Wellington Catholic Schools Kāhui Ako

Wrapped up warmly away from the sleet and snow, the Kāhui Ako Leadership Team held our termly Principals' meeting at Cardinal McKeefry School. Kaye Brunton of Evaluation Associates led an excellent session where we reflected on the last five years. It's amazing looking at what has been achieved by our Kāhui Ako and so exciting thinking about what's to come. Thank you to everyone for their mahi today.

The next webinar in our Post Secondary Transitions Webinar Series is on Thursday 18th August from 5 - 6pm. This webinar will feature Madeleine Taylor from People Skills Consulting and Greg Spencer, a Clinical psychiatrist who will share strategies for coping with life after school. Register using the QR Code on the poster or use this link: https://forms.gle/mXnDppdJgU8dEH7q6

There are some great resources on this page around mental health and trauma, especially relating to covid and also war and conflict. There are explanations around developmental trauma as well as ideas for activities in the classroom to promote calm and opening up. There are lots of pdf's that could be really useful to have on a staffroom wall or as a discussion point in a staff meeting:

Resources Beacon House is passionate about developing freely available resources so that knowledge about the repair of trauma and adversity is in the hands of those who need it. Please feel free to use our resources in your home or work setting.

Following on from our previous post, these webinars are also worth looking at: https://www.ollielovell.com/errr/
Topics covered include formative assessment, literacy, explicit instruction, vocabulary instruction etc

Education Research Reading Room Podcast | Ollie Lovell The Education Research Reading Room (ERRR Podcast) brings together inspiring educators for engaging discussions on key issues in education

Just a quick plug for the Education Hub as an amazing place to do some reading about many different aspects of current thinking in education. This page has a variety of webinars from top researchers and professional advisers on areas ranging from trauma to literacy, motivation to hybrid learning and many many more:

Webinars for school teachers - THE EDUCATION HUB Join the experts for online discussions on topics that matter to school teachers. You can book in for upcoming webinars and see the archive of past ones here. If you’ve registered on our site, we can alert you when new webinars are scheduled.

Just a heads up that registrations for the Midwinter Hui on July 8th have now closed. If you haven't signed up please see our website to choose your option of session and lunch and pass the information onto your WSL / ASL.

The venues for the day will be as follows:

Wellbeing “Take charge of your wellbeing - moving from awareness to action” - St Francis de Sales (Island Bay)

Restorative Practice “Forming strong learning relationships, based on mutual respect and understanding” Cardinal McKeefry (Wilton)

Evaluative Practice “How do we know we are making a difference?” St Mary’s College (Thorndon)

Culturally Sustaining Practice “How much change are we really prepared to make?” St Catherine’s College (Kilbirnie)

https://scienceacademy.co.nz/content/scienceAcademies.php
This free course aims to provide primary teachers with the skills, resources and confidence to teach the science curriculum - definitely worth having a look. The courses are in Hamilton in July in Christchurch in October.

2022 Science Academies Details about the Sir Paul Callaghan Science Academy.

We are so excited to finally open registrations for our Midwinter Hui which will take place on the last day of this term (8th July). There will be 4 sessions to choose from, each at a different venue, allowing you to delve deeper into an area that interests you. The options are Wellbeing, Restorative Practice, Evaluative Practice and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy. See the poster below and also our website for more details.
Morning tea and lunch will be provided at each venue (make your option on the registration form).

Registrations close at 3pm on Friday 3rd June, and the form can be accessed via our website or the QR code on the poster. If you have any questions please contact your WSL.

It's Pink Shirt Day! We hope you are all wearing pink and having great conversations about how to prevent bullying in our kura.
Kōrero mai, Kōrero atu, mauri tū, mauri ora.
This is the great video our schools made last year:

Pink Shirt Day