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Monday 19 May 2008

Today each learning team worked with Emily to make explicit the inquiry process they are using currently to teach inquiry. Each learning team is using a slightly different inquiry model in action which led to lots of lively and valuable discussion about the commonalities and differences in teachers' approaches.

Check out the model each team came up with to describe what they do currently.



10th September Have a look at our school's Inquiry Model. we intend to use this to inform our planning, and also to share it with the children so that they understand the process of inquiry.

At a recent staff meeting, we talked about how we will be planning. Attached is a PowerPoint presentation which shows our ideas for this at the moment.

September 2008 Key Inquiry Skills we have decided to focus on.

We have also pulled together strategies to support the Key Inquiry Skills so that teachers are aware of the resources we have already in the school and how these relate to the different inquiry skills.

November 2008 We have been discussing the umbrella rich concepts that will guide our school as we implement the new curriculum. Today we came up with a list of concepts using the curriculum document, then distilled these to nine important or umbrella concepts. The entire list of concepts, which incorporates Kath Murdoch's list, has now become a 'menu' of rich concepts available to us as we plan.

This Conceptual curriculum was developed in November 2008 to go with the Rich Concepts list. We read through the new Curriculum and pulled out the concepts that came up as important throughout the document. In this way we can say our inquiry units explore concepts identified as important in the new curriculum.

We also looked at the link between Effective Pedagogy as outlined in the new curriculum and Inquiry as a pedagogy.