Syndicate+Meetings

We are working with Facilitator Raewyn Sills at some of our Syndicate Metings.

Our first formal meeting was held on Wednesday 6 April 2011, after school. Raewyn talked to us about the cycle of Inquiry and gave us some practical ways to set out our Inquiry in a written form. She gave us an example of a planning format that we can use to set out our actions.

We discussed the expected levels for children at each age group.

**Expectations:** (At the end of each year Level) (These are tentative at this time. Sarah is to check this out further.)

These taken from the National Standards Curriculum Levels.

Year 1 Level 1B Year 2 Level 1P Year 3 Level 1A - 2B Year 4 Level2P Year 5 Level 2A - 3B Year 6 Level 3P

Helping Children to identify elements of good writing. We discussed this at some length. We decided it would be helpful for the children to help track their own progress, and that once a new element was introduced, the "base" elements still needed to be included. Katy has used the idea of a "wall" with the building blocks necessary for effective writing, that children can colour in and use as a reference when they write. The "walls" can be glued into the backs of their draft writing books.



We have given our list of target children to Sarah to pass on to Raewyn.

According to the grid/ Graph we were given by Sarah our children achieving well below or below expectation are as follows:

Pod 7 1 child Pod 12 Pod 13 Pod 14

However, we gave Sarah the following numbers as we have to have a small group for our focus and inquiry.

Pod 7 4 children Pod 12 Pod 13 Pod 14

We hope that the Ministry of Education are **NOT** taking our "focus group" figures and further interpreting them as all "failing students."