Planning+Dec+13+2011

= Term 1 2012 = Date: December 13th 2011

Agenda
__Y chart and discussion points from Throw Up day. Use as a guide for planning in 2012__

__What do we want to achieve in the first month of 2012?__ __What's happening in 2012?__
 * Building a learning community among home base
 * New year 5s to feel ownership of Learning Centre
 * Building a relationship between LAs and learners/
 * Knowing our learners 'spark' (questioning matrix... Jac)
 * Knowing what our learners know
 * Building leadership
 * LLL: bootcamps / task
 * Chook shed up and running: OHandS task for access
 * Jobs: bins, music, area bags, sports shed
 * Introduce new roles: assembly (house captains to lead)
 * Access cards: year 6s continue Sacred Space?
 * First LA meeting
 * Have first student conference
 * Started seminars, explicit focus groups,
 * Laptops will go home
 * Wordbank set up
 * iTime started
 * Senior information night (camp,...)
 * Introduce Habits of Mind
 * [|National Year of Reading]
 * Olympics
 * Ultimate Story
 * United Nations Year of Sustainability
 * World Expo in Sth Korea
 * Mars Science Lab: Rover scheduled to land on Mars
 * Kyoto: December
 * Camp: Borambola Term 2 Week 1

**__Inquiry__**
[|VELS - Level 4] Physical, Personal and Social Learning Strand Throughline - Learning our stories

Learning to be the me I want to be

Ideas:
 * What makes me who I am?
 * The 'me' I want to be
 * Learning to be the me I want to be
 * Learning to be me

Understandings Complete 'tuning in'

**__Teams: developing an approach to planning__**

 * Develop two/three member Maths/Literacy teams to develop plan and tasks for first semester 2012
 * Teams become experts in their area
 * Teams could swap term/semester

Maths
 * Mel
 * Lyn

Literacy
 * Sherie
 * Kane

**__Knowing what our students know: Data__**
Writing Spelling
 * narrative writing
 * persuasive writing
 * explanation
 * SAST (A and B)
 * look at writing

Reading
 * on demand test
 * Probe 2

Maths iTime [|Personalisation by Pieces Trial]
 * on demand test
 * First Steps diagnostic tasks/ MTS online
 * DemoSMT || cautionlivesite ||
 * DemoLearner4 || cautionlivesite ||

[|Vels sample unit] [|Narrative and Persuasive writing marking guides] Literacy wiki page Maths wiki page First Steps proformas in Dropbox
 * Responding to an issue (modify to support writing, reading strategies (skimming/summarising), working in teams, personal learning.....) Might be a good one for term one
 * __Reference__**