Effective teaching and learning principles guide our planning...

Planned Responsiveness…

• Through faith, time, talents, language, taonga, rangatiratanga;

• Culturally sustaining - affirming individuality, diversity, progress & achievement;

• Informed by learner and parent and whanau voice, balanced formative assessment;

• Additional support empowering learners’ accelerated progress and wellbeing.

Planned Approaches...

• Commitment to learning, teaching, family, whanau and shaping futures;

• Changing to suit the context - mixed ability, collaborative, children as teachers, team work, individual, flexible, “just in time”, goals, guided;

• Agentic - Mana motuhake - children having the power to question, respond, understand and contribute to their own learning;

• Literacy, numeracy, Te Reo me ona tikanga - practising basic skills within context of all curriculum areas;

• Reflective - taking notice, ako / teachers as learners, learners as teachers, evaluative.

Planned Experiences…

• Prayerful, meaningful, important, using our talents to be of service, Tuakana-Teina, Kaitiakitanga;

• Fun, engaging, interesting, creative learning from real-life experiences;

• Empowering, challenging, critical, experiential, real, giving to others, active, hands-on;

• Well-paced, child-focused, and responsive to the children’s interests and wellbeing.

Planned Together....in Aotearoa

• Communicating with, for and to each other;

• Learning from our past - planning for the future;

• Partnership - learning new ways with and from others;

• Safe, respectful, our best;

• Caring for our people, our places and ourselves.