Ohakune School Information and Curriculum

2011 Term Dates

Term One 02/02-15/04

Term Two 02/02-15/07

Term Three 01/08-07/10

Term Four 25/10-16/12

School Assembly

School assemblies are held each Monday afternoon at 2.00pm. Our assemblies are run by the students, a different classroom each week. We welcome as many parents/caregivers or friends to join us in the school hall for this special part of our school week.

Tabloids Sports

Tabloid sports are held every Friday afternoon from 2.00pm. The students compete in School House groups for points which go towards the winning House issued at the end of the year..Please feel free to enjoy this time with the children and staff.

NORMAL BELL SIGNALS AND TIMES

08.45am 10.00	Prepare Bell (Students to Classrooms Start of the Teaching day) Food and drink- Cool Schools, SMIL and WIT
10.10am	Play
10.25am 11.45am	Prepare Bell (Students to Classrooms Teaching and Learning) Food and drink- Cool Schools, SMIL and WIT
11.55am	Play
12.25pm 1.25 pm	Prepare Bell (Students to Classrooms Teaching and Learning) Food and drink- Cool Schools, SMIL and WIT
1.30pm	Play
1.55pm 2.50pm	Prepare Bell (Students to Classrooms Teaching and Learning) Reflection of day
3.00pm	End of School Day

	Wet Weather Bell (All students inside) Two short rings of the bell

Ohakune Primary is developing a culture of inquiry in to our teaching, learning and all that we do here. Sustainability is a school wide focus integrated across all learning areas especially in our inquiry rich topic approach.

Students weekly assess themselves on the following three school wide goals that are integrated in to all aspects of our curriculum.

S.M.I.L.e: Self Motivated Independant Learner

W.I.T: Working in teams

PRIDE: In our school, In ourselves, In our Community

Professional Development

We have school wide professional development based on the needs of our school. We will be completing a two-year contract in mathematics with Massey University in 2011. The professional development focus for 2011 is mathematics, written language and Physical Education and Health.

Curriculum Delivery Guidelines

SCHOOL CURRICULUM

English

The Arts

Social Sciences

EOTC (Education Outside The Classroom)

Technology Centre

Science

Mathematics and Statistics

ICT

Te Reo Maori & Tikanga Maori

Physical Education and Health

Below are a number of our activities associated with Physical Education.

Skiing	Soccer	Long Ball	Jump Jam

Snowboarding	Netball	Athletics	Swimming

Fitness	Cricket	Cross Country	Dance
			hip hop, ballet, tap, jazz
Pony Club	Mini-ball	Rugby	Touch Rugby

Cool Schools Programme

This proactive programme empowers people by teaching them skills and processes to resolve conflict peacefully. Individuals learn how to use conflict scenarios as an opportunity to build positive relationships with others. Non-violent, constructive, co-operative, WIN/WIN solutions to a problem are negotiated. Agreements are made which are mutually acceptable to all parties concerned.

When implemented as a whole- school programme, it has a positive impact not only on students, teachers and parents but also for the wider school community. Primary Peer Mediation Programme is a whole school programme. It begins by training the staff in a 5 hour developmental workshop which teaches skills and processes that they then pass on to the students in their classrooms. This includes junior children!

The full training session includes:

• History, philosophy and values
• Recognising different response options to conflict
• Role of the mediator
• The mediation process
• Classroom skills
• Handling difficult situations
• Effective implementation
This programme brings mediators into the school playground every day and in the classrooms students mediate their own behaviour, fair-play which is an important element of our mediators process