Puna Ako
I was talking to Andy and Karyn today about the strength between whanau student relationship and whanau school relationship. Those are the two lines we need to foster in order to have a healthy school - student relationship.
My question is as we move into more integrated kaupapa and bigger and bigger groups, I think we should look at having Puna Ako an hour a day in the morning. The issues become what do we do in Puna Ako time? What are the practices we should be doing? If we had it first thing in the morning every day and it was a time when Whanau came in for that time. It would strengthen that relationship between Whanau and teacher. It'd be a time to plan their learning with their Whanau. Treat it as an inviting thing.
Issues would be around no whanau turning up - look at Kōmanawa's model of getting whanau in - a few people do it and then it becomes an expectation for whanau to come in.
Could be from 8:30 to 9:30. There needs to be some expectation on teachers to be out in the 8:30 - 9:00 bracket. Our teachers are guilty of being in the office and not being out interacting with kids. I am too, because I have so much shit to do - but there's always shit to do.
I think it's really important to be out socialising with kids - what if we had a breakfast station in each Puna Ako area - from 8:30 - 9. Give us a chance to build relationships - invite whanau in from 9 - 10 would give us a chance to build relationships with whanau as well.
We could have 8 stations of toast, 8 stations of weetbix, 8 stations of milos.
There's nothing wrong with giving students milos in the morning. It's probably more healthy than the bars and fruitcups that we give them.
My question is as we move into more integrated kaupapa and bigger and bigger groups, I think we should look at having Puna Ako an hour a day in the morning. The issues become what do we do in Puna Ako time? What are the practices we should be doing? If we had it first thing in the morning every day and it was a time when Whanau came in for that time. It would strengthen that relationship between Whanau and teacher. It'd be a time to plan their learning with their Whanau. Treat it as an inviting thing.
Issues would be around no whanau turning up - look at Kōmanawa's model of getting whanau in - a few people do it and then it becomes an expectation for whanau to come in.
Could be from 8:30 to 9:30. There needs to be some expectation on teachers to be out in the 8:30 - 9:00 bracket. Our teachers are guilty of being in the office and not being out interacting with kids. I am too, because I have so much shit to do - but there's always shit to do.
I think it's really important to be out socialising with kids - what if we had a breakfast station in each Puna Ako area - from 8:30 - 9. Give us a chance to build relationships - invite whanau in from 9 - 10 would give us a chance to build relationships with whanau as well.
We could have 8 stations of toast, 8 stations of weetbix, 8 stations of milos.
There's nothing wrong with giving students milos in the morning. It's probably more healthy than the bars and fruitcups that we give them.
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