Many thanks to the parents and children who came to our Community Consultation Meeting 14 October.

1. Community Consultation
Thursday 14 October, 2010

2. Overview
• Recap First Community Consultation
• Our Core Business - Learning
Surfacing beliefs
• What kind of learning spaces? Environment
• Teacher Appointments
• Progress Update
• Strategic Direction
• Stations - We value your voice

3. Previously we flew over and took a
big picture view.

4. Progress Update
Educative Enrolments IT Infrastructure
Purpose
Furniture
Future Trends Enrolment Zone
Fundraising
Vision Design
Uniform
Collaboration
Brand

5. Feedback
• Summary of Feedback
• Located on the School Website
www.stonefields.school.nz
• Can still add your ideas
Survey Monkey

6. Landing within the School
Our Core Business ..

8. Every young person needs to be equipped to seize
learning opportunities throughout life to broaden their
knowledge, skills & attitudes, and to be able to adapt to a
changing, complex and interconnected world.
Guy Claxton, 2010

9. Beliefs to Practice
Practices
Principles
Belief
Julia Atkin, 2006

10. Beliefs to Practice
Practices
Principles
Belief
Assessment - What do we believe and value?
Assessment information progresses learning
Julia Atkin, 2006

11. Beliefs to Practice
Practices
Key Stakeholders well
informed
Principles student involvement
Timely
Assessment methods
inform next steps
Belief
Assessment - What do we believe and value?
Assessment information progresses learning
Julia Atkin, 2006

12. Beliefs to Practice
Parent involvement
Self assessment
Goal setting
Practices Running Record - Reading
Key Stakeholders well
informed
Principles student involvement
Timely
Assessment methods
inform next steps
Belief
Assessment - What do we believe and value?
Assessment information progresses learning
Julia Atkin, 2006

13. Beliefs to Practice
Why? How? What?
Beliefs & Values
Principles Practices
about learning
•How will it look like in
practice?
•Building learning capacity
•Nurturing collaboration e.g. inspiring curiosity to
•Inspiring curiosity to make make meaning;
meaning
•Broadening horizons - Breaking •Build knowledge of the
Inquiry process
through
•Equip learners with thinking
tools to help them problem
solve

14. Practices - What?
Literacy and Numeracy Inquiry Learning
Contributing Personal bests
Talents/ Strengths Thinking Skills
Living values Mastery
Goal Setting Curiosity
Social Science Making a difference
Physical Health & Technology
Wellbeing Innovation
Science
Learner competencies

15. What makes a learner an
effective learner?
Community Ideas
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Looking forward to the future be open
reflect
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Curious
•
Problem-solver
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Can adapt new skills to new situations
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•
Self-assessment
Team-work/ collaboration and team
question
•
assessment
Maslow’s hierarchy of need- Learning, wonder
Contribute, Belonging, Sure and Secure
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Desire to make a difference
Curiosity
think
•
Challenge the boundaries
•
Compassion
respect
•
Good listener
•
Inspiring
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Patient
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Understanding
Respectful
compassion
•
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Inspired
Confidence instilled contribute
•
Ability to have a different opinion

17. Goal Setting
• About Mastery and Personal Bests
vs
• Performance (faster, neater, better)
• Effective Goal setting has a
significant impact of student
outcomes Hattie, 2010

18. Showing Progress

20. Practices - How
Foundation Learning Inquiry Learning
Contributing Personal bests
Talents/ Strengths Thinking Skills
Living values Mastery
Goal Setting Curiosity
Social Science Making a difference
Physical Health & Technology
Wellbeing Innovation
Science
Learner competencies

21. Young minds are as much social as individual. It seems
impossible that schools can continue to resist this growing
pattern of social interaction in the ways learning and
assessments are structured.
Guy Claxton, 2010

22. What values would you
like to see reinforced?
Community Ideas
•
Respecting others
Open mindedness
Respect
•
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Respect
•
Collaboration - Participation
•
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Love of learning
Confidence to speak up
Compassion
•
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Integrity
Equality Honesty
•
Great> ‘Wego not ego!’
•
Compassion
•
Respecting people
•
Caring for each other
•
Friendly atmosphere
•
Honesty

23. Practices -
What
Foundation Learning Inquiry Learning
Contributing Personal bests
Talents/ Strengths Thinking Skills
Living values Mastery
Goal Setting Curiosity
Social Science Making a difference
Physical Health & Technology
Wellbeing Innovation
Science
Learner competencies

25. Making Meaning
Inquiry Process
• Building Knowlege
• Connecting and Thinking to
make meaning
• Applying Understandings

26. Inquiry

28. All in Balance
Developing the necessary Knowing what to do
conceptual understandings when you don’t know
for learners to make sense of what to do
their world
• What is powerful • What is powerful
learning -
to learn - What
building capacity
matters?
to learn

30. Learning Spaces

31. Designing Agile
Spaces
• What do you think the learning
spaces need to look like, sound like,
feel like to enable the type of
learning we have been describing?
‘Think big and be brave’ to think
beyond your own school
experience...
Y chart

32. Purposeful Spaces
Fit for Purpose
• Cave space
(independent)
• Watering hole
(Group,
collaborative)
• Camp fire
(large group,
class)
Prakash Nair

33. Mary Featherston, Interior Design Process

34. 21 Century Schools

35. A Learning Hub

36. Authentic Spaces
• Open, Social, Real Malan, 2009
Jasmax

37. Appointments
Community Feedback
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Make students curious, learning by doing
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Inspire students to love learning
•
Encourage student directed learning Rigorous Process
•
My teacher back in 1986 was the best. He just
believed in me! – You are the best!
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Can adapt teaching style methods to the learner.
Therefore know how the child learns Made 8 appointment
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Ability to be respected by students
•
The ability to be looked up to
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Having fun with children yet providing guidance
Adapting to each child and recognizing strengths
range of experience
and weaknesses. Make the weaknesses the strengths
A teacher that helps you think for yourself
Expertise covering all areas
•
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Guidance
•
Explains clearly
•
Answers questions
•
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Caring
Have lots of patience and be a good learner
Induction
•
My best teacher had respect of all for no effort. A
passion for his job and an ability to make everyone
achieve more than they thought possible. 25 years
on and I still remember how they helped me to learn

38. Progress Update
Enrolments Assessment
IT Provider Resources Travel Wise
Start Date
After School Care Green Star
Research

39. Strategic Direction
• Focus Group Wanted
If you are interested in being involved in
strategic planning discussions, standing
for the Board next year.
• Please record your email and contacts on
the sheet.
• First meeting 3 November, 6.00pm

40. Bus Stop Stations
20 min
1. Extra curriculum activities investigated.
What else would you like us to investigate?
2. Strategic Planning focus group - Please sign up if you are interested to take part.
3. Have a sit in the School chairs, try out the beanbag prototype
4. Logo development movie
5. Have a play on a sample mobile device? Would you pay $12 a month to lease
one for your child?
6. Mathletics - Would you be happy to pay? what do you think?
7. Learning Environment - What are your thoughts?
8. Informal Question and Answer with any Leadership or Establishment Board member.

41. Contact
office@stonefields.school.nz
www.stonefields.school.nz
09 527 7721
Next meeting scheduled for 23 September
What time suits you best?
Next meeting we will land and be ready to answer more detailed
questions you may have.