Aspiration Statement/Tauākī Wawata
Kāhui Ako ki Orewa believes in all students becoming literate adults through effective literacy programmes. All of the students across the Kāhui kura will learn to read and write to a standard where they can reach their potential.
Strategic Initiatives/Ngā Kaupapa Rautaki
- Support teachers’ implementation of structured literacy and tiered approaches in their schools and classrooms.
- Work with our Kāhui Ako ki Orewa kaiako to significantly develop structured literacy capability.
- Work with structured literacy experts to expand my own and other literacy leaders’ capabilities.
- Work as a rōpū of literacy leaders from all kura within Kāhui Ako ki Orewa to connect, support and upskill each other.
- Develop a clear learning pathway and transition for our priority learners in literacy between primary school and college.
Rationale/Te Take Why? He aha ai?
Why focus on Structured Literacy and a tiered approach?
To improve the levels of achievement in our schools by providing robust programmes that are based on explicit methods of teaching literacy.
A structured literacy approach is sequential, systematic, cumulative and diagnostic. This will ensure that the learning of the skills needed to read and write are taught explicitly within our schools.
Structured Literacy stems from the Science of Reading which is a vast body of scientifically-based research about reading and barriers related to learning to read and write. Structured Literacy is evidence-based for effective teaching and will improve student outcomes.
The opportunity to adapt and build the capability of teachers’ practice will enhance the educational outcomes for all of our students across the Kāhui Ako in literacy.
Measures/Ngā Mēhua
- Collaborate, collect and document teacher voice within Kāhui Ako ki Orewa.
- Collated data from the Kāhui schools on literacy achievement.
- A collaborative network of representatives from each kura set up and functioning to support Structured Literacy and a tiered approach within our schools.
- A cohesive pathway for acquiring literacy skills throughout our Kāhui schools from years 0-13 that supports all learners.
Goals/Ngā Whāinga
For all schools in our Kāhui Ako to be implementing Structured Literacy and tiered approaches as a part of their curriculum.
For Kaiako to be familiar with and upskilled in the teaching of literacy using the latest evidence-based practices
