The document provides the itinerary for Week Three of Term Two in 2016. Key events that week include staff briefings and meetings on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday, Year 7 teachers will visit Bethlehem College and there will be an assembly for Years 7-10. The Junior and Senior basketball exchanges are also scheduled. Friday marks the end of the Year 9 rotation and another Senior basketball exchange. Other notes mention a student being selected for a leadership exchange to China and prefabs being removed the following week.

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2016 Term Two Week Three Itinerary
Week A. TermTwo is 10 weeks. That’s 53days until the endof the term. That’s 38 schooldays.
Monday 16/5 Day One. Staff Briefing (am) Staff Meeting PLG’s (pm). AliM2 Mtg
Tuesday 17/5 Day Two. Tech & Phys Ed/Health Mtgs (am). SLT
Meeting (period two). Year 9 Planning Meeting (pm).
School Cross Country
Wednesday 18/5 Day Three. Staff Briefing (am). Yr 7&8 Planning Mtg. Y7&8 Amazing Race
Thursday 19/5 Day Four. Year 7 Deans with Teachers (am). Y7&8
Teachers to visit Bethlehem MLE P4. Assembly P4 for
Year 7-10’s.
Junior BB exchange
Waikato Clinical School
(Doc)
Friday 20/5 Day Five. Staff Briefing (am) Year 9 Rotation Finishes. Senior BB exchange
(canned)
 FYI – Luke Fraser has been selected by Hauraki Council to be one of two reps in a leadership exchange to
China (other being the head girl of Paeroa College).
Things that can be done this week…
 Remember the earlier start time to morning staff meetings (now will be 8:25am).
 Getting some congratulations letters written for students in your classes. With winter coming these add to renewing
students motivation.
 FYI the school hall is being used on the weekend of Sat 28th and Sun 29th by the Labour Party (their shadow cabinet
will be here including leader Andrew Little). They are hiring the hall, staffroom and library.
 FYI the house moving contractors are planning to remove the first five prefabs in the week starting 23rd May (weather
permitting).
 Teach NZ has opened applications for teachers for their annual awards of sabbaticals (there are 50 one term paid
sabbaticals available) and study awards (there are 75 one year paid study awards available). Look up
www.teachnz/govt.nz/studyawards page to find more information.
 NCEA Assessments. Please stick to a two week timeframe for marking/moderation/entry onto kamar after completed
assessment. Letters will need to be sent home to the parents of students who have not completed their assessments.
Leon has created a template letter in kamar which can be used (this will mean this job will be quick and easy).
“The best place to start thinking about changing education is exactly where you
are in it.” (p. 66)
― Ken Robinson Creative Schools.
Food For Thought (linked to PTC#11. “11. analyse and appropriately use assessment
information, which has been gathered formally and informally part i. analyse assessment
information to identify progress and ongoing learning needs of ākonga/students”)…
“Inthe lesssuccessfulschoolstargets wereoften moregeneralised,without clearlyidentifyingthe
students that teachersneededto focus on.As a result,therewas less coherencein the actionsthat
teachersusedto respondto at-riskstudents’needs and interests.Individualteachers mayhavebeen
taking actionsto raisethe achievementforselectedstudents,but theseactionswerenot
coordinatedacrosstheschool. ERO 2015.
On The Horizon…
Next Week (last week of the term) we have
 Start of the new year 9 rotation.
 School Squash Champs.
 Year 10 Smoking Survey
ERO Questions (from our last visit). How would you go now??
“Who are your priority learners in this classroom? – Can I see where are
your reflections on yourstudents?”
“Where is your formative data? Can I see it? Howdo you use your
formative data to plan? Can you evidence this? Are you learners in
groups? What evidence did you use to make these groups?”