Thank you for a great first week back!

Thank you so much for your support of the Olympiad, it was a wonderful event, enjoyed by all. Special thanks and congratulations to Jono and Tom and the PE Department as a whole for a successful day.

Tonight there is a strategic leadership workshop which will finalize our strategic planning process. This workshop will be attended by leadership and the Board. Thank you for your participation.

Please check out the dates to remember below, there are some new dates on there that are important.

Don’t forget on Monday the new schedules begin.

Please also check the duty schedule for any changes.

Thank you for helping make the Olympiad such a great event for the students.

Please let me know if there is any clarification needed for classroom cleaning responsibilities.

Don’t forget to let me know if you would like support with Mindfulness. It is an expectation to include this in your classroom routines.

Don’t forget to check out room #203 when changing units etc. for great Math and Literacy resources and the room on the 3rd floor for fantastic Science text/readers as well as some resources.

I would like to recognize the teaching assistants who will be doing an ASA for this round, thanks for your support – Snow, Ei Ei, Mabel and Alice. 

I will be returning home to New Zealand for my daughters wedding at the end of next week. I will be returning on the 13th of February. In my absence please direct support needs and questions to Mike.

Have a great weekend,

Sandy

Some valuable takeaways from all of the sessions were:

• Identifying skills from indicators and standards for students’ next steps when grading rather than giving them an ‘overall’ grade.
• Using a one-column child-friendly rubric to provide feedback highlighting these skills.
• Clarifying what some of the indicators meant. For example the difference between a clear thesis and a thesis’ or superficially or competently addressed.
• Identifying SLN and feed-forward for teaching practice. How to teach specific skills based on what the standards mean. How to explicitly teach specific skills in upcoming units.
• Discussion around the consistency teaching thesis statements.
• Moderating in grade-level teams with pre-assessment to inform teaching and plan units.
• Visualizing vertical alignment in terms of skills and standards and student work.

Here is a link to an Assessment Moderation note from the Department of Education in Victoria, Australia. Moderation is not only valuable in writing but in all subject areas.

“One of the most powerful research-based strategies for linking assessment to improved instructional practice is teacher moderation. This process involves educators in a collaborative discussion of student work based on predetermined assessment criteria”

If your teams are interested in moderating for other subjects in ES or SS please let us know and we can support this in your meetings.

PLAYGROUND CLEAN UP – 5L

5L students cleaned the playground this week. Here are a few of the takeaways from this opportunity:

• Setting clear expectations on Monday morning before starting
• Expect to review and clarify these expectations a few times during the week
• Students were assigned into 3 teams: sandbox, sand kitchen, picking up general trash
• We agreed it would take 5 minutes to do this if everyone was helping. 
• The clean-up after lunch will cut slightly into class time because there isn’t a transition time.
• We framed these jobs as a way to be responsible for the school and our toys. Every class will take turns doing this. However, we should still try to leave areas clean as we finish playing there. My class was fearful that other students would try and leave big messes for them to clean up. This wasn’t the case. We focused on this being a team effort from everyone to take care of our space and things. 

Quarter 2 Reports Timeline & Instructions 2022-2023

We will work to basically the same timeline as we did for Quarter 1 reports. 

However, we will peer review our comments, and I will check them before they are entered on Powerschool. Therefore we will write our comments on a Google Document which will be shared with peer reviewers.

Monday, January 16

• Subject blurbs to be entered on Grade Level documents. Thank you for finishing these.
• documents here

Monday, January 23, by 8am

• All comments (Subject Blurb + Personalized Comment = 800 characters max) are to be written on a Google Document and shared with the peer reviewer and Sandy.

Tuesday, January 25, by 5pm

• Sandy will let teachers know comments are ok to be entered into Powerschool.

Wednesday, January 25, by 5pm

• All comments and grades are to be entered into Powerschool. Copy and paste comments from Google Documents to Powerschool

SAMPLES

Reports can be found here

Have a fabulous birthday:

24th January – Ei Ei

25th January – Charlie

29th Janaury – Anshu

MONDAY MATH CHAMPIONS THIS WEEK

These students have earned the Math reward this week.

Herrick -Gr 4N

Sharon- Gr 2M

Emily- Gr 4D

Erik, Amara, Reo, George and Adrian – Kindergarten

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