Seminar thank yous

Thanks to all those teachers who came to our Seminar today. We hope that today came up to your expectations and that you have left with at least one practical idea each that you can use to create better learning opportunities for children.

Thank you for sharing your portfolios and ideas with us all.

Thanks must also go to the teaching team from Whangaparoa Baptist Kindergarten who so generously shared the work they did with Barbara last year as part of a Kei Tua o te Pae Professional Learning programme. What an inspiring group you are!

Some new reading...

The next and final installment of the Kei Tua o te Pae series of booklets should be out by the end of this month or early March. Keep an eye out for them.

ERO has reviewed the sector implementation of the Self Review Guidelines and this report will soon be available on their Publications page

Māori Children in Early Childhood: Pilot Study is available from the ERO site as well.

2009 PD begins

So here we are again.

Some of you will already have had a phone call or even a visit from your KtotP facilitator for this year.

Our team this year comprises
Barbara Watson- .9 on our contract and .1 on the Te Whaariki PD contract
Tanya Brand - .5 on KtotP and .4 on Te Whaariki
Maureen Perkins- .5 Ktotp , .1 regional director and .2 national director
and our newest member in Northland will be introduced just as soon as she has signed her contract!