Friday, March 28, 2008

Our Plan

This promises to be a really exciting year on the ICT contract. We are really looking forward to the Inquiry focus. We worked on a school model last year and are looking to refine this further. Jan is running a staff meeting with both ourselves and St Marys Foxton in a few weeks which will be great.
The Thinking tools aspect is also exciting. Having been to an Eric Fangenheim (Rodin Education -Australia) workshop recently and got a pretty cool framework to work from and are looking at making our own "toolkit" up for this.
We decked out each classroom with a projector this year which has been well worth the cost and have just purchased Mathletics for our 3 more senior rooms which will prove a hit. We trialled this for 2 weeks with our Year 3/4 class and the improvements and enthusiasm was well documented both at school and home. We also leased a few more computers to give each room 5 which has gone down well with staff.
We are continuing to strive with integration across the curriculum with some teachers doing really well and others needing a bit of support, but this is all par for the course.