St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School
Board of Trustees
April 2015 Meeting
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Strategic goals reported on from Strategic plan
Engaging
Families/Whanau
Consult and make connections with our parish and
local community to promote St Dominic’s Catholic Primary School and celebrate
what makes our school the place it is.
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Inserts
into the parish newsletter when appropriate
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School
newsletter online
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The
recent Bay newstalk
Consultation meetings with all main Cultural groups
within the school at least once a year.
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Meeting
with Pacifica group planned twice a term.
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Indian
group meeting took place and we had a great turn out.
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Student
well-being presented on the night.
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This
term we have meetings planned for Indian and Sri Lankan, Fillipino and Chinese
The idea of these
meetings is to provide more of a ‘real’ voice for our community groups.
It fits directly into
our strategic plan goal.
We discuss aspects of
learning and ways the school can further support their children’s time at
school.
Feedback has been
positive and the idea of ‘integration rather than isolation’ came out strong
which I thought was a great comment.
Develop the Pastoral care group so that they support
our families in need when needed.
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To meet
with Pastoral care group twice a term.
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Families
continue to be tracked and support offered when needed.
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Will
be working with Parish to develop this further. Plans are in place for two
events this year with the parish and also our ‘sharing shed’ which would be
lead by the disciples and allow the parish and school to work on a common
project.
Plan to organise at least 2 community events each
year that encourages families coming together and socialising. (PTA support
here)
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Bowling
Afternoon after mass. Building a sense of community with parents and
parishioners. This is a work in progress. See above.
Teaching
Develop and implement programmes that raises student
abilities in literacy and numeracy.
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Targets have been
set up based on last year’s results
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Mutukaroa across the junior
school continues at least end of Term 1. Vicky and I have re written the plan
for this and have made to following changes to this. All 5 year entering school
will be tested and parents will have a meeting then with the teacher based on
the results. Those children not tracking as they should will then be re tested
at 5 and half and then all children again will be tested at 6 and parents
brought in for a formal meeting again
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ALIM in the Year 3 and 4 has
been dropped due to time pressure on staff.
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ALL in the junior school is up
and running. Children are extremely positive about their learning and enjoy
sharing in the process. See video on night. https://youtu.be/iYK8l7UzoZc
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This year we
continue the whole school focus on Numeracy. This involves the following
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Co-teaching
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Co-planning
We have a contract through
the Ministry to unpack Professional development with the staff. We are in Year
2 of this contract. The focus for this year is to build up Maths leaders within
the school.
Each teacher has a Maths
goal that they are working with the Maths leaders on to make sure that these
are developing their practice which will directly affect student achievement.
Creating a greater link
from library to classroom programmes through Polly Ghosh who has been given
this role in the school.
Use integrated curriculum delivery, inquiry learning
and the key competencies in our teaching and learning programmes.
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We are
currently taking the year to unpack this new curriculum. C:\Users\danielp\OneDrive\2015\Curriculum\New
curriculum\New one April 2015.docx
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We are currently
working on handbooks to support this document.
Develop further formative assessment practice and
encourage students to personalise their learning.
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Staff have chosen
their goals for their personal reflection that build on previous year’s
personal development.
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Staff will be
self-monitoring their own evidence gathering in relation to the teacher
criteria.
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All staff have
had their initial meetings and have been informed of the process. Management of
evidence will now be tracked.
Report to parents on student achievement in relation
to the national standards.
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This will take
place as Assessment timetable sets out
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STAR results
discussed.
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Some thinking
around the Special needs students and how we are tracking these students. We
need another ways of showing the successes these children are making and the
regular ways we are assessing them is not working for them.
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Narrative
assessment aspects.
Student engagement and independence: student voice,
goal setting and AKO concepts.
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Goal setting took
place with most children doing this on their devices.
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This was well
received by the parents.
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Students need to
reflect on this goals as the year progresses.
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This is where the
Key Competencies need to be developed further so that the children can talk
into these.
Develop a culture of learning where ICT is an everyday
learning tool.
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IT survey as part
of the self-review process discussed.
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IT rubric being
developed as part of the IT plan in the school.
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Develop and implement differentiated learning
programmes to meet the needs of students across all learning areas.
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Target groups
have been set up within the classrooms for Maths, Writing and Reading
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Data wall will
become more and more a focus and will continue to be so. We need to know if we
are making more of an impact on our children. What impact is our teaching
making and how do we know?
School
Catholic Culture
Reviewing the annual plan from previous year
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First meeting has
taken pace with DRS and we are well on board for a great review. St Dominic’s
already has great system and structures behind the scene for real pastoral
care.
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This year the
focus is Pastoral Care.
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What does our
school actually do to support our school families?
Visually our school looks more Catholic using images
and pictures
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Work in progress
Professional development in this area is looked into
and encouraged through the appraisal process.
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We need to
develop systems and procedures to ensure that the 12 credits become the least
amount of professional development achievements their teachers experience in a
year.
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There seems
to be ever increasing pressure on our schools to up skill and seek higher
qualifications for our teachers.
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This is
great however what is not discussed are issues like teacher release impacts on
students, budgeting to allow this to happen and how our rural Catholic schools
are supposed to meet these obligations.
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No one
disputes the need to encourage our teachers of the Catholic faith to up skill,
what we need to be mindful of however is getting to the point when all teachers
who apply for a job in a Catholic school have to have a Catholic Qualification.
Key competencies are developed through the school
values.
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Staff meeting taken
on this to make sure this is in the forefront of our teachers minds.
More student voice and action into all things Catholic
at school
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Will oversee the ‘sharing
shed’ idea set up by the pastoral care group. We have received the money for
this so can go ahead with it.
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Have ordered the
shed and Mike the caretaker is on board with what this will look like for us.
We need to work out a system for this to happen.
All staff expected to attend 2 PD courses each year.
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This opportunity
is open to all staff including Support
Exchanges with other catholic schools for mass and
sport exchange where our faith can be celebrated Catholic School’s Day
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N/A
Teacher’s video practice and this is used to reflect
upon. This will form part of teacher appraisal process.
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Ongoing and as
part of individual teachers evidence gathering
Managing and Learning
Design and implement
a school wide curriculum that meets the needs of NZC and our school community.
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The new St Dominic’s Curriculum has been introduced
however we need to go back to this to ensure that this is leading the schools
drive.
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We have unpacked the Year 6 leaver and now will
move into the Student achievement statement so that the teachers understand
their roles in the new curriculum.
Build a professional
learning community that focuses on student learning as their core purpose.
Share good practice.
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All staff are
well aware that they are in the ‘drivers-seat’ regarding their own evidence
gathering. They will have maintain a very robust and rigorous plan to ensure
they are meeting the teacher council criteria.
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I see Community of Schools being a leading
factor in making this happen further.
Provide professional
development opportunities to support student achievement through improved
understandings in Curriculum, Pedagogy, Literacy, Numeracy, Assessment,
National Standards and E- Learning.
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Mutokaroa project
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Whole school Mathematical focus
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Catholic strand meetings
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ALL
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NZC support
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Reciprocal teaching professional practice
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Sharing practice within the staff
Grow Great leaders.
Build leadership capability of principal and teachers who hold positions of
responsibility and leadership and also Student leaders.
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N/A
Provide a safe secure
learning environment for our students.
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Current areas of concern
ü Junior playground.
Have given this as the target for the bi-annual fair. PTA happy with this.
The
Health and Safety Reform Bill will create the new Health and Safety at Work
Act, replacing the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
The
Health and Safety Reform Bill is currently before Parliament. The select
committee considering the Bill is due to report back by 30 March 2015 and then
the Bill will continue its progression through the parliamentary process. It is
likely that the Bill will come into force in the second half of 2015.
We have reviewed and changed our process around this
at St Dominic’s.
This is the focus for the Fair from the community.
Governing
Enrolment and Office procedures - monitor the enrolment procedures
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This is working well and we are on track for 278 students by the end of
the year.
Promote high
levels of staff performance.
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This has been set up and all teacher having to come
up with 3 goals based on IT, Teacher practice and Maths
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This will then lead into formal observations and
reflection through evidence gathering
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All part of the teacher inquiry model and building
teacher capability.
Continue
to upgrade the school grounds, ensure
the property is able to meet
the needs of a 21st Century education, continue
environmental education
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Enviro group are an excellent group that are really
making a difference across the school. Vicky continues to lead this strong
group of children.
Monitor school budget to ensure purchasing
is strategic.
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Business as usual https://d.docs.live.net/a10b7db41fa86485/2015/BOT%20reports/Business%20as%20norm%202015.docx
Ensure there is
a planned cycle of review and self-review in
the school.
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Self-review on IT developments and its impact on students discussed on
the night.
Staff feedback at BOT meetings leading the reports in their areas
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Staff yet to be set up for
this however they are very keen to get this off the ground.
Current
school roll 234
Points to
discuss
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IES update
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Principals
appraisal process
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Staff illness
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Server issues
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One page
strategic plan
Although the life
of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in
which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
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