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The New Zealand Curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007) is the national document that provides guidance for schools as they undertake the broad process of design and review. This process includes the ideas and views of school staff, children, families/whanau and the wider community.
Teachers at MBS have been on a learning journey of design and review of our school based curriculum. These journeys or phases are described as:
- understanding the intentions, direction and obligations required of the revised national curriculum,
- clarifying and exploring meanings for practice,
- and re-shaping the structure of written and practised curriculum (Flockton, 2009).
Our focus is on children's learning and teachers' effective practice. Engaged children know what they are learning and why.
Our understandings about knowledge - how it is shaped and acquired - are shifting.
As a school, and in line with the new curriculum, we have collaborated to further develop our Vision statement and graphic, what we value and how we perceive the key competencies, which we have termed Learning Keys.
The Senior Leaders and syndicate leaders, shared the school's progress at a community consultation meeting and invited feedback on aspects of the 'front end' of the NZC i.e., Vision, Lifelong Learning, Values and the Key Competencies. Our parents contributed their perspectives and thinking - this was a valuable part of the process of review and design:
Click here for Curriculum Presentation.
Click here for Staff and Parent Summary.
Year 6 children open the evening with a discussion on being a lifelong learner at MBS.
Our ESOL interpreter working with some our international parents.
Parents work in groups to share ideas and provide feedback.
