Senior Room 2016
Homework: Given out on a Friday and due back the following Friday. It will be a maths sheet and always reading for 20 minutes a night which must be logged in the reading diary.
Morning programme.
This covers Maths, Reading, Writing and Maori. In each subject, most days 2 teaching groups will occur. Each student receives 2 group teaching sessions per subject per week, except Maori which is taught as a whole class.
Each student has an individual timetable containing independent activities to support the group teaching. It is expected that this is completed by the end of Friday’s morning session.
Students are encouraged to make appropriate choices as to where and who they sit with, whether they work in silence or not. At times, the whole class will engage in discussion or will work in silence.
Each student has their own google account and is expected to access the Google Classroom site to find the given resources for their learning. This can accessed at any time at school and at home.
Assessments
Information is collected informally from teaching sessions all the time. Formal assessments such as IKAN, AsTTLe, Spelling testing will take place at least once a term. STAR (reading assessment) will take place in March and November. Once a student reaches a reading age of 15 +, running records will no longer be used.
Afternoon
The first 15 minutes after lunch are dedicated to Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) to allow transition from play back into the classroom.
Science, French, the Arts, PE and Health and Social Studies will be covered throughout the year in the afternoons.
This year for year 7 and 8’s we will trial a Science assessment that is an equivalent to the STAR reading test . This will provide information to continue to improve our teaching to assist the transition to High School.
I endeavour to provide ongoing communication as to what we are up to via the Newsletter, emails and letters when necessary and through the class blog site at http://seniorroomdiptonschool.blogspot.co.nz/
Important dates so far
Technology
Term 1 22nd Feb to 25thFeb
Term 2 16th – 20th May
Term 3 1st – 5th August
Term 4 14th – 18th November
Camp 21st March to 24th March (just before Good Friday)
Life Education Bus
DARE programme
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