Rainbow Maths lesson Wk 11

Reaffirming my MIT challenge

I have booked in 2 MIT release days as I realised how fast the end of Term 2 was nearing! It has certainly been busy being back in the classroom teaching face to face. Once we moved to level 1, all of my 20 students had finally returned to school. Needless to say, writing reports has been a challenge considering the fact that we haven't seen some of our students for 7 weeks! I have been able to continue initiating ENGAGE games with our Year 2 children on a daily basis, which has been a bonus especially with the start of winter when there have been some rainy days. All the students are engaged and are obviously having fun. Their favourite game is pass the kiwi and another teacher has now stepped up to take one ENGAGE session per week as I was busy doing JAM tests... The overall goal of implementing ENGAGE games with my priority learners has continued to be successful, however I would like to go back to having a smaller group to work with on a regular basis rather than the whole class as I feel it is more effective. I will trial this in Term 3. Another reflection I have made is after creating a website for other teachers to use called ENGAGE gifts, I would like to add videos of me teaching the children, and the children interacting with each other so that a focus on language accumulation can be achieved.

I wish I had a pirate suit

Honours award...

We were so excited to learn that Mr Russell Burt (our school principal at Pt England school) has received an HNZM award! This is an acknowledgement from the Queen's Honour's list for 2020; for his services to primary school education. We are so very proud of him and he was honoured at a special whole school assembly.