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Welcome
Term 1 | 2025
Welcome
Term 1 | 2025
Ngā mihi from the ASL team.
Ngā mihi from the ASL team.
Nau mai, haere mai to 2025!
We are pleased to bring you our first Piritahi Newsletter for 2025. Our Kahui Ako is a place where collaboration, innovation, and shared goals come together to create an enriching educational environment for all. Our Newsletter is a place where we can share updates, stories, and effective practices from our vibrant community of learning.
In this edition, you'll find the presenter notes from our Piritahi Kahui Ako Teacher Only Day earlier in January this year, practical tools to support the implementation and understanding of the new curriculum, a snippet about Ai and a range of resources that may be useful for your classroom.
This year, we extend a warm welcome to Carly Barnes from Fairhall School who is rejoining our ASL team. Your ASL team this year includes Cathee from Springlands, Giselle from Rapaura, Louise from Grovetown, Nadia from Renwick, Adam from Whitney Street, Carly from Fairhall and Delyn from MBC.
Dates of Interest Going Forward
Dates of Interest Going Forward
Term 2 - 2025 Dates
Week 6 Piritahi Workshops - Wednesday 4th June
Week 9 WSL Rūnanga - Thursday 26th June 1-3 pm
Term 3 - 2025 Dates
Week 4 Piritahi Kahui Ako Lit Quiz Wednesday 6th August 9:30am
Week 6 Piritahi Workshops - Wednesday 20th August
Week 8 Piritahi Kahui Ako Math Relay Wednesday 3rd September
Week 8 WSL Rūnanga Thursday 4th September 1-3 pm
Term 4 -2025 Dates
Week 3 WSL Rūnanga Thursday 23rd October 3:30 - 5 pm
Practical Tools for Implementing
Practical Tools for Implementing
the New Curriculum
the New Curriculum
We want to draw you attention to this website which is full of practical tools to support your implementation and understanding of the new curriculum.
Your WSL has engaged with a range of resources on this site at the WSL Rūnanga - so they should be able to show you anything particularly helpful for you and your kura.
The website has many planning templates tailored to different Phases and Year Levels, visuals to support your understanding of the changing language of the phases and practical classroom resources that can support your teaching programmes.
Below are a few 'Editor Picks' that we thought you might find useful.
These planning templates are practical and contain the teaching sstatements relevant for your phase/year level. These can be found on the English page of the website under 'English Planning Templates'.
These are the teaching statements in year levels. We found these useful when planning long term in teams. It could also be a tool to ensure that the teaching statements are covered throughout the year.
An overview of the phases and how they align with the old Levels can be useful, particularly when it come to support the knowledge of our whānau. This is found in the NZC page of the website under 'NZC Levels'.
There are also links to specific pages on Tāhūrangi that have planning examples for you to consider. The new site can be overwhelming so we found the direct links on this website really useful.
Teacher Only Day January 2025
Teacher Only Day January 2025
Our TOD in January 2025 included three dynamic and inspirational speakers who shared their expertise in their field. We received a lot of positive feedback from our educational community which was warmly welcomed.
We would like to acknowledge Eve and Anita for developing the vision for the day and for making this happen for our Kahui Ako.
Here are links to the presenter notes from the TOD
Links to reconnect with the presenters......
ANZAC Day 2025
ANZAC Day 2025
Here are a collection of resources to support with your planning for ANZAC.
ANZAC Journal Stories
The ANZAC biscuit (story) Year 4 : Part 02 No. 2 : 1992 : Pgs 44-47
The ANZAC button (story)Year 4 : Level 2 Feb : 2012 : 8-9
Lest we forget (article) Year 8 : Level 4 June : 2014 : Pp 22-30
New Zealand at war (article) Year 6 : Level 3 June : 2014 : Pp 2-7
ANZAC Picture Books
Seddon School Teams
Seddon School Teams
One of our major strategic aims this year was to develop a sense of community, gratitude and giving back to our community to strengthen our ties and encourage our students to develop the sense of altruism that has been shown by research to be one of the best things you can do you for your well-being.
Our Year 7 & 8 students all applied for leadership of one of our 8 Teams and they take major roles within the team. Their classroom teacher has been developing leadership skills with the students via in class lessons that they are able to enact in the teams time.
We meet as teams once a fortnight on a Friday afternoon for 1 hour. We have found this is sufficient time for the students to do the mahi associated with their team, to meet and discuss and to actually be able to do something tangible.
Our teams are Library, Resource, Community Outreach, Gardening, Media, Tool, School Beautification & Enterprise. Each of these teams encourages students to do things for others and to take responsibility for our school and our community. They will work together for mini projects as well. Some examples of what we have seen so far with these teams include; organisation of a stream clean up near our community hall, library cull out with books being donated for the Enterprise team to do a book sale, community food stand from our garden produce & building of resources for our junior teachers to use in their literacy programmes.
Our students are feeling empowered and are showing much greater care with both our school and community. Each team has students of all ages so we are also seeing stronger bonds throughout the school as our 5 year olds have older students they can easily approach when they need help in our school. The students get to work with different teachers and explore their passions with others who have similar interests. We are seeing our middle school students step up into roles they would not normally be able to do and even our 5 year olds are taking responsibility for things around the school.
It has been a huge success so far and we are looking forward to seeing where this goes as we move forward into the future.
Local Sites of Significance
Local Sites of Significance
Mathematics
Mathematics
Maths Warm Ups
Maths Warm Ups
Fairhall students took part in this numbers to 100 task to set students up for success for problem solving. We used this lesson to formulate class maths norms.
Maths Digital Materials
Thank you to Adam A for creating this resource
Maths Digital Materials
Thank you to Adam A for creating this resource
Picture books with mathematical content
Picture books with mathematical content
Have you seen the new Ready to Read Phonics Plus Phonics Cards - Māhuri | Sapling that were released earlier this term. Click on the pick to find them on Tāhūrangi
The Education Gazette | Tukutuku Kōrero magazine is now fully online, making it easier than ever to stay connected with the latest stories, insights, and updates from the education sector. Whether you’re looking for inspiring initiatives, teaching resources, or key sector news, we’ve got you covered.
Here’s how you can keep up with Education Gazette:
Subscribe – Get the latest issue straight to your inbox: gazette.education.govt.nz/subscribe
Consultation is open from 28 January to 28 April. You can read the material and provide feedback here.
Your valuable views and insights will help us to shape a curriculum that works for all teachers and kaiako at every stage of their teaching journey and support all tamariki to realise their potential and thrive in the classroom and in life.
Resources for your classroom
Resources for your classroom
Did you know Spotify has a collection of playlists to support our neurodiverse learners?
Click the pick check them out
The Attitude website is where we learned about Spotify's playlist for our neurodiverse learners. This website has a wealth of useful information that you may also find useful for supporting teaching and learning.
All about books in Aotearoa, all in one Kete.
All about books in Aotearoa, all in one Kete.
Mō ngā pukapuka i Aotearoa, kua whaowhia ki te kete kotahi.
Kete gathers reviews and news about books, authors, events and awards in Aotearoa. Kete forages weekly selecting books for you.
These fourteen recent children's books by Pasifika writers are featured in the Coalition for Books Pasifika Books 2025 catalogue.
The full catalogue includes non-fiction, fiction, plays, poetry and books for children by Pasifika authors, and is a collaboration featuring books from a range of publishers across Aotearoa.
Check out this Science Alice Webinar to find out more about this amazing resource and how you can use it in class.
AI For Schools
AI For Schools
Some schools attended the Holly Clark Professional Learning Day in Nelson at the beginning of the year.
We are hoping to run a feedback session with practical ideas that were taken away from this day in our Term Two Workshops.
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