The BeLT team met again today with our adviser Mike, two and half hours later we were done! These meetings seem to go forever, with a lot of chatter and talk around things only semi related, but it is still good learning and nice to have that time to just sit, uninterrupted and talk.
The purpose of today's meeting was to finalise the plan of where we are heading and why, what we realised in doing this was that our school vision needed a bit of a re-boot. So the next task is to improve/create/collate the school vision and then present it to the staff for them to critique and hopefully contribute. From here we hope to have everyone on the same page about what it is we are doing and why we are doing it here at Waiopehu.
The idea was still chucked around about potentially running a Year 9 digital class next year, but the logistics of that still need to be worked out. Do we get students to bring their own device? Do we provide them with a device? Noel Leeming Levin is running an evening for parents and students to attend to promote devices. We just need to make sure our students all come with the same thing. How we do that, we are not sure just yet.
We proposed the idea of inviting all the schools in the area to an e-learning teacher only day at the beginning of 2015 similar to the day we ran for our own staff. This would allow us to connect and collaborate with the teachers of Horowhenua and form some solid professional relationships. There is so much to learn from each other.
Our next meeting is Wednesday after school to which we should have a draft school vision.
