Approach to Learning

 

Learners at Manaia School

• Have control over their learning - they know how they learn best and have choice about the context in which they learn.
• Know what they know and how to get better.
• Learn in a safe and secure environment in which it is safe to have a go, safe to fall, safe to get back up and keep going.
• Interact with others.
• Are actively engaged.
• Experience a balance of challenge and support.
• Know that learning is more than finding the right answer (surface features), it is also about finding multiple approaches to solving a problem (deep structures).
• Are expected to achieve.

Teachers at Manaia School

• Ensure strong, trusting relationships form a foundation for learning.
• Make learning visible.
• Provide multiple opportunities for learners to learn.
• Reflect daily on their teaching and the impact they are having.
• Are Learners themselves and use internal inquiry and collaborative conversations to unpack practice to ensure a continuous cycle of improvement.
• Continually ask ... What is the shift that has happened?  What interventions caused the shift?  Where to next?

Community Learning Partnership

• Hopes and dreams.
• Regular reporting.
• Informal and formal conversations.
• Whānau empowered to share responsibility for learning.
• Localised Curriculum - utilising experts in the community.

Our school commits to raising student achievement through ...

• Effective teaching practice.
• High expectations of achievement
• A consistent daily focus on Reading, Writing and Mathematics across the curriculum.
• A consistent focus on the wider curriculum through play, inquiry and student-let learning.
• The explicit teaching and social coaching of Key Competencies and Values.
• building strong, empowering school and community learning partnerships.