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Circle Time - Peer-to-Peer Conversations

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  This year Park Estate School is launching the SHARP reading programme across the school.   SHARP stands for: success, habitual, autonomous, routines and progressions.  My summary of the SHARP reading workshop: It gives the teacher a set of routines and a script to prompt students to unpack a small amount of text and understand it really well. It seeks to develop active readers who 'wake up their brains' and clearly articulate what a sentence means.  I've done a fair share of reading PLD over the last 12 years, and I was keen to add some more skills to my kete.  At a personal level:  I like the structure and routine (no surprises).  I like the simplicity, not trying to do everything at once.  I like that it seems to be evidence based and have some good results behind it.  I like the focus on developing good reading habits.  I like the element of challenge and in-built self assessment.  I like how SHARP reading provides for lot...
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Māori and Pacifica Giftedness

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