I feel like timetable adjustments are taking place each and every time I finish RPI! There is always an element of being flexible enough to make adjustments to planning and timetables for the benefit of our tamariki.
The first change I made was really taking a look at our activities and if I knew that these activities where providing tamariki with a chance to elevate their thinking or more so are ones they could by far, do. It's ok to have a balance but I need to make sure there is a variety. Having a new lens to see through has made me evaluate what these are for. Kupu hou, or new words is something I feel we haven't looked into enough - and at times they don't know what they don't know until we have a discussion and go through possibilities. How do we use these too? We started making lists on big sheets of paper - with meanings and other words that have the same meaning, eg, wharepaku, whareiti - knowing where these are at the marae with all the crowds.
Our session together where we have made our writing like our reading was quite interesting and I was blown away with some of the conversations we had - and this too has been a change, we have been spending more time talking and pulling a part what we are looking at to create deep and meaningful connections. We had just looked at the Koroneihana the week before the tangihanga of the Kīngi, this provided us with another aspect to take a deep dive into.
