Friday 21 November
Dear Parents/Caregivers
Middle
Syndicate Room 4 experience
From next week the Middle Syndicate have the opportunity to
experiment with collaborative teaching and learning in the new space created
from the old Library and IT Room - called Room 4.
This means that we have the chance to be involved in collaborative
teaching and collaborative learning.
Collaborative teaching is teachers working together to achieve a
common goal, more thoughtful, careful utilisation of teaching assets. Collaborative learning is children collaborating
with their peers and their teachers, learning in a way that they learn best,
getting a chance to show initiative and self management.
Why are we doing this? In 2
years time when we move to our brand new purpose built school we will have
shared teaching spaces, and teachers (and students) need time to experiment
with the modern learning pedagogy. We
are the last syndicate to have time in Room 4.
What does this mean for your child/ren? In the morning children will still put their
bag away in their Middle Syndicate cloakroom and then they will walk over to
Room 4. We will return to our bags at
morning tea, lunchtime and at the end of the day.
The format for our next 3 weeks will be:
- · Room 9 & 10 – will be in Room 4 during Week 7
- · Room 11 & 12 – will be in Room 4 during Week 8
- · Week 9 will have different combinations each day (see below)
Monday - Rooms 12, 11,
10
Tuesday – No one in Room
4 (Syndicate trip to Inflatable World & Selwyn Aquatic Centre)
Wednesday – Rooms 9, 10,
12
Thursday – Rooms 11, 9,
10
Friday - Rooms 9, 11, 12
The children are very excited about being in Room 4, and working
with different children and teachers within our syndicate.
Please feel free to come in to Room 4 in the morning before school
(8.30-9.00am) and see the learning that is happening, and talk to the children
about their time in Room 4.
We have also created a reflective blog for our syndicate time in
Room 4, which we hope to add to each day.
http://middlesyndicateshs.blogspot.co.nz
Please visit the blog and comment on our posts. We value your feedback on this learning
journey.
If you have any questions or queries, please ask.
Many thanks
Angela Jones, Martin Bootten, Annameika Jack & Charlotte
Spencer
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