Term 1 2026

What a very fast and busy term. As I returned from a very exciting and fabulous holiday sailing through the Panama canal. I didn't return to work until the second week of February and started back in classes in the third week in Feb. I hit the ground running. I caught up with Elena and helped to rewrite our MPI to aline with the current curriculum. This has been a big job and a great way to come familar with the new curriculum. I also had 2 MoE days at schools so also had to plan and organise new modules for these. Elena and myself did our toolkit for the term around planning mathematics and Statistics so we also had to plan and organise that. We had a good turn out and had positive feedback. Kiri from the research team came up for the research reflections hosted at Mangonui school and a staff meeting on PAT assessment. At the end of the term we had our great 2 days in Auckland at our Manaiakalani hui. We spent a majority of the time learning about the new Litercy observation tool. It was also great to catch up with everyone and meet the new facilitators.