National Goal 4 - Participation of Family and Whanau
Lead teachers have created a Facebook page for the school. Teachers were challenged to explore ways to provide opportunities for parents to comment on their students’ writing. Teachers explored a variety of ways to solicit comments on student writing. Some emailed work home, some posted on wikis, and some linked to Facebook.
The Facebook page currently has 97 likes. Some parents have become regular users and comment often on the photos and links on the page.
Overall, parents and students responded very positively to the opportunity to comment digitally on their students writing.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/130852906996810/182443135171120/?ref=notif¬if_t=group_activity#!/pages/Pleasant-Point-Primary/138780979520887 Many requested additional opportunities to comment. Students loved the feedback. Some teachers displayed the feedback in the classroom.
The introduction of the Ultranet will make interactions between school and family/whanau more common and easier.
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•Pleasant Point Primary School Website has links to classroom wikis: http://pointprimary.wikispaces.com/
•A facebook page was developed in March 2011 as another way our school community can participate in the school's teaching and learning programmes:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pleasant-Point-Primary/138780979520887?ref=ts