summarised in the curriculum part of this report and in detail in the Programme Report section.
We recommend the continuance of this programme
Library
Leigh Flavelle as manager and Doreen Fester as Library Assistant, have looked after our again Library in 2021. The Library did not see as much use as it has in the past, but as we reawaken a more normal school experience, we support the continuance of this organisation.
It is recommended that this Board created solution should continue.
The Library Report can be found HERE
Student Care & Management
The use of this resource was discontinued in 2022 as we spent our effort employing a Home Visitor, Haare Kutia, to try and encourage whānau to get their children back to school. This did have a positive impact and I suggest that if necessary, this is something we could do again in 2023 if a similar set of issues emerge.
The eNablers Team continued in 2022 to co-ordinate and support the Digital Learning work, Maker Movement, te reo me ona tikanga Maori, family financial support, sport/PE and school technical support. This group has met at 7:30 on Wednesday mornings, when we were able to do so. This meeting has been attended by Garth, Russell, Jackson, Kent, Leigh, Hannah, Donna, Sally and Helen. This continues to be a very successful co-ordination method and between us we have put on some outstanding events. Our gigs this year include the School Picnic, Film Festival, Families @ Pt England, Fun Days & larger Visitor Occasions.
Maker Space/CRT
Jackson Vogt took over this role in 2016.
I have reported on this role in the Curriculum Report and Jackson has reported in his own report.
The Maker space continues to be an important centre for development in our school
This programme has been very beneficial for our school and our children and has grown some really remarkable and effective partnerships which were elaborated in the Curriculum section of this report.
Maker Space Report available HERE.
We recommend that this position continue to be supported by our Board of Trustees.
School Network/Tela Laptops/Classroom Desktop Support
Under Kent's supervision, Ana Va'afusuaga and Shanaiah McCarry have carried out this work as Tier 1 Tech Support for our school, which has helped us enormously whilst it has helped them pay for university. This has been of huge benefit as children have been in and out of school and between them along with support from Roz and Leigh they helped so many children and families to stay connected to their learning.
We recommend the Board continue this role and support.
Special Needs Organisation
During 2022 we continued to have Part Time Special Learning Support Programmes carried out Jenni Clarke and Helen Squires and supported by Child Support Workers. Along side this we had had our anchor programme of Quick 60 . Irene Wilson has carried out this work in 2022 and as in past years, we have found it to be very effective. We have also staffed a repeating Reception Class for New New Entrants. This has also been very successful and we recommend to the Board that we continue with this raft of support.
Special Needs Programme Report HERE
Support for Curriculum
During 2021 the Board made a unit available for Curriculum Coaching and Support. In 2022 we awarded this to Helen Squires. We recommend that this continues into 2023
SWiS
Jordan Tino has continued as our SWiS worker in 2022 and has done an absolutely outstanding job. Thanks Jordan, for your love and support for so many of our tamariki and their whanau. We love working with you!