Week 3 Term 2 - English Department: Goals for Term 2 (May 12 - May 16)

Term 2 is an important term for our English Department. This term, we look to prioritize goals that focus on both our Junior and Senior School English students, the curriculum and our school goals. We understand that as the term progresses, things change (as we have experienced before). We will endeavour to do our best to stick to our goals for Term 2. Below are some of the goals that we would like to work towards in Term 2.

Students at risk of achieving - We want to work with our identified students who are at risk of achieving credits in English. We have identified who the students are, the reasons and the next steps that we want to put in place. We consolidate our lists of priority students at the end of every term and we identify who the student is at risk of not achieving credits, what are their reasons and what our next steps are for the student. We share this across our department so we all aware who needs support and what support has been put in place.

STEPSWeb - This is a great literacy initiative that has been introduced to us by our Learning Support Team (Mrs Mary-Anne Wyatt and Ms Vivienne Jensen-Jones). We are looking forward to working with this online tool with our Year 9 and Year 10 English students.

Library Period - Prioritize our library period (once a week) for all of your Year 9 and Year 10 English classes. We will use this period of time in the library to continue our StepsWeb program and reading programs. 

91926 - This is a new internal assessment that we are going to be rolling out in Term 3. We are looking forward to using time this term to understand the assessment and design a study and framework that we can implement to help our student. I am hoping to work with our NCEA Implementor facilitator who has helped us with our NCEA Level 1 English curriculum refresh. 

Term 2 is a short term so we are looking at making sure that we use the time well and get our students through our curriculum over the next 9 weeks. In my next post I am going share our learning program for Term 2 for our Junior and Senior English cohort.