Westbrook+Primary

Co-Lead Teachers
Lyn Martin lynm@westbrook.school.nz Jackie Barrett jackieb@westbrook.school.nz


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= Principals Reflections for the Milestone 4 timeframe =

Our teachers have been engaged in some significant pedagogical reflections since the last Milestone report.

We have enjoyed regular quality professional development, ably led by our two Lead Teachers, Jackie Barrett and Lyn Martin.

This training has been held in three distinctly different formats. Firstly, there have been whole Team (Year Group) PD sessions with Paula. Secondly there have been whole and half Team PD opportunities with Lyn and Jackie, and thirdly we have continued our Wednesday after school PD, “Mooveit” courses, held every fortnight, and hosted by Lyn and Jackie. The main focus for this PD has been Teacher planning, Literature, Website design and photography. The staff have all made some significant shifts in their practice, with Literacy pedagogy in particular being challenged.

The teachers have all established a class Literacy Blog as a result of the PD thus far, and classroom programmes reflect ICT in so many different ways than in the past. I too established a blog. This was in relation to my trip to Canada and the USA. I made regular updates, including dozens of photographs, which the children back home, as well as staff and friends could access to follow my journey.

An interesting impact of the increases use of ICT in classrooms has been the need to significantly increase our photocopy budget to allow teachers, and more importantly students, to print in colour.

The photography focus has had two major effects on our practice and management. Firstly we have had to purchase 12 new cameras to keep up with the demand for their use. We have also changed the management system to accommodate the need for flexibility in their use. We now have class cameras as well as a pod of cameras for general use. We also have a Photography Blog and held a very successful photography competition. Apart for the purchase of cameras, the increased use of ICT to support classroom curriculum programmes has required the purchase of 10 additional PC’s and 2 additional Data Projectors.

S.O.L.O. has continued to be a major focus for staff PD. Pam Hook joined us for a TOD on the 26 of September, to lead a day of PD focussed on Teacher Planning using SOLO. We have booked Pam again for early 2012.

As I stated in my opening paragraph the teachers have enjoyed some significant time of personal reflection over the course of the year. We hosted all the schools in our cluster, as well as the Rotorua Town and Country Cluster, in Term 2 and 3. We also visited most of the other schools in both Clusters in late term 3.

One of the key observations from these visits is that there is some wonderfully exciting learning taking place in all these schools, and that we must maintain our momentum of new learning in order to keep pace with our cluster colleagues.

=Contributed by Lead Teacher for purpose of Milestone Reporting=
 * In School Professional learning relating to Cluster Goals 1 and 3 **


 * Interactive White board sharing 2 x term 3 **
 * Whole staff -Literacy and ICT Staff meeting 15th Sept **
 * Whole staff - Feedback from Cluster Lead Teacher Meetings 5th October **
 * Modelling sessions with classes and Teachers for Marvin, Flux Time. **

**2 x ¼ hr sessions with Kickstart Parents on Net Safe and Cyber Safety**
 * Goal 4 - Community **
 * Term 3 Parent Meetings **
 * In conjunction with NZ Police Netsafe and Keeping ourselves safe evening meeting **

**Links** www.westbrook.school.nz Parent page set up Term 3

@http://westbrookwriters.blogspot.com/ Writers Blog

@http://westbrookphotographers.blogspot.com/ Photography Blog

=**Westbrook 2011 Milestone 4 ICT Reflections -**=

**"A Snapshot in time".......as a result of reflection time with Paula (Term 3)****Addressing Goals 1, 3 and 4**

How your team incorporates ICT into their planning
 * Year 1a Team**
 * Currently Team has a Unit overview (which they intend on adding 'Possible ICT Activiies/tools' to next term)

What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom?
 * Individual teacher class blog []
 * Example of a converted 'Activboard' Flipchart - Writing
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 * [[image:rcict/SDC12336.JPG width="295" height="234" caption="Sharing IWB"]] || [[image:rcict/SDC12342.JPG width="317" height="243"]] ||
 * [[image:rcict/Fun_Friday_T2_Wk4_006.jpg width="305" height="243"]] || [[image:rcict/SDC11858.JPG width="333" height="243"]] ||

media type="custom" key="10155281" How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online)
 * Individual teacher Voicethread example
 * IWB shared lesson folders
 * Team Meetings
 * Casual Conversation
 * Presenting at Conferences - Individual teacher example (Converted Activboard Flipchart)

How your team incorporates ICT into their planning? What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom? How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online)
 * Year 1b Team**
 * Same unit plan as team above
 * ICT links are integrated into individual weekly planning.
 * Only one team member not using digital planning.
 * Using Hector's World in suite
 * Artrage
 * Comic Life
 * Interactive games
 * Digital Literacy websited Storyline Online
 * Using Paula's Pages - Only2Clicks site
 * Casual Conversations

How your team incorporates ICT into their planning
 * Year 2 Team**
 * Unit plan does not have explicit ICT links at present
 * Team has created a 2clicks account to enhance student achievement and engagement eg Digital Book

What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom?
 * IWB usage has increased (1 of three in team has one)
 * Children use digital camera
 * Children integrating classroom computer
 * Hectors World (as part of 'Fun Friday')
 * Whole class research using Google/Wikipedia as a tool
 * Home Share Books - samples of work, photo's (Four times a year home to parents as reporting)
 * Classroom walls.

Convert powerpoint and upload to HERE.
 * Evidence**

How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online)
 * Team meetings
 * Impromptu 'get togethers' - walking the walls
 * Sharing and feedback from Teacher Aides

How your team incorporates ICT into their planning? Team Planning Individual Teacher Inquiry Planning
 * Year 3 Team**

> What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom?
 * Using Laptop for Individual planning (Accessing Websites eg NZ Maths, TKI)
 * Individual Teacher Blog []
 * Comic Life on student server

How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online)
 * Professional Conversations
 * Team Meeting
 * Blog
 * Come together and using IWB (eg Harold, Suzie's World)

**Year 4 Team** How your team incorporates ICT into their planning?
 * Whole Team Planning with explicit ICT links [[file:RWC Unit.doc]]
 * Whole Team Writing Plan[[file:Writing T3_2011.doc]]
 * Individual teacher Planning which is not printed out by made available to Senior Team each week via a shared school dropbox account[[file:2011T3W6.doc]]

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 * Whole team have a blog used for sharing and accessing web links.
 * One teachers blog []
 * Part of Keeping Ourselves Safe unit dealing with peer pressure. Telling a story with 5 photos[[image:rcict/Page_1.jpg width="800" height="565"]]
 * Children learning how to use voice recording on the IWB [[file:rec.avi]]
 * After studying the Pink and White terraces learners used TripWOW []
 * As part of the NZEI "School is Cool" project a class collaborated to create this moviemedia type="custom" key="10358106"
 * Segment in Team meeting that is dedicated to sharing (eg: websites, reflections and 'where to's', what has gone well or not!)
 * One team member presented at Cluster Conference on SOLO
 * A new discovery to use in class

**Year 5 Team**How your team incorporates ICT into their planning? What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom? > How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online) **Comments**
 * Team Unit Plan
 * [[file:Term 3.xls]]
 * Individual teachers stand alone Reading Lesson for Level 27+
 * [[file:Detective Unit.doc]]
 * Link to a teachers blog []
 * All of team using Super Clubs Plus
 * Learners reinvent, in true Kiwi style, the traditional tale of "The Fox and the Crow".
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 * Kiwiana 'Us and our Place' learners took part in an online Scavenger Hunt in pairs, discoveries new understandings on 16 regions of New Zealand. Asks 4 questions per region.[]
 * Learners created hardcopy bound books to share in class and with their peers using []
 * One member of the team shared across cluster at the Connect 5 Conference
 * Frequent emailing and sharing of links
 * Use of Only2Clicks link resource []
 * Impromptu sharing in conversations (eg resources, websites)
 * Sharing at team meetings (although not a feature of every team meeting at present)
 * Sharing at Senior School Assembly for teacher and student benefit
 * Looking forward to PD relating to planning with Pam and Julie.
 * Inconsistency of equipment across the team (eg only one member has an Activ board) makes it a challenge
 * Access to data projector at times as only 2 available across school

** Year 6a Team ** How your team incorporates ICT into their planning? What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom? Teamwide Individual Teacher media type="youtube" key="Xy-4KHx4Sro" height="349" width="425"
 * ICT appears on individual weekly planning rather than on Unit plan at this stage.
 * Under the umbrella of specific units -eg this term Performing Arts has ICT which fall off it eg Youtube clips and music resources/skits
 * Digital Photo's - Montage
 * Wordle
 * Superclubs Plus
 * Websites - eg Low readers on Roy the Zebra
 * Google Sketch up

How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online) **Comments**
 * Through conversations
 * Teacher shared new knowledge gained from a Cluster Conference with wider audience (Cluster) at a after school workshop.
 * Once a month afternoon staff meeting with Lyn (eg new tools with a practical use in the classroom)


 * Workshops/Conferences have been hugely beneficial for shifting and supporting thinking and infusion of ICT.

**Year 6b Team** How your team incorporates ICT into their planning? What evidence do you have that ICT has and is taking place in your classroom? Individual Teacher Individual Teacher Individual Teacher How your team regularly shares new learning, student ICT experiences and websites with peers (and/or wider eg. Cluster, Online)
 * At this stage ICT does not appear in the planning.
 * In the future the team intends to complete an Integrated ICT plan to cover all curriculum areas not just the specific focus of the unit.
 * Team Wide - Digital Camera, Easi Speak, Flip Camera
 * Digital Camera ( Language/Drama - Classroom treaty)
 * Buildmywildself (Descriptive Writing/SOLO)
 * Imagechef (ANZAC)
 * Scratch (Graphing)
 * Google SketchUp (Maths - Geometry)
 * Photostory (Literacy)
 * PowerPoint (Presentation)
 * Informally as part of a team meeting, occasionally.
 * Home share book night (A teacher shared a website - [])

Westbrook 2011 Milestone 3 ICT Reflections - CLICK HERE FOR PRINCIPAL'S REPORT The meeting held on 7th March was facilitated by Paula Jameison and those who were involved were Colin Watkins – Principal Jackie Barrett – Cluster Lead teacher Lyn Martin – Cluster Lead Teacher and ICT Specialist Rochelle Wolland – Lead Teacher of Year 1 Jules McLaughlin – Lead Teacher of Year 5 As a result we now have a clear direction of where we are going as a whole school with regard to ICT. Our Strategic goals can be seen on the home page of our web site and now reflect and acknowledge the importance of global learning and lifelong learning opportunities, through the use of ICT to raise student achievement. A Professional Learning Group was formed and it was decided to have a twice yearly review of the future direction of ICT in our school and of implementation plans such as Staff PD and hardware/software upgrades. Strategic Goals [|www.westbrook.school.nz] Achievement Targets
 * Strategic Planning **

Different attitude and style of learning and teaching is beginning to emerge in Senior classes. Teachers are beginning to realise that maybe a lack in their own ICT Pedagogy and skills is disadvantaging their students. They have also come to the realisation that there are many ways of overcoming this.
 * Changes in Teaching Methodology **

Peer Tutoring A Year 6 student had been asked to show another class how to use, and what can be done with Sketchup. media type="youtube" key="l9-DidLfe8U" height="349" width="560"

** Integrated Planning ** A large percentage of the staff now do their planning electronically too and it is then sent (Via Drop Box) to Team Leaders and Senior Teachers for comment and feedback. Included in this planning is evidence of the integration of ICT and SOLO as part of the everyday programme and curriculum.

All staff attended teacher only day for a second session SOLO Professional Development with Julie. There were more than a few “Ah! Ha!” moments and staff commented that after this Professional Development, they felt more confident and skilled at working with SOLO. As a result of this all teachers started the year off enthusiastically with their classes, by either introducing or reintroducing SOLO. There were some fabulous ideas to be shared among the staff during those first two weeks. A central repository was made available so teachers could share their ideas. We are continuing to develop this sharing of ideas.
 * SOLO **

As a follow up to our Cyber Safety PD facilitated by Co-Cluster leaders, Jackie Barrett and Lyn Martin in Sept 2nd 2010 http://westbrookictpd.wikispaces.com/ICTPD+2nd+September+2010 we started the year off with the Years 1 to 3 introducing cyber safety to their classes by using Hector’s World. Hector the dolphin has been installed on every computer throughout the school and children have been instructed how to use him to keep themselves safe when they are on the internet. Children have also been using the Hector web site and get very excited about their learning while using this media. media type="youtube" key="q0JACx3JIho" height="349" width="560"media type="youtube" key="vpT6slSibCI" height="349" width="560"
 * Cyber Safety **

Classes at the Year 4, 5 and 6 levels have participated in Superclubs Plus. Superclubs is being widely used as part of class room programmes throughout the senior school. This graph of our Internet usage in March shows this quite clearly.

Westbrook took delivery of 4 new interactive in February this Year. This brings our total number of Interactive white boards to 8. Teachers have been attending PD and continue to increase and share their knowledge with each other on a regular basis. It is pleasing to see that teachers allow the children to use these boards and are not just using them for themselves.
 * Interactive White Boards **




 * ICT MANAGEMENT REPORT**

Having our own facilitator this year has been of immense support and all Principals, Cluster Leaders and staff have enjoyed and benefited from her depth of knowledge, expertise and guidance in our RCICT e-learning cluster.

Westbrook School has continued to make progress working towards achieving the programme goals and to sustain this, a revised e-learning strategic plan has been set in place to give our school a clear direction and purpose.

A wide range of professional development has been provided to all staff members at our school. This has been delivered using a variety of methods and by targeting individual needs (as per prior staff skills evaluation sheets), interests and ability levels. Training has also continued for eight teachers who have Interactive White Boards installed in their classrooms, both in-house and by Promethean, the providers.

Professional development has resulted in a progression in the integration of e-Learning into the curriculum and teachers have made changes to support this through their own curriculum delivery and planning. Underpinning this has been the implementation of SOLO and inquiry learning. All teachers have set personal goals in both e-Learning and SOLO. These goals will be self reviewed and included as part of their appraisal with management. One of the biggest changes that has occurred has been attitudes around e-Learning pedagogy. More and more teachers are seeing the importance, excitement and potential of e-Learning to increase student achievement, but more importantly they are beginning to understand that “Children of the Third Millennium” have different needs and learn in different ways. They see that they as teachers have to make changes to accommodate this.

The two co-cluster leader’s roles have undergone change this year due to the appointment of our cluster facilitator. Whereas before they were the ones providing professional development to staff on a regular basis, they now are adopting more of a supporting, mentoring and modelling role within the school. This has included facilitating sessions back at school after cluster workshops have been held to help with problems that teachers have had with implementing this new learning. More significantly, it provides an opportunity for staff members who were unable to attend the workshops to have the knowledge passed on to them by those staff members who did. Sharing, peer to peer tutoring and collaboration by teachers is becoming more evident. E-Learning sharing often takes place during lunchtimes, staff meetings, senior management meetings and team meetings. A wider base of teacher expertise is beginning to become apparent and Cluster Leaders are encouraging these teachers to take a more active role in the process at their own school and presenting Cluster wide.

SOLO taxonomy has continued at Westbrook School and the benefits of this and evidence can be seen school wide. The teacher only day provided many more teachers with the skills and confidence to use SOLO in their classrooms to increase student achievement and provide the “Where to next?” solution. Further SOLO professional development from Julie or Pam would consolidate this powerful teaching tool and provide new directions for its utilisation. Cluster Leaders have also indicated that they would like to visit and observe SOLO taxonomy operating in lower decile schools. Westbrook School has extended its cyber safety programmes throughout the school. The Superclubs plus programme started in some classes in 2010, and now includes all of the Year 4 to 6 students this year. The junior classes have embarked on the Hectors World Cyber safety programme to help them to be safer online. These two areas as well as the continuation of class blogs and web page have provided a better link to our global community. It is intended that the cluster leaders run an online cyber safety evening for parents later in the year. Another way we would like inform the community would be to hold an e-Learning week which would culminate in the students showing off their skills to family members.

=Milestone Report 2010= A word from

Colin Watkins Principal
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· We were not part of an ICT Cluster. · Teacher use of ICT to enhance learning was sporadic and varied amongst the staff. This ranged from teachers who felt threatened and resisted new technology through to those who had fully integrated it into their planning and learning across the curriculum. · PD was provided to the whole staff 15 minutes per month or ad hoc when required. · Very few Professional Development opportunities outside of the school were accessed. · Web 2 tools and Class Blogging was introduced. There were few takers at the beginning. · Most of the ICT learning took place in the Computer Suite · Little ICT integration planning was shown in unit or long term plans. · Inquiry Learning and SOLO were introduced to the staff. · There was little strategic direction from management. · Some of our equipment was over 10 years old. · Very little ICT was used in School Assemblies.
 * WHERE WE WERE: **


 * WHERE WE ARE NOW: **
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 * We still however retain a few resistant staff members.
 * We are members of the Rotorua Central ICT PD Cluster, participating in a 3 year contract. This has renewed the focus on just how important ICT is in a school. Two cluster lead teachers from Westbrook have been appointed and although we do not yet have a facilitator, we are well on the way to improving ICT at Westbrook.
 * One of the first tasks as a staff, was to identify where each of us was on the journey to being completely confident and competent in the use of ICT. Each staff member completed a survey, which acts as baseline data, from which we can identify our school and individual goals in ICT.[[file:ICPD CLUSTER SURVEY.xls]]
 * Regular ICT Staff PD is now being provided to all staff, led by our two lead teachers.
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Click here to go to our Wiki to see what took place at our Cluster PD Launch
=Click here to see what we are doing with SOLO.=
 * ICT cluster funds have been utilised to release lead teachers to meet with those from other schools in our cluster, visit other schools to observe ICT in action, (6 Interschool and intercluster visits in term1) and allow staff to attend courses and conferences. Four staff members attended the Learning@Schools Conference in Term 1, including our two lead teachers, the Principal and Associate Principal. 8 teachers attended BEST (Beaut Examples of Successful Teaching) in 2010 which centred around ICT.
 * ICT Professional learning groups have been set up. (Interactive White Board PLG, Blog PLD,)
 * Mini Tutorial sessions occur when the need arises. ( Podcasting and Web 2 tools)
 * ICT is starting to be shown in planning. The ICT lead teacher attended team planning days in Term 1 to support teachers in their integration of ICT and SOLO taxonomy into units.
 * ICT is being used more in classrooms, rather than just in the Computer Suite. [[image:rcict/WB1.png width="319" height="285"]]
 * Over half the school has a class blog or wiki. Children in these classes in the senior school have their own blogs. See Our Blogs
 * There is an increase in the use of cameras and videos.
 * 18 new PCs, 4 Interactive Whiteboards as well as peripherals have been purchased. We are at present waiting for the approval of grant funding which will enable the purchase of a further 6 Interactive White boards and 6 data projectors.
 * The SOLO taxonomy is being used in most classes and Inquiry Learning has also been adopted.


 * A Replacement Equipment proposal is now in place.
 * Management support for ICT is now shown and direction is coming from the top not filtering up from the bottom. The principal has been involved in cluster meetings, applications and professional development related to ICT in 2009 and 2010. Our Board of Trustees is also supportive of our goal to increase the profile of ICT in the school.
 * We now run a lunchtime Lunch time Super club to foster digital citizenship. media type="custom" key="6178077"
 * Our Assemblies are now ICT Rich.

** There is an excitement around the school regarding the use of ICT. **

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