MEETING DATES/PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Term 32018
Termly Meetings
Meeting / Date/Time / Venue / WhoHead Teacher Meetings / See Attached Information / All Head Teachers and VTs
Regional Staff Meetings / See Attached Information / All Staff
Senior Head Teacher Meeting / 5 September
9:30am – 3:00pm / WMK Office / All SHTs
New Head Teacher Meeting / 13 September
9:00am – 3:00pm / WMK Office / All NHTs
Cluster Meetings
Learning Support Network Meetings3:30pm – 5:00pm / To be confirmed / All teachers welcome
UPLC Meeting / 8 August
3:30pm to 5:00pm / Oxford Crescent School,
Upper Hutt / All Upper Hutt teachers welcome
Pasifika Learning Support Meeting / 15 August
6:00pm to 7:30pm / Toru Fetu Kindergarten,
Porirua / All Pasifika teachers welcome
First Aid Refresher Courses
Red Cross / 12 July9:00am – 4:00pm / Porirua Club
Red Cross / 17 July
9:00am – 4:00pm / Porirua Club
First Aid Revalidation / 2 October
9:00am – 4:00pm / Porirua Club
Red Cross / 5 October
9:00am – 4:00pm / Porirua Club
First Aid Revalidation / 9 October
9:00am – 4:00pm / Porirua Club
Red Cross / 11 October
9:00am – 4:00pm / Kāpiti Emergency Operations Centre
Kapa Haka
6 September, 18 October4:00pm – 5:30pm / Association office
13 September, 25 October
4:00pm – 5:30pm / Totara Park Kindergarten
30 August,20 September
4:00pm – 5:30pm / Greytown Kindergarten
Professional Learning and Development (PLD)
What / Date/Time / Venue / Led by / WhoInduction and Mentoring
Introduction to the new Code and Standards for the teaching profession.
Induction and Mentoring
Educative Mentoring for Mentors and
Sharing Induction and Mentoring folders
(please bring your folder along) / July 12
9:00am – 12:00pm / Mana Cruising Club / Catha Ritchie, Paula Hunt, Helen Tyrell, Lynette Wray / PCTs, Mentors and all teachers welcome
100
July 12
1:00pm – 3:00pm / Glenda Rowe / PCTs and Mentors
100
Child Protection / July 13
9:00am – 3:00pm / Cossie Club, Upper Hutt / Jane Brook / All teachers welcome
25
Process/Systems & ICT
- Office 365 for beginners
- Digital technologies for children
- Systems and processes to support effective time management
9:30am – 12:00pm / Hataitai Netball Pavilion / Paula Hunt, Tania Jack, Lynette Wray & Soreen Scahill / All teachers welcome
20
Internal Evaluation
This workshop will help you identify what you need to know about the process of Internal strategic review and how to complete this effectively. / July 13
1:00am – 3:00pm / Hataitai Netball Pavilion / Paula Hunt and Tania Jack / All teachers welcome
25
Professional Relationships
Supporting teams to work consistently and collaboratively in social and emotional ways (colleagues, parents, whānau, community, agencies). How we can support this to happen every day. / July 16
9:30am – 12:00pm / Carterton Events Centre – Hurunui Room / Fiona Twaddle, Jane Horrax & Tania Jack / All teachers welcome
30
Infants and Toddlers
A Whānau Based lens on Infants and Toddlers and what this means in practice. / July 16
1:00pm – 3:00pm / Carterton Events Centre – Hurunui Room / Fiona Twaddle and Jane Horrax / All teachers welcome
30
Full Year Services PLD Day
- Standards for the teaching profession and links to appraisal
- Te Whāriki 2017
9:00am – 1:00pm / Mana Cruising Club,
Paremata / Glenda Rowe
Jo Cox / All Full Day Service Teachers
100
Intrapersonal Communication
This professional development workshop will be interactive and based around discussion and activities. This topic is designed to encourage self-reflection and self-exploration. / July 26
3:00pm – 5:00pm / Wairarapa Women’s Centre / Vonnie Kordell / All staff welcome
Are you new to Te Manawa?
This workshop is Te Manawa 101 for all teachers new to WMK. It is an expectation that all teachers inducting into WMK attend workshops introducing Te Manawa.
The workshop is also open to any other teachers who would like to engage with this document.
Workshops will be continue to be provided in different regions over the year.
Separate workshops on Te Manawa for relievers will also be provided in different regions over the year. / July 31
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Karori Community Centre – Room 3 / Lyn Wright / All Staff welcome
30
Te Manawa for relievers
Te Manawa is the document that sets out the criteria for weaving and implementing curriculum throughout all Whānau Manaaki o Tararua services.
This workshop provides an opportunity for relievers to find out what Te Manawa is all about.
Workshops on Te Manawa for relievers will be provided in different regions over the year. / August 2
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Churton Park Community Centre / Lyn Wright / Relieving teachers
40
Evaluation Across The Curriculum
This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to strengthen your evaluative capability across the curriculum. / August 6
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Carterton Events Centre - Auditorium / Paula Hunt & Lyn Wright / All teachers welcome
40
Cultural Competency working with refugee families / August 14
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Association Office / Janice Coldicott (Red Cross) / All staff welcome
30
Environments
Maara Roa
The story of the development of the kindergarten Maara. What happens in the programme has evolved alongside the environments that the team are kaitiaki for. / August 14
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Maraeroa Kindergarten / Maraeroa Kindergarten team / All teachers welcome
30
Te Manawa for relievers
Te Manawa is the document that sets out the criteria for weaving and implementing curriculum throughout all Whānau Manaaki o Tararua services.
This workshop provides an opportunity for relievers to find out what Te Manawa is all about.
Workshops on Te Manawa for relievers will be provided in different regions over the year. / August 15
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Cossie Club, Upper Hutt / Lyn Wright / Relieving teachers
40
Bringing Music Education into the 21st Century: A new way of looking at music in kindergartens
Play is the universal language of tamariki; the way they explore their world, develop physical and social skills and regulate personal responses to challenging situations. Musical play experiences is one vehicle in which teachers can support tamariki through situations of conflict and support the developing brain.
This workshop will provide teachers with practical ideas, through musical and digital technologies that will promote social competency, communication and self-regulation. / August 16
3:00pm – 5:00pm / PaparārangiKindergarten / Catha Ritchie / All teachers welcome
20
Anger as strength
This professional development workshop will be interactive and based around discussion and activities. This topic is designed to encourage self-reflection and self-exploration.
Please note that you must enrol onto HR.Net to confirm your place on this PD - thank you / August 22
3:00pm – 5:00pm / Lower Hutt Women’s Centre / Ally Andersun / All staff welcome
14
Enhancing Self-awareness
This professional development workshop will be interactive and based around discussion and activities. This topic is designed to encourage self-reflection and self-exploration.
Please note that you must enrol onto HR.Net to confirm your place on this PD - thank you / August 30
3:00pm – 5:00pm / Wairarapa Women’s Centre / Vonnie Kordell / All staff welcome
Waiata mō Tamariki (Waiata for Children)
How to implement waiata-a-ringa, poi and rākau for children.
Things to bring – Flash drive for mp3 / September 3
4:00pm – 5:30pm / Trentham Kindergarten / Lou Fruean / All teachers welcome
40
Facebook 101
This is a workshop for your Facebook skills, particularly aimed at administrating your kindergartens Facebook page. We will go over basic use of the platform and easy ways to administrate and create a successful kindergarten Facebook page. You are encouraged to bring questions and queries.
This session is interactive so please bring a laptop. / September 4
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Association Office / Chanelle Huia-Rutten / All staff welcome
30
Educative Mentoring
Educative mentoring is a highly skilled and valued role in the teaching profession. Educative mentors guide, support, give feedback and facilitate evidence-informed reflective learning conversations. This practical based session will introduce the concept of educative mentoring and provide a range of examples, strategies and resources to promote the practice of educative mentoring in kindergartens. / September 5
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Carterton Events Centre / Sharon Coulton / All teachers welcome
30
What is it like for Māori Children?
To aid you in building your capability to be more responsive to Māori children’s culture, language and identity.
This workshop requires us to recognise what the children bring to the context, their inherent strengths and also their traditions and history, their whānau and their whakapapa. Ahau Whānau Hapū Iwi (AWHI) - me within my whānau, within my hapū within my iwi embraced. Building a strongfoundation of bicultural understanding will effectively aid the rest of your journey alongside our Māori tamariki. / September 10
4:00pm – 6:00pm / Masterton West Kindergarten / Lou Fruean / All teachers welcome
40
Educative Mentoring
Educative mentoring is a highly skilled and valued role in the teaching profession. Educative mentors guide, support, give feedback and facilitate evidence-informed reflective learning conversations. This practical based session will introduce the concept of educative mentoring and provide a range of examples, strategies and resources to promote the practice of educative mentoring in kindergartens. / September 11
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Porirua Club – W.R. Phypers Lounge / Sharon Coulton / All teachers welcome
30
Enhancing Self-awareness
This professional development workshop will be interactive and based around discussion and activities. This topic is designed to encourage self-reflection and self-exploration.
Please note that you must enrol onto HR.Net to confirm your place on this PD - thank you / September 17
3:00pm – 5:00pm / Lower Hutt Women’s Centre / Stephanie Brockman / All staff welcome
Te Hītori o Te Tiriti o Waitangi
In order to look at what happened in our history of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, we have to look back, to move forward – what was NZ like pre 1840? / Sept 17
4:00pm – 5:30pm / Moira Gallagher Kindergarten / Lou Fruean / All teachers welcome
40
Facebook 101
This is a workshop for your Facebook skills, particularly aimed at administrating your kindergartens Facebook page. We will go over basic use of the platform and easy ways to administrate and create a successful kindergarten Facebook page. You are encouraged to bring questions and queries.
This session is interactive so please bring a laptop. / September 18
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Carterton Events Centre / Chanelle Huia-Rutten / All staff welcome
30
Resilience Strategies for Children Demonstrating Age Inappropriate Sexualised behaviours
Due to several relatively new factors more children are presenting with inappropriate sexualised behaviour not consistent with their age.
This is one of the most challenging situations for early Childhood and other professionals to address.
As Early Childhood Learning Environments are a primary space for children to play out the issues that they face- Early Childhood Professionals are the ones who are most likely to be in the position where they are required to intervene effectively and with skill around this challenging issue.
This short workshop will increase your learning around:
1)It will help you to understand the range of events the child may have experienced that leads them to displaying these behaviours.
2)Levels of severity of prior incidences.
3)Creative strategic responses to ensure your safety and the healthy ongoing development of the child
4)How to manage the wider components, Child, Family, Team, Organisation and Community / September 18
3.30pm to 5.00pm / Copthorne Hotel, Solway Park, Masterton / Jane Brook / All teachers welcome
30
The Politics of ECE / September 19
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Coastlands Shopping Centre – Rimu Conference Room / Amanda Coulston / All staff welcome
30
Educative Mentoring
Educative mentoring is a highly skilled and valued role in the teaching profession. Educative mentors guide, support, give feedback and facilitate evidence-informed reflective learning conversations. This practical based session will introduce the concept of educative mentoring and provide a range of examples, strategies and resources to promote the practice of educative mentoring in kindergartens. / September 25
3:30pm – 5:00pm / Cossie Club, Upper Hutt / Sharon Coulton / All teachers welcome
30
Facebook 101
This is a workshop for your Facebook skills, particularly aimed at administrating your kindergartens Facebook page. We will go over basic use of the platform and easy ways to administrate and create a successful kindergarten Facebook page. You are encouraged to bring questions and queries.
This session is interactive so please bring a laptop. / September 26
3:30pm – 5:00pm / ASB Sports Centre - Matairangi Room / Chanelle Huia-Rutten / All staff welcome
30
Self-care vs. Burnout
This professional development workshop will be interactive and based around discussion and activities. This topic is designed to encourage self-reflection and self-exploration. / September 27
3:00pm – 5:00pm / Wairarapa Women’s Centre / Vonnie Kordell / All staff welcome
Professional Relationships
Supporting teams to work consistently and collaboratively in social and emotional ways (colleagues, parents, whānau, community, agencies). How we can support this to happen every day. / October 1
9:30am – 12:00pm / Kāpiti Community Centre – Pohutakawa Hall / Fiona Twaddle, Jane Horrax & Tania Jack / All teachers welcome
30
Infants and Toddlers
A Whānau Based lens on Infants and Toddlers and what this means in practice. / October 1
1:00pm – 3:00pm / Fiona Twaddle & Jane Horrax / All teachers welcome
30
Process/Systems & ICT
- Office 365 for beginners
- Digital technologies for children
- Systems and processes to support effective time management
9:30am – 12:00pm / Coastlands Shopping Centre – Rimu Conference Room / Paula Hunt, Tania Jack, Lynette Wray & Soreen Scahill / All teachers welcome
20
Internal Evaluation
This workshop will help you identify what you need to know about the process of Internal strategic review and how to complete this effectively. / October 2
1:00am – 3:00pm / Paula Hunt & Tania Jack / All teachers welcome
25
Celebrating Pedagogical Practice
The Senior Teacher team is offering an opportunity for teams or individuals to share their pedagogical practice with colleagues to acknowledge, and celebrate the great practices we as teachers offer to tamariki and whānau.
You may want to share about Effective or Innovative Practice, Bush Programmes, Enviro Schools, or anything that is unique to your Kindergarten or your own practice.
Each team or individual will have a 30 minute presentation slot to present their pedagogical practice (20mins to share and 10mins to allow for any questions).
If you are interested in being part of this, please send a blurb to Tania; for consideration. / October 3
9:30am – 1:00pm / Copthorne Hotel, Solway Park, Masterton / Tania Jack / All teachers welcome
50
Child Protection / October 3
9:30am – 1:00pm / Coastlands Shopping Centre – Rimu Conference Room / Jane Brook / All teachers welcome
25
Poi Making
Learn to make poi the proper way!
Things to bring: 2 balls wool, 2 plastic bags (shopping) pair scissors. / October 3
1:00pm – 3:00pm / Miramar Central Kindergarten / Lou Fruean / All Staff welcome
30
Ukulele Workshop
Learn to play, leave your tuner at home!
You will need to bring your ukulele and a flash drive to participate. / October 11
1:00pm – 3:00pm / Paraparaumu Kindergarten / Lou Fruean / All Staff welcome
30
Full Year Services PLD Day
Content to be confirmed / Oct 13 / Cossie Club, Upper Hutt / TBC / All Full Day Service Teachers
100
Please put these dates in your diaries. As you can see there are some PLD opportunities offered throughout the term. You can enrol for all PLD on HRNet. Course descriptions will be sent to you at the beginning of the term.
Head Teacher Meetings
Term 3 2018
Kāpiti and Horowhenua31 July - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Te Takere – Rimu Room, Levin
Sharon Coulton and Lynette Wray
Arohanui
Betty Montford
Fanau Pasifika
Ngahina
Otaki
Paraparaumu
Parsons Avenue
Raumati Beach
Raumati South
Taitoko
Te Timatanga Hou
Waikanae
14 / Porirua City
1 August - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Whānau Manaaki Association Office
Sharon Coulton and Paula Hunt
Adventure
Ascot Park
Awatea
Brian Webb
Discovery
Etu Ao (Visiting Teachers)
Katoa
Maraeroa
Moira Gallagher
Nuanua
Papakowhai
Paremata
Plimmerton
Pukerua Bay
Tairangi
Tawa Central
Titahi Bay
Toru Fetū
Tui Park
Waitangirua
25 / Wairarapa
2 August - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Carterton Events Centre
Sharon Coulton andCatha Ritchie
Carterton
Greytown
Kahurangi
Lansdowne
Manaia
Martinborough
Masterton West
Meta Riddiford
South End
Una Williams
York Street
11
Wellington City North
7 August - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Karori Community Centre
Sharon Coulton and Fiona Twaddle
Bellevue
Campbell
Churton Park
Johnsonville
Johnsonville West
Karori
Khandallah
Newlands
Ngaio
Northland
Onslow
Papararangi
Sunshine
Wadestown
15 / Wellington City, South & East
8 August - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Wellington SPCA - The Wilberforce room, Newtown
Sharon Coulton and Lynette Wray
Berhampore
Brooklyn
Hataitai
Island Bay
Lyall Bay
Matairangi
Miramar Central
Miramar North
Newtown
Owhiro Bay
Pikopiko
Seatoun
Strathmore
Tai Tamariki
Wellington South
17 / Upper and Lower Hutt
9 August - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Cossie Club
Sharon Coulton and Andy Cairns
Birchville
Brown Owl
Cottle
Doris Nicholson
East Harbour
Heretaunga
Irmgard Ritchie
Matariki
Petone
Petone Beach
Silverstream
Totara Park
Trentham
Upper Hutt
15
Regional Staff Meetings
Term 3 2018
Wellington City North21 August - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Johnsonville Club
Sharon Coulton, Paula Hunt Lynette Wray
Bellevue
Campbell
Churton Park
Johnsonville West
Karori
Khandallah
Newlands
Ngaio
Northland
Onslow
Paparangi
Sunshine
Wadestown
60 / Kāpiti and Horowhenua
22 August - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Southward Car Museum
Sharon Coulton, Paula HuntandFiona Twaddle
Arohanui
Betty Montford
Fanau Pasifika
Ngahina
Otaki
Paraparaumu
Parsons Avenue
Raumati Beach
Raumati South
Taitoko
Te Timatanga Hou
Waikanae
65 / Upper and Lower Hutt
23 August - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Cossie Club
Sharon Coulton, Andy Cairns and Tania Jack
Birchville
Brown Owl
Cottle
Doris Nicholson
East Harbour
Heretaunga
Irmgard Ritchie
Petone
Petone Beach
Silverstream
Totara Park
Trentham
Upper Hutt
70
Wellington City, South and East
28 August - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Wellington SPCA - The Ward, Newtown
Sharon Coulton, Lynette Wray & Helen Tyrell
Berhampore
Brooklyn
Hataitai
Island Bay
Lyall Bay
Matairangi
Miramar Central
Miramar North
Newtown
Pikopiko
Seatoun
Strathmore
Wellington South
70 / Wairarapa
29 August - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Carterton Events Centre
Sharon Coulton, Catha Ritchie and Tania Jack
Carterton
Greytown
Kahurangi
Lansdowne
Manaia