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                                On the 5th March Pauline and I travelled to Dunedin to attend the first ALL Workshop for the year. This was a great chance to refresh our minds about the ALL programme and also meet with other teachers and schools near us that are also running ALL.  Since then I have attended several Zoom meetings with Lauren Latimer who is our mentor teacher for ALL. The first one was with Pauline and Gillian as well and just a catch up really about what ALL was going to look like now after Covid.  I have also attended three online workshops that were also run by Lauren. The first one was about motivation and engagement, the second was an online forum to catch up and the third one was about learner pathways. All of these workshops were beneficial and I will be able to use some of the new learning in my ALL sessions next term. 

Today I had an inquiry catch up zoom meeting with Anne Kenneally from Core Education. This was very beneficial because she helped me understand what I needed to do next. She also helped create a template for me to use with the class to set goals for writing.  These are the notes  that we took throughout the meeting. 

           From the 15th April - 18th May we were teaching online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This was a huge learning opportunity for teachers, parents and students.  In the beginning it was hard to know how much work to set the children. I really didn't want to add anymore stress to students and their families. Each week I added a little bit more to the activities to ease them back into work.  Having a weekly zoom meeting with the class was good to be able to catch up with those who could make it onto the call and see what they'd been up to. I liked having something to do on the zoom call so we did things like a scavenger hunt, kahoots, scattergories and something special to me which the class said they enjoyed.  Each week I tried to have a creative activity to do so that it wasn't all online. This was the weekly project. These were based around things that were happening in the world, ANZAC, Mother's Day and Solar System.  Answering emails and checking work took a

On Monday and Tuesday this week we held our Parent/Teacher conferences. These were earlier than usual as we wanted to get some feedback from parents (and students) about how things went over the lock-down period. These conferences were replaced by the mid year report that we would usually be writing at this time. I had 19 out of 25 parent meetings which was pretty good in most of them the students were also there. All of the conferences went well and it was great to hear what parents had discovered from their time helping kids with their distance learning.