RURAL AND TEACHING PRINCIPALS’ CONFERENCE 2016 SCHOOL VISITS

Attendees will be asked to choose from the following options:

1. Mount Intermediate & Tahatai Coast schools 2. Te Akau Ki Papamoa & Golden Sands Schools 3. Otumoetai Intermediate & Matua Schools 4. Special School & Tauranga Intermediate Satellite Class 5. & Oropi schools 6. Merivale & Gate Pa schools 7. School (Due to distance to travel Pongakawa will be the only school being visited.) 8. Primary (8a) and/or Fairhaven Primary (8b) and/or Te Puke Intermediate (8c) (Choose a mix of any 2 schools from the three eg 8a & 8b or 8a and 8c or 8b & 8c)

See below for detailed school information and blurbs TIME SCHOOL NAME INFO BLURB 8.30-10.00am Mount Maunganui Years: 7-8 Mount Maunganui Intermediate is a school Intermediate School on a journey. Over the past six years we Number of classes: have worked exceptionally hard to build a 23 + 6 Specialist Classes (Tech/Arts) school that we can be proud of. There has Principal's name: Lisa been significant growth and Morresey transformation as we have focused on Address: 21 Lodge Avenue ensuring that we have a safe and orderly Mount Maunganui environment, leading teacher learning and Website: development and ensuring quality

www.mtint.school.nz teaching. MMI is a PB4L tier two school, with a strong focus on instructional group teaching, assessment for learning practices, Collaborative planning and Integrated curriculum and Open to Learning Leadership. 10.30-12.00pm Tahatai Coast School Years: Year 1-8 Number of classes: 28 The school has very modern facilities having Principal's name: been fully rebuilt recently. Visitors will see Rebecca Power (Acting) collaborative teaching and learning in a Address: 45 Evan’s Road Papamoa variety of settings. This will be blended with Website: Apple device e-learning which continues to be a feature of the TCS learning landscape.

www.tahatai.school.nz 8.30-10.00am Te Akau Ki Papamoa School Years: 1-6 Collaborative Teaching within purpose designed Number of classes: 24 MLE/FLE/ILE (Furnware). 's only Principal's name: Bruce (exclusive) Apple Distinguished Primary School - Jepsen Address: 29 Doncaster School wide Teaching and Learning within 1:1 Drive Digital Environments. Cultural inclusion in the Website:www.teakaukipap mainstream - innovative delivery of Te Reo Maori amoa.school.nz to 600 students daily. 10.30-12.00pm Golden Sands School Years: 0-6 Golden Sands School has been open for 5 Number of classes: 18 plus years6 under and was built as an ILE with learning construction spaces grouped in fours. Collaborative Principal's name: Melanie Taylorlearning is essential to effective practice at Address: 26 Golden Sands ourDrive school. Visitors will be able to visit Website classrooms and see how the teachers deliver

www.goldensands.school.nzour curriculum. 8.30-10.00am Matua School Years: Y1-6 Principals will be met by our school leaders Number of classes: 15 (Dynamos) and given a quick tour of the Principal's name: Tracy Lloydschool. Principal and Lead Team will briefly Address: 145 Levers Road, share the school's vision around Matua collaborative teaching and learning and the

Website: www.matua.school.nz introduction of digital technologies. Principals free to wander to any classrooms and see things in action. Time for a de-brief and ask any follow-up questions. 10.30-12.00pm Otumoetai Intermediate Years: 7 & 8 Number of classes: 27 homeDifferentiated classes and 6 specialist PD for teachers guided by Dr classes Kevin Knight. Principal's name: Henk Popping Address: 5 Charles Street, OtumoetaiCommunities Tauranga, of Mathematical Inquiry (Bobby Website: Maths) led by Dr Roberta Hunter.

www.otuinter.school.nz 10.30-12.00pm Tauranga Special Address: 39 Eighteenth What can we offer? What does a typical special Avenue, Tauranga school look like? Brief outline of the Special School & Tauranga School network across NZ (SEPAnz) and our Intermediate Satellite Principal: Barrie Specialist Teacher Outreach Service (STOS). A Class Wickens walk and talk, through our Base School and then over the road to view our Tauranga Intermediate Satellite.

8.30-10.00am Welcome Bay Years: 0-6 Our school has been on a really interesting Number of classes: 14 journey over the last few years with an Principal's name: ongoing teacher inquiry in collaborative Nik House practice and how this can enhance both the Address: 309 Welcome experience for the learner and also support Bay Rd, TGA Website: teacher practice. Within this journey we www.welcomebay.school. have had to develop a range of systems to work within this model across a range of spaces, as we have a mix of semi-open plan and single spaces on site. Our focus has not been on space or furniture, but on practice and the development of systems and structures that support and enable collaboration at a variety of levels throughout

the school. 10.30-12.00pm Oropi School At Oropi School we have a strong and evolving philosophy of play-based learning programmes Years: Full Primary through Discovery. There has been a natural (Years 1-8) 230-260 progression from our Inquiry based curriculum to children this play-based inquiry approach. It has been up Number of classes: 10 classes equivalent and running in the junior school (Year 1-3) since (3 sets of 2 class MLE 2014 and we are now rolling it out into Year 4-6. Pods) We hope to then bring it into the Year 7&8 area of Principal's name: the school into next year. The programme is Andrew King informed by our links and connections with the Address: 1334 early-childhood curriculum, early childhood centers, Oropi Road, RD3, the Playcentre movement and in implementing our Tauranga 3173 transition to school programme for five year olds. Website: All staff have been involved in play-based

www.oropi.school.nz professional development and our school environment continues to be developed as a resource for Discovery learning: our Kokako Garden (outdoor classroom), Discovery Shed for juniors, our soon to be built Discovery Shed for seniors, "the Gully", and within classrooms. 8.30-10.00am Gate Pa Years: 0-6 Number of classes: At Gate Pa School we have focused on 12 classes catering for children's needs. A Puna Reo Principal's name: Richard Inder class is operating at Level 2 MMI and we Address: 900 Cameron Road,also have a Tongan preschool group Tauranga which is attached to Gate Pa School. Website: Another way we cater for children at

www.gatepa.school.nz Gate Pa is by focusing on PLAY and the many structured/unstructured things we have available for kids to be involved in at break times.

10.30-12.00pm Merrivale School Years: 1-6 Merivale School is Tauranga's only decile 1 Number of classes: 7 school. The school has been through a (2 Māori medium, significant process of culture change over the 5 English Medium classes) +1 satellite unit past few years. With a significant Māori roll from (75%) the whole school including English Tauranga Special School medium has a school curriculum based upon Principal's name: Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. The PB4L-SW Jan Tinetti Address: 25 Kesteven framework has been infused throughout the Ave school over the past 4 years and this drives a Website: lot of practices within the school. With 65% of

www.merivale.school.nz the school roll sitting on the Special Needs roll either for learning or behavioural needs, a big focus is on equity and inclusion. 8.30-12.00PM Pongakawa School Years: 1 - 8 Pongakawa is a genuine rural full primary and will celebrate 125 years of being on the same site in 2017. Number of classes: 13 It has extensive grounds and access to over 25 Principal's name: hectares more as the need arises. It is decile 6, has Craig Haggo approximately 35-40% of students at any one time Address: who identify as Maori and will finish this year with a RD6 Old Coach Road Te Puke roll of between 320 and 330 students. You will find a school with facilities most would envy including a 25 Website: metre heated swimming pool, an 1100 square metre www.pongakawa.school.nzAction Centre and Glass backed squash court. Pongakawa was one of six schools in NZ selected to be a part of the governments learning studio pilot which provided the blueprint for many of the MLE's we see in schools today. It is a completely flexible series of spaces designed to alter depending on the learning and teaching needs at the time. It is green star rated and even after five years of use is still is at the cutting edge of environments. The three year 7 and 8 teachers in the block run an innovative learning and life programme which this block allows for. All students are given a personal 14" chromebook on entry to year 7 and Google Hapara is the backbone underpinning this. The school runs its own technology programme for senior students and you will also see this in action. Our year 7 and 8's have catered for outside agencies including Fonterra and Te Puke Principal's Association and you will get a taste of what they can do. We also hope to find time see the newly developed wetland and lake adjacent to the school and other areas that may be of interest to you. Naturally there will be lots of time for questions along the way.

8.30-12.00PM Te Puke Primary School Years: Year 1-6 Te Puke Primary is a traditional school with 130 Number of classes: years of history that has been recently 5 Collaborative transformed into a Future Focussed learning Co Teaching Learning environment where substantial consultation, Environments revisioning and shifts in Pedagogy / Principal's name: Shane Cunliffe Andragogy have resulted in a curriculum tailored Address: 43 Cameron towards agency of learners and teachers, the Road Te Puke knocking down of traditional cells and Website: introduction of multi-age learning environments www.tepukeprimary.school.nz embracing whakawhanaungatanga and tuakana teina philosophy. Come along and see the shift in pedagogy, school identity, learning environments (old and new) and the emphasis on building leader capacity to impart educational growth, student outcomes and a common language of learning where our Achievers are central to all that takes place.

Te Puke Intermediate Years: 7 - 8 Learning Centres. Te Puke Intermediate students Number of classes: have the opportunity to choose the best learning Principal's name: environment for themselves; Expressive, Excel, Jill Weldon Energise, Explore or Address: 133 Cameron Te Korowai Matauranga. When students are Road, Te Puke engaged in the learning context, there is a Website: greater connection to the learning which leads to

www.tepukeint.school.nz greater achievement. Fairhaven School Years: 0 - 6 Fairhaven has been on a journey in two areas: a) Number of classes: 21 Maori Immersion in a Mainstream School. Our (3x Maori Medium, Level journey began approximately 6 years ago, and 2 & rest English Medium) now Fairhaven has 3x MMI Level 2 classes. Principal's name: Known as 'Toitoi Manawa', we are in our second Paul Hunt Address: 120 Boucher year of offering Maori Immersion. You will visit Ave, Te Puke our 3 classes in Toitoi Manawa, (Yrs 1&2, 3&4 Website: and 5&6) and have an opportunity to find out what our journey has involved during your visit.

www.fairhaven.school.nz B) As part of Hua Pai Maota (A COL before Cols were thought of.) 4x Te Puke town schools Fairhaven, Te Puke Primary, Te Puke Intermediate and have been collaborating to ensure the children of the Te Puke town are receiving the best education they can. (See Hua Pai Maota website). You will have the opportunity to visit two classes working together using ipads to assist with teaching and learning. An HPM workshop is also part of the RTPC workshops.