Keeping Up with Mrs Faalili

 After our PLG on Thursday and the chance to talk with other CoL teachers from across the cluster, there is a need within my own school as well as across the cluster for a transition programme that supports our whanau and tamariki who are moving from Year 8 into Year 9 at Tamaki College.  There are a couple of reasons as to why this has been my selected focus for the year - There is currently no transition programme within my school that supports this transition - There is currently no transition programme within our cluster that supports this transition into Tamaki - Tamaki isn't always the first choice high school for our families and a lot of our children end up here because they miss out on out of zone schools due to not enrolling on time.  - This helps build and strengthen the relationship between us and the family as well as supporting them as they start to move over to Tamaki College.  - I spent time in Term 4 last year online support families through the application process

 As we are nearing the end of a chaotic term 1, we start to think about and plan for term 2. After having put myself and support out there into the wider Kahui Ako, our Year 7&8 team leader reached out asking for support in planning for term 2. In order to support them better, I asked them to send through specific questions and wonderings about term 2 planning and collect some student voice about what they want to learn about - student agency.  It started first with unpacking some of the questions they had about our school-wide key concept and understandings. Digital Identity - what does this mean? What's the difference between digital identities and cyber smart? How can we teach our key understandings - In my shoes, best foot forward, walking together, mark your legacy. What topics do we teach this through?  Once collecting all this, I was able to frame my thinking so that I could  It started with clarifying digital identities and the difference between that and cybersmart. Ti