Week 1 2022 - Bringing a newbie into the CTS waka.

Apologies for the lapse in contact over the last 3 months of 2021. End of term/year and all that. I thought this was a good place to basically catalogue the support I'm giving my mentee. This can be a place that he can look upon and see his journey and also a place where I can reflect on what I do to support (or hinder!). Since joining us a week ago he has been through a LOT of PD. I met with the 2 newest members of staff last Thursday and we walked through our operational document, making sure they know where to look! e.g. Know how to phone is sick. Know what playground duties (want to call them manaakitanga time!) to do, what to do etc. Where to get support for IT, basically all the stuff that used to be in the induction booklet. Then they had a 2 hours session with the Manaiakalani facilitators to induct them into the world of being a MKL outreach kura. Then they had a few hours in their classrooms. Last Friday the whole school (along with 3 other schools) attended a whole day of PD on CPR (curriculum professional resource) on the new NZ Histories curriculum with Tamsin Hanly. There was a delicious lunch..... On Monday we had our annual stupid team game...it's going to be come a traditional I can tell.

We then went through the usual - school charter, professional growth cycle, data from 2021, changes afoot! On Tuesday we then had a full day on UBRS (Understanding behaviour responding safely). None of this excessive PD appears to have affected his enthusiasm! Thankfully. So my mentee has managed to put up a birthday/month of the year display and Number display all before the little angels arrived in the classroom. He has beautifully and skillfully managed to gain their attention and affection within a couple of days. Quite an achievement. Today, after 1.5 days in the classroom settling the children into their new room etc we had our first proper mentoring session. I supported him to: Start work on a medium term and weekly reading plan and gathered appropraite books as well as a medium term and weekly maths plan. We have sorted the students into reading and maths groups according to their ability. We've ordered resources and fixed up his projector to work.

Sylvia to do 1. Get Liana to upload activeinspire onto his laptop. 2. Set up QR codes so students can access the great resources on place value that I found! 3. Order 2 cables and an apple TV for his room. Mentee to do 1. Complete weekly plans including setting up reading modelling books. 2. Plan 2 days of maths relating to the maths plan. 3. Get alphabet display from R and laminate and put up. 4. Set up prodigy for his class. 5. Get P to supprt set up from PM reading online. 6. Get S to support set up of sunshine readers online. 7. Complete big book slides and slides for maths for next week. I briefly explained to him the mentor programme we have at CTS, which mainly consists me of tailoring the programme to meet his needs, but also of the extensive supports that we are able to call on to ensure he doesn't get bored of me, and also he gets a variety of mentors. We all have different strengths to share.

I already need to thank his co-teacher - Mrs H for her support this afternoon at our quick catch up meeting. She managed to support my mentee with his spelling programme, his writing programme. She'd KEPT a hold of the paper swimming water for skills assessment sheet that we can no longer get hold of!! She got us sorted with the move well resource and basically shared her routines with us. So helpful. It has been a good day and a LONG week for my mentee but we got through it. I just hope we haven't overwhelmed him already.............