On Tuesday night about 65 of you, plus the teaching team,
turned up to partake in the joy of Murray Gadd discussing
child writing development. For those of you who were there,
you would have seen the obvious passion and joy Murray
has for writing. Having the children sharing their writing
brought it to life, Murray sharing little anecdotes, giving
practical advice, reminding us that writing is rocket science
for children and we need to remember all of that certainly
went a long way to alleviating some pressure for parents.
He used the word relax often, enjoy even more so! There
was plenty of head nodding when Murray talked about how
often children see parents reading but really how often is it
that parents talk about their writing in the workplace or write
in front of them at home. I also thought about what they see
me do at work - read, yes....... write - well, only on Principal
Awards! He makes it clear, he makes it simple and that's
why he is such a gem! Janet Colson, one of our Board Members, summed the
session up beautifully and, very importantly, thanked you,
our parent community, for all of your huge efforts in raising the funds to allow us to employ someone with the depth of
experience and expertise as Murray has. Having Murray
working so closely, providing this intensive professional
development with teachers and also allowing the opportunity
for this parent session just wouldn't be possible without
the hard slog from you behind the scenes. Many schools
just can't do this. Our teachers and, therefore, our children,
all of us are fortunate. I know many of you really wanted to be there and couldn't
make it. Don't worry, we will have a link to the presentation
on the website soon. Thanks, also, to our committed
teaching team for being at #168 for well over 12 hours on
Tuesday.
Then, of course, it doesn't stop there. Coming up very soon
is the action on the Inquiry - the Art Exhibition for 3 whole
evenings....... Matariki celebrations (a massive day!) ......
then another fabulous opportunity to learn more about
'education today and the necessity for change' on Tuesday,
4 August from our second guest speaker for the year, Mark
Osborne. (See last week's newsletter for more info on all of
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