End of Year Celebration

We have had our end of year round-up where a few schools shared the 'Inquiry Journey NO! Adventure' so far. What came out of this?

• The cluster schools have obviously been working hard.
• The schools are developing their own 'vision' of their local curriculum and how inquiry will fit into this.
  
• All the school seem to be at different stages of the process depending on their infra-structure and the openness of their staff.
• It showed that we are all reflective practitioners who as Michael Pohl stated "...are too often too critical of ourselves but are actually doing a good job..!"

Issues directly applicable to Opiki school?

• We have made great progress and should be proud of our achievements...
• Other schools are also contemplating the depth and coverage issues.
• Quality higher order thinking and questioning is hard!
  
• Neil said "...the process should be visually evident and graphically presented to aid pupil understanding, inclusion and relevance.
• Reduce the number of stages but increase the steps within stages (more detail)
• Exemplars of the different stages
• Linked to the school vision and new local curriculum.
• Assessment of inquiry! Skills, process, knowledge, key competencies???

All in all, an interesting day. Finally a huge thank you to Jan Thomas for her hard work this year.