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| Tamaki College English Department 2024 |
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| Tamaki College English Department 2024 |
I am grateful, humbled and proud of the curriculum that we have built together, the achievement in our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English internal assessments and the space that we have created for our young readers and writers. The opportunities, growth, reconnection and affirmation that we have experienced as a collective has been a blessing and one that I hope we can continue to journey together in
I want to honor, acknowledge and celebrate the English Department. I want to thank the staff, the family, for the love and excellence that they bring to the department. To Ms Anahina Latu, Mrrs Christine Williams, Mr Jeremy Spruyt, Ms Francis Kolo, Mr Faiyaz Hoosein, Mrs Pravina Harde and Mrs Vivienne Jenson-Jones - thank you for your dedication, commitment, love, support, service and friendship to our department and to our students. It is an honor and privilege to journey through 2024 with you all. I am grateful for everything that you have poured into our department. I thank you, I am grateful for and I celebrate you. I am excited for what 2025 has in store for us and our department.
I would like to acknowledge Mrs Christine Williams and Mrs Vivienne Jenson-Jones who have finished at Tamaki College - thank you both for the life, love and joy that you have poured into your department and students. We will miss you dearly! We will now take a look at our self-review of our School Goals, Junior and Senior English program for 2024.
We are excited to introduce new texts by some of Aotearoa’s Maori and Pacific writers such as Tim Tipene (Kura Toa) and Tusiata Avia in our Junior English curriculum. We also gave some of our Year 10 English students the opportunity to sit the Literacy Co-Requisite assessment in the September intake (Term 3). We selected students who are at curriculum Level 5 for PAT reading comprehension. The students used a period during their double period (during the Week A schedule) to go through the practice assessment using the previous Literacy Co-Requisite papers with their English teacher. In Term 4, a new curriculum for our Year 9 and Year 10 Junior English program was released. The new curriculum has been in the works for over 11 months and aligns itself with Te Mataiaho (the curriculum refresh). We are excited to roll this new program out in 2025. Some of the key features of the new course includes a reduced Common Assessment Task schedule, prioritized structured literacy activities throughout the year, a whole term dedicated to literacy intensives (term 1) and scheduling library periods for all of our Year 9 and Year 10 students focusing on reading for pleasure.
I would like to acknowledge Mrs Christine Williams and Mrs Vivienne Jenson-Jones who have finished at Tamaki College - thank you both for the life, love and joy that you have poured into your department and students. We will miss you dearly! We will now take a look at our self-review of our School Goals, Junior and Senior English program for 2024.
JUNIOR ENGLISH (Year 9 and Year 10) REVIEW 2024
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| Year 9 and Year 10 English @ Tamaki College 2024 |
The Junior English program and curriculum continues to evolve and grow each year. This year was no different where our curriculum and program went through a few changes. Our goal with the Year 9 and Year 10 Junior English program was to study relevant and rich texts, complete a Common Assessment Task each term and implement the literacy strategies and practices to support our student’s literacy journey. Our program for our Junior English program for 2024 was:
Term 1: Extended Text Study + Formal Writing (CAT)
Term 2: Short Text Study + Creative Writing (CAT) + Mid Year Examination
Term 3: Visual Text Study + Close Viewing (CAT)
Term 4: Speech (CAT) + Final Year Examination
We are excited to introduce new texts by some of Aotearoa’s Maori and Pacific writers such as Tim Tipene (Kura Toa) and Tusiata Avia in our Junior English curriculum. We also gave some of our Year 10 English students the opportunity to sit the Literacy Co-Requisite assessment in the September intake (Term 3). We selected students who are at curriculum Level 5 for PAT reading comprehension. The students used a period during their double period (during the Week A schedule) to go through the practice assessment using the previous Literacy Co-Requisite papers with their English teacher. In Term 4, a new curriculum for our Year 9 and Year 10 Junior English program was released. The new curriculum has been in the works for over 11 months and aligns itself with Te Mataiaho (the curriculum refresh). We are excited to roll this new program out in 2025. Some of the key features of the new course includes a reduced Common Assessment Task schedule, prioritized structured literacy activities throughout the year, a whole term dedicated to literacy intensives (term 1) and scheduling library periods for all of our Year 9 and Year 10 students focusing on reading for pleasure.
SENIOR ENGLISH (NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English) REVIEW 2024:
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| NCEA Level 1 English students @ Tamaki College 2024 |
Our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English results for 2024 were positive. Initially the credit shift was slow to start off across our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English classes. In Term 1 many of our senior students were starting assessments and it was not until half way of Term 2 did we start to see a positive shift with our NCEA achievement data. Specifically with our NCEA Level 1 cohort, our students were working through a new curriculum refresh and we knew that we had to be patient and trust our curriculum. At the beginning of Term 3 we had 96 students on 0 credits in our NCEA Level 1 English cohort. In Week 5 of Term 4 we had 14 students with 0 credits and 71% of our NCEA Level 1 English students with 5+ English credits. Our NCEA Level 2 and NCEA Level 3 English students gained the majority of their credits in Term 3. By the end of Week 3 Term 4 we had 19 students with 0 credits in our NCEA Level 2 English cohort and 14 students with 0 credits in our NCEA Level 3 English cohort. Our internal assessment schedule (although busy) kept to the deadline where we closed all internal assessments for our NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3 English students at the end of Week 1 Term 4. We are pleased with our internal assessment results for 2024 and we are excited to improve, grow and strive for excellence with senior students in 2025.
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| NCEA English Examinations Term 4 2024 |
Our external assessment results highlight a range of concerns. Many of our students achieve NCEA through internal assessments and the priority around external assessments has wavered. When you partner this with ongoing absences, it is inevitable that the external results will hinder. Although the results for our external assessments were not the best in 2024, we are hopeful to create an opportunity for our students to feel confident and comfortable to do the external assessments, to see the importance in doing external assessments and prioritizing them as they are an integral part of one’s learning journey in secondary school.
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