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Transitioning Children To School

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Name: Sarah Brown

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School: Kohia Terrace School

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City: Auckland (Epsom)

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Role: Transitioning Children To School ACCOS Leader

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Picture Transitioning Children to School Team. Left - Gaylene Brownlie ECE Leader. Middle - Sarah Brown Primary Teacher Leader. Right - Alison Spence Principal Leader.

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Our aim...

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ACCoS Early Childhood Providers and New Entrant Community. We aim to be leaders in transitioning children to school.

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The goals set for 2018:

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  • Cohort entry. What are schools doing?

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  • Transition programmes

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  • Supporting children with special needs

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  • Digital Sharing

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  • Relationship building within the group

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What have we done?

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We have achieved 5 meetings with 35-40 people from central Auckland ECEs and schools, (Victoria Ave Primary, Newmarket School, Cornwall Park School, Meadowbank School, Kohia Terrace School, Maungawhau School and Remuera Primary).

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Term 1 Meeting

How to support special needs children. Guest speaker, Felecia Tomich, Kohia Terrace School.

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Hosted at Meadowbank School.

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Term 2 Meeting

Cohort entry/transition programmes (guest speaker Claire Turner, DP at Bayfield School). Hosted at Cornwall Park School.

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Term 3 Meeting

Digital Sharing with Parents (lots of guest speakers and sharing about we currently do). Hosted at Remuera Primary.

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Final Meeting for 2018 Reflection and 2019 Goal Setting

OTHER SUCCESSES:

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We have a shared blog for resources

https://frontlineteaching.blogspot.com/

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What we loved...

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  • that these meetings are in existence (networking)

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  • connecting and understanding expectations (linking the partnership)

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  • different locations (great to see other schools)

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  • interest/value in each others sectors

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  • time to talk about topics in smaller groups

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  • focusing evenings around a topic/PD
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What we could do better...

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  • increased use of blog and sharing interesting readings/articles (or do we switch to a private Facebook page?)

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  • hosting at ECEs (not just schools)

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Topics for 2019

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We identified 13 topics and areas of interest for 2019 and possible guest speakers

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Good luck to Elizabeth Moore (Kohia Terrace School) who is the new Teacher Leader facilitating this group in 2019 and will tackle these goals.

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Thank you for the opportunity, I have really enjoyed leading

this group and watching it develop.

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Sarah

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