9 February 2016

Newsletter Articles

Kia Ora

Congratulations on getting through to week two of 2016!

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Help!! Exit Surveys

Request from a school: Do you use exit interviews with staff? It is something that has arisen from the NZSTA HR self-review that my BOT want me to investigate.

If you use exit interviews with staff, please email them to principal@deanwell.school.nz and I will pass them on.

Te Reo Māori me onā Tikanga

Message to Principals re te Reo Māori me onā Tikanga in English Medium Schools for terms 1 and 2 2016:

Kia ora koutou,

We are delighted to be offering Quality te Reo Māori me ōna Tikanga workshops again in 2016. The target audience for these PLD workshops are English medium schools years 0 - 8 that are wanting to create and/or embed sustainable programmes of te Reo Māori me onā Tikanga into their school curriculum.

Terms 1 and 2 2016

We will be repeating the series of 3 highly successful workshops run each term in 2014 and 2015. Each workshop will be limited to 30.

These workshops take participants from big picture thinking, through to team collaboration to classroom practice. Each interactive workshop takes theory into classroom practice We recommend that lead teams, rather than just individuals, attend the workshops, especially workshop 1.

• Workshop 1 - Creating a Quality te Reo Māori Programme in an English Medium School
• Workshop 2 - Growing a Quality te Reo Māori Programme in an English Medium School
• Workshop 3 - Practice in the Classroom for a Quality te Reo Māori Programme in an English Medium School
• Dates:

Please register by going to our wiki for registration forms, more information and details about workshop content:

We will send out a reminder email at the beginning of term 2 via this WPA network. You can email your interest in the term two PLD workshops earlier if you wish. We will put you on the lists and contact you personally when registrations are due.

There are still limited places available for in-depth, in-school facilitation for 2016.

• We can create packages to facilitate in-school PLD to assist lead teams and/or whole school implementation / review of big picture, team collaborative planning and successful classroom practice.
• If you would like to avail yourselves of these opportunities please contact us soon with your requests so that we can plan appropriately to meet your needs.

We believe that this mahi will help you to ensure a sustainable programme and consistent and progressive teaching and learning throughout your school for te Reo Maori me onā Tikanga.

NB: We do also offer support in languages other than te reo Māori.

Ngā mihi nui,
Nā Jeanne Gilbert
Jeanne Gilbert Consultancy
Pre- and In-service Teacher Educator
43A Checkley Road
R.D. 1 Raglan, 3295
Ph 07 8255728
Mobile: 027 29 42178
jeanne.gilbert.consultancy@gmail.com
http://learninglanguageswaikato.wikispaces.com/Jeanne+Gilbert+Consultancy

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. --Rita Mae Brown

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Hmmm… Leaders

Health & Happiness… Thoughts

Reading… 21st Teaching

A Thought – Listen!

And a Laugh

From Jeff Freeman at Knighton Normal School…

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
-Phyllis Diller

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?
-Phyllis Diller

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
-Phyllis Diller

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
-Phyllis Diller

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.
-Phyllis Diller

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
-Phyllis Diller

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.
-Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.
-Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
-Phyllis Diller

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
-Phyllis Diller

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.
-Phyllis Diller

His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.
-Phyllis Diller

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
-Phyllis Diller

My photographs don't do me justice -they just look like me.
-Phyllis Diller

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
-Phyllis Diller

Tranquillizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.
-Phyllis Diller

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
-Phyllis Diller

The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
-Phyllis Diller

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
-Phyllis Diller

And The Sign Said...

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In a Podiatrist's office:
"Time wounds all heels."

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On a Septic Tank Truck:
Yesterday's Meals on Wheels

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At an Optometrist's Office:
"If you don't see what you're looking for,
you've come to the right place."

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On a Plumber's truck:
"We repair what your husband fixed."

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On another Plumber's truck:
"Don't sleep with a drip.
Call your plumber."

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At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee:
"Invite us to your next blowout."

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On an Electrician's truck:
"Let us remove your shorts."

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In a Non-smoking Area:
"If we see smoke, we will assume you
are on fire and take appropriate action."

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On a Maternity Room door:
"Push. Push. Push."

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At a Car Dealership:
"The best way to get back on your feet
- miss a car payment."

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Outside a Muffler Shop:
"No appointment necessary.
We hear you coming."

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In a Veterinarian's waiting room:
"Be back in 5 minutes.
Sit! Stay!"

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At the Electric Company
"We would be delighted if you
send in your payment.
However, if you don't, you will be."

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In a Restaurant window:
"Don't stand there and be hungry;
come on in and get fed up."

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In the front yard of a Funeral Home:
"Drive carefully. We'll wait."

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At a Propane Filling Station:
"Thank heaven for little grills.."

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And don't forget the sign at a
CHICAGO RADIATOR SHOP:
"Best place in town to take a leak."

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And the best one for last............
Sign on the back of another
Septic Tank Truck:
"Caution - This Truck is full
of Political Promises "

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