Te Taumata o Ngati Whakaue Iho ake Science connections

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Morning tea discussion creating local curriculum through Wiremu.?

All ini in different places on the spectrum 

Programme for teachers 

 Places , stories, 

Linking of Taonga - icon tour ?..

Should we action renaming HES ?

Linking the stories or legends to science eg a flute being heard across the lake check out the science waves.

matakokiri scientists makes sense of the world 

Matariki - science link ?

 Wananga invite all whanau to the learning so when they go home they discuss 

Bolster the amount of science 

Start with what you know and go from there.

Engaging scientists with whanau and community.

Hands on 

Pulling science into enviro schools 

WhAkapapa genetics 

Senses 

Crest awards 

House of Science

Complete kits 

The most important thing is the connection and the narrative. 

Stories hook the tamariki . 

Barbara Ala'alatoa Chair Education Council

Supporting system changes for quality learning.

Think about what collaboration looks like . Mm 

Rawiri Waru

Lucky to have been eldest  moko reo by osmosis 


Kura part of the Kaupapa  the community

 education is in your blood  - playing the tupuna card - this is what you do 
Absent from school doing concerts - science teacher gave him experiments to do while at Whakarewarewa. 
Skills he had teachers noticing and enhancing skills .
Past teachers continued to encourage .
Researched understandings of ancestors re the relationship between various hot pools and scientific relationship.

Kingi Biddle -National Toastmasters Champion .

Maintaining the korero skills of the tribe

Marae  is the first school 

Jumped in the waka and go for a journey .

Not what they could do  but who they were .

Every child is looking for his place when they enter our school.

This is what we do. 

Ngati Whakaui strategy is to give back .

As the children play the door of the meeting house is open so the children can hear the talk. 

 Knowledge dies if it is not passed on . 

Turn taking on marae is about balance .
Last speaker brings mana back to tangata whenua.

Role of the teacher is to open the window. Use the latch .

Resilience

This led to the consideration of teaching and learning Mindfulness. 5 teachers took up the offer of a Mindfulness course on -line and 1 class has trialled a mindfulness programme with their learners.

Resilience

This led to the consideration of teaching and learning Mindfulness. 5 teachers took up the offer of a Mindfulness course on -line and 1 class has trialled a mindfulness programme with their learners.

Tawera Nikau CoL

• Leadership
• Good leader 
•  Listener 
•  True to self 
• Connects with community 
• Change is the constant 
• Matakite. Visionary

Kingitanga

Kuia are the leaders.

Importance of belonging and identity.

Culture  and values if these are compromised decline in culture.

High benchmark

 HCCoL how do we do things around here ? 

Collaboration a group of people working together for an agreed outcome 

collaborating for Excellence

Hon Hekia  Parata 

Future focused .

Teachers council and MOE

Consensus driven .

quality of leadership and teachers 

Expectations of whanau community.

Why do we reasses 5 year olds when they come with a portfolio?

Learning and quality of teachers for every child.

CoL is in addition to other clusters .

 Flaw in the system is seamless pathway. 

Teacher lead innovation fund TLIF.dea must be scalable  

How much learning growth has been caused.

Your school is your marae. you make your rawa.

Talking seats representative s of event and seniority.

On the marae leadership is in various places .

Every marae wants people to speak of the visit and the learning.

Classroom experts  develop areas of expertise and share. 

Competency and capability contributes to leadership Ngati Parou. Not gender 

Marcus Akuhata -Brown

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Inspirational and real .

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Marcus Akuhata-Brown went back home to the small rural town where he grew up, to look after his father, who was recovering from a major illness.  In doing so he found himself back in the place where he spent his childhood. He began a journey to challenge himself to find out where he had come from - who were his ancestors? 

 His small rural home was a challenging place as it had no electricity, running water or any other modern comforts.  He discovered that one of his ancestors was orphaned through war and needed to re-establish her connection with family living elsewhere. This made him think about ...Loss of Connection

Loss of Connectedness for the young people in our schools  Loss experienced in their lives. 

How does this express itself? 

What emotions are they living with? grief, loneliness, anger ? 

They may have lost a connection with family – mothers, fathers, or significant others in their lives.

Where can they go to re-establish a connection?  As teachers we may be the link back to connection for these children! 

Children with no vision – no intentionality or purpose in their lives. This lack of vision can stem from the lack of Mana in their lives! 

Marcus discovered that Waiata can help you process emotion – it  can link you to the past – eg By the rivers of Babylon- this is a song from a people group that had been taken as slaves to a foreign land.  They sang ‘How can we sing our song in a strange land’  They had lost their connection.  How  can a person re-acquire mana? What are we doing helping this process?

Sometimes looking back – gives meaning to looking forward.

Fleas under a glass lid of lowered expectations don’t jump very high anymore.    

What are your expectations! 

In Marcus’s last years at high school, a Moko artist  who had graduated went back to his high school roots to talk to the boys .  He inspired them. He taught from the heart.  Marcus was inspired  to stay at school and the following year he was chosen to be a Year 13 prefect . 

We need to focus on the good – not the bad. 

 Invest in the potential that you seen in others!!  Keep on encouraging others!  Lift the lid for others.

You can never underestimate what will happen in someone else's life when you choose to be the difference.

What makes a difference?  Programs? – no, it’s people!! ..making good choices – you are the difference that you want to see in the world.