Session 1: Starting Back! And Community Engagement that Strengthens Success for Pasifika Students

Thursday 20 February 2025, 9.30am - 2.30pm

Morning:
Refresher information regarding the Induction and Mentoring Programme;

Revisiting the codes and standards, setting goals in alignment with your school procedures;

Reflecting on our classroom/learning environments, management and organisation;

Developing connected, positive relationships;

Working with children with challenging behaviours and creating inclusive environments;

Revisiting health and wellbeing, growth mindset and mindfulness.

Presented by Jo Williams

Afternoon:

Community engagement that strengthens success for Pasifika students;

Guidance around effective communication with parents/caregivers/community;

So’otaga – making connections, building on values, beliefs and a sense of belonging;

Exploring Pasifika culture, values, proverbs, celebrations, protocols and co-constructing

learning that encompasses cultural Fa’a Samoa that aligns with NZ key competencies;

Opportunities to learn greetings, instructions and simple songs through practical activities, useful websites and resources;

Discussion around Pasifika people’s achievements (artists, authors, mathematicians etc) that can be shared with our students;

Further reading/research recommendations.

Presented by Saga Vaisagote-Frost

Session 2: Enriching Your Mathematics Programme

Thursday 20 March 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Revisiting the learning progressions within the Refreshed New Zealand Curriculum;

This session will continue to build both teachers’ and students’ confidence and knowledge in all areas of maths;

Alongside pedagogy, this practical session will demonstrate the importance of explicit teaching and how to apply engaging maths activities and use various resources in order to reinforce and embed vital maths concepts in primary and intermediate students;

Focusing on building the knowledge needed for all ākonga at their level and examine ways to be sure each and every student in your class has this knowledge;

Exploring effective ways of developing student collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills.

Presented by Jill Smythe

Session 3: Student Engagement for all Ākonga including Gifted and Talented

Thursday 01 May 2025, 10.30am – 12.30pm, Zoom Meeting

This session aims to provide teachers with a blast of new ideas and integrated lines of inquiry for their students as well as activities, resources and websites to keep their senior students engaged. An opportunity to think through purposeful follow-up/extension activities and take a look at some Gifted and Talented plans.

Presented by Jo Williams

Session 4: Enhancing your Literacy Programme for Diverse Learners, including ELLs (ESOL) Students

Thursday 22 May 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Morning:

Strategies, practical tools, digital literacy and new ideas to help you build on developing your teaching of reading and writing programmes;

Looking at literacy through an engaging and integrated approach.

Presented by Manpreet Dhaliwal

Afternoon:

Opportunities for discussion around English language learners in our classrooms, what they need and how best we can support them and scaffold their learning.

Presented by Holly Francis

Session 5: Inquiring Through the Visual Arts – Building Agency Through Self Expression

Thursday 19 June 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Thinking about The Arts as a toolbox for exploring, discovering and presenting;

Developing ideas through making and doing Visual Arts;

Practical guidelines for organising arts activities.

Presented by Juliette Laird

Session 6: Fostering Creative Thinking: How we ensure that we continue to develop an inquiry, thinking and questioning learning culture and celebrate creativity

And Digital Technology/Digital Literacy

Thursday 14 August 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Morning:

This session aims to provide teachers with a ‘thinking and questioning’ toolkit of ideas, formats, organisers and resources that can be applied each day and integrated throughout the curriculum. If we explicitly encourage a questioning and thinking culture, it opens up the way for teachers to see how and why our students think the way they do which builds a better understanding of how they will be engaged and how they learn; an integral part of teaching and learning in the diverse landscape we are in. We also know that effective questioning helps learners to consolidate, deepen and extend their thinking and learning.

At the core, this session aims to present an opportunity for us as educators, how we think or might re-think! We too should be on an inspiring, creative, questioning and thinking learning journey alongside our students.

Presented by Jo Williams

Afternoon:

An opportunity to discuss with colleagues what digital technology looks like in schools in the current climate, exploring cyber safety, management tips, integrating digital technology/literacy across the curriculum and an opportunity to explore some of the best websites and apps.

Presented by Glenn Pressnell

Session 7: Neurodiversity

Thursday 11 September 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

This session will outline neurodiversity whilst sharing skills, approaches and practical ideas to support children with diverse needs in a respectful relationship focused way. The main goal in helping children with learning differences is to enable them to achieve their true potential as a learner whilst also building their self esteem;

Teachers will be provided with current and detailed information around the range of neurodiversity and develop an understanding of some basic indicators of neurodiversity;

Exploring approaches and strategies that make a real difference to our ākonga;

Build teacher confidence around developing equity in our learning environments;

Highlight a strengths-based approach that focuses on participation, achievement, success, challenge and opportunity;

Explore effective communication and ways in which we can help to remove barriers and make the learning easier;

Useful resources will be presented including digital resources.

Presented by Lisa Sparey

Session 8: An Insight into Physical Education And Teachers’ Presentations

Programme Conclusion

Thursday 16 October 2025, 9.30am – 2.30pm

Morning:

“Physical Education is the most effective means of providing all children and youth with the skills, attitudes, values, knowledge and understanding for lifelong participation in society” UNESCO 2015

The intention of this workshop is to build your knowledge and understanding of the physical education component of the Health and Physical Education learning area. The session will not give you all the answers but it will be thought provoking through a range of practical activities and discussion.

We will explore the different terminology used in schools, the Health Physical Education curriculum, what constitutes quality PE and participate in some activities that you can play with your students.

The takeaway from this session is that teaching Physical Education is easier than expected, you have the ability to change the rules of the activities and as long as you have learning intentions connected to what you are doing the possibilities are endless! We will broaden your perception of what is possible when teaching Physical Education.

Presented by the Healthy Active Learning Team, CLM Community Sport: Nikki Johnson and Florence Rodwell

Afternoon:

Teachers’ Presentations;

This is an opportunity to draw on the strengths and passions that our teachers have developed over their last two years of teaching. Now that the teachers are approaching full certification, we encourage several teachers from the programme, who show leadership qualities, to step forward and provide short presentations of their choice, showcasing their areas of developing expertise from which we as educators can all benefit.

Presented by the PCT Teachers

Contact & Enrol​

If you are interested in a programme, are wanting to enrol, or have more questions please call Alison Miller 027 544 2924 or Jo Williams 021 178 1672, or use this form to contact us.​