2022 has seen a great deal of success for children in Rooms 1 and 2 as we have rolled out the Better Start Literacy approach. Our teachers have undergone extensive professional learning during the year, supported by our RTLB Nicola.
The document here explains what it is and summarises the impact of the BSLA for tamariki across Aotearoa.
“Access to equal opportunities shapes communities and makes a difference in the world”
This was the central idea for the 'Sharing the Planet' inquiry conducted in Rooms 2 and 3.
Aliyah, Anaia and Flynn decided to write letters to the students and their parents asking them for donations of toys and food to help families in need.
It didn’t take long, and the first toy donations came in, the team was overjoyed! A big thank you to all children and families who donated toys. Now, we will be looking for the right charity to donate these toys to.
Last Sunday saw the running of the latest pest control meeting for interested groups around Northland. The Bay of Islands International Academy took along members of the trapping group to present to the meeting about what they have been doing to manage the population of pests in the school grounds.
Details and a video of their presentation is below.
We are excited to be involved early in an initiative to rid the Purerua Peninsula of all pests in an effort to protect and grow the kiwi and native bird communities living here.
Great to have Crystal and Rawi take a van load to Whangarei to support the local high school kapa haka group in the festival.
This was an opportunity for our rangatahi, young people to observe (and enjoy) the standard of performance achievable by them and to set their expectations. Learning at its best.
Ka nui te pai ō te rā 😍
Posted by Bay of Islands International Academy on Monday, 10 May 2021
Students in Room 5 have created and shared their recent learning in the class newsletter. Enjoy.
Room 2 shared what they had been working on in their first inquiry of 2021, Who we are? We totally enjoyed their sharing and hope you do too.
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We are really pleased to let you know about achievement at school in the area of literacy (reading and writing) and numeracy (mathematics), year to date (YTD) 2020.
While our IB inquiry style of learning is rich with engaging content covering all aspects of a diverse and future focussed curriculum, we are dedicated to building the levels of literacy and numeracy that will set every child up with the ability and confidence to access all the learning available to them in their world.
Our 2020 published goals for the Bay Academy state that we target 90% of students performing at or above the expected curriculum levels in all of reading, writing and math. This is a challenging yet, we believe, realistic target. It goes without saying that we would want 100%.
I hope you agree with me that the results below are cause for us to be very satisfied that children are progressing extremely well at the Bay Academy. In the year we have had this is massive credit to our teaching team, including teacher aides. Their dedication and commitment to continuous improvement is amazing.
Reading
Year to date we are on target at 90%. Initiatives in the school including Quick60 and StepsWeb are currently targeted at accelerating those in the 10%. A renewed focus on phonics in the early years is beginning to show excellent results for children.
Most schools will tell you that writing is their biggest challenge. We are tracking below our school goals in writing, but we are far from resting on these results. We understand that writing is about communication and includes a variety of expression, including oral and digital. Creating opportunities for children to communicate about what is of interest and relevance to them is constant learning for us as a teaching team.
Maths
Maths progress across the school has been very satisfying. 89% performing at or above expectation represents a strong result so far this year.
Next week is Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Yes, we agree, every week should be Māori language week, and we are committed to keeping this beautiful, cultural treasure alive in our community.
The Māori language moment 2020 is a wonderful opportunity for each of us to use Te Reo, to the level of our confidence or even beyond, to support the journey. Mauri ora!
