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2027 Manukau Second Year PCT Programme 4-8

For teachers who teach Year 4-8 students

The structure of each session will follow this format:

All sessions will run between 9.30am and 2.30pm at the Manuhuri Room, Manukau

 

The structure of each session will follow this format:

9.30am – 10.15am Mentoring Time – burning issues, reflection, inquiry, next steps, goal setting, networking, collegial collaboration

10.15am – 10.30am Morning Tea

10.30am – 12.30pm Content Facilitation

12.30pm – 1.00pm Lunch

1.00pm – 2.30pm Content Facilitation, reflection.

Session 1: Starting Back!
 
Effective Teaching Practice and Student Engagement
Culturally Responsive Teaching

Thursday 4 March  2027     9.30am – 2.30pm

am: Effective Teaching Practice and Student Engagement

  • Teacher Hauora/Wellbeing.

  • Refresher information regarding the Induction and Mentoring Programme and working towards full certification in alignment with the current Teaching Council criteria and your own school's procedures.

  • Revisiting effective teaching practice.

  • Developing connected, positive relationships.

  • Reflecting on our inclusive, safe classroom/learning environments, management and organisation.

  • Revisiting growth mindset, wellbeing and mindfulness.

  • Reviewing student emotional regulation and working with children with diverse behaviours.

Presented by Jo Williams

pm: Culturally Responsive Teaching

  • This session will focus on how teachers can gain more confidence and insight in utilising their student's identities, cultural backgrounds, life experiences, perspectives and prior knowledge as tools for more personal and effective teaching and learning.

  • The "funds of knowledge" that students bring from their homes and communities and how this can be incorporated into every day teaching will be discussed.

  • Meaningful, practical ideas and activities through literacy, music, important cultural events in the year and artefacts will be shared. Through Saga’s guidance, we will ascertain where to find, and how best to use, relevant documents and resources.

Presented by Saga Vaisagote-Frost

Session 2:
Enhancing your Literacy Programme for Diverse Learners and Celebrating and supporting ELLs (ESOL) Students

Thursday 20 May 2027           9.30am – 2.30pm

am: Enhancing your Literacy Programme for Diverse Learners

  • Strategies, practical tools and new ideas to help you build on developing your teaching of reading and writing programmes.

  • Looking at literacy through an engaging and purposeful approach.

Presented by Manpreet Dhaliwal

pm: Celebrating and supporting ELLs (ESOL) Students

This session will provide opportunities for discussions around English language learners, what they bring to our classroom, what they need and how best we can support them and scaffold their learning. Practical ideas, activities, resources, documents and websites will be explored.

Presented by Jo Williams

Session 3:
The Balanced Mathematics Toolkit:
Structure, Impact, Engagement

Thursday 29 July 2027             9.30am – 2.30pm

  • Tools to Build your Planning: Master the Learning Progressions. Look beneath the surface of the Refreshed NZC to deeply understand, unpack, and map the mathematics and statistics progressions. You will walk away with the diagnostic tools needed to transform these progressions into a clear, strategic roadmap for your planning.

  • Tools for Balance: Weave explicit teaching with rich tasks. Discover the art of pairing structured, intentional instruction with authentic, real-world problem-solving. Add high-impact strategies to your toolkit that create a dynamic synergy, bringing mathematics to life and anchoring learning with purpose and authenticity.

  • The Mathematician’s Toolkit: Cultivate empowered mindsets. Learn how to intentionally build students' collaboration skills, cognitive stamina, and resilience. Equip your ākonga with the internal tools they need to think, take risks, and thrive confidently as capable, inspired mathematicians.

Presented by Lucie Cheeseman

Session 4:
Visual Communication, Visual Language
and Visual Art Inspiration

Thursday 19 August 2027               9.30am – 2.30pm

This session will:

  • Explore the powerful role visuals play in our everyday lives.

  • Highlight the links between visual art and the writing curriculum; linking visuals with language choices, writing to entertain and to persuade.

  • Link visual language, visual communication and visual art to significant events in the year.

  • Allow time to look at visual art strands, elements and art processes.

  • Explore colour theory, colour wheels and colour psychology.

  • Explore techniques for painting and pencil sketching.

  • Share ideas for daily mini skill-based activities and ideas and mindfulness art.

  • Show the multitude of Visual art ‘prompts’ available to us; getting inspired!

  • Utilize some famous artists, including NZ artists, to learn how we can apply their art styles and techniques to what we can achieve with our own students.

  • Build on teachers’, as well as students’ confidence through promoting a ‘have a go’ culture and that everyone has their own style.

  • Visual Art tips, tricks, essential resources and websites!

Presented by Jo Williams

Session 5:
Neurodiversity and Neuro-advantage

Thursday 16 September 2027         9.30am – 2.30pm

  • This session will outline neurodiversity whilst sharing skills, approaches and practical ideas to support children with diverse needs in a respectful relationship focused way. The main goal in helping children with learning differences is to enable them to achieve their true potential as a learner whilst also building their self esteem.

  • Teachers will be provided with current and detailed information around the range of neurodiversity and develop an understanding of some basic indicators of neurodiversity.

  • Exploring approaches and strategies that make a real difference to our ākonga.

  • Build teacher confidence around developing equity in our learning environments.

  • Highlight the neuro-advantage and taking a strengths-based approach that focuses on participation, achievement, success, challenge and opportunity.

  • Explore effective communication and ways in which we can help to remove barriers and make the learning easier.

  • Useful resources will be presented including digital resources

Presented by Glenn Pressnell and Lisa Sparey

Session 6:
am: Fostering and Developing Creative and Critical Thinking
pm: Gifted and Innovative Learners 

Thursday 21 October 2027           9.30am – 2.30pm

am: Fostering and Developing Creative and Critical Thinking: How we ensure that we continue to develop an inquiry, thinking and questioning learning culture and celebrate creativity

This session aims to provide teachers with a 'thinking and questioning toolkit' of ideas, formats, organisers and resources that can be applied each day and integrated throughout the curriculum. If we explicitly encourage a questioning and thinking culture, it opens up the way for teachers to see how and why our ākonga think the way they do which builds a better understanding of how they will be engaged and how they learn; an integral part of teaching and learning in the diverse landscape we are in. We also know that effective questioning helps learners to consolidate, deepen and extend their thinking and learning.

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At the core, this session aims to present an opportunity for us as educators, how we think or might re-think! We too should be on an inspiring, creative, questioning and thinking learning journey alongside our students.

pm: Gifted and Innovative Learners

This workshop aims to increase teachers’ insight in regards to the bigger picture of what giftedness is, what it isn’t, and how it intersects with other forms of neurodivergence.

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Relevant documents, tool kits, websites and resources will be presented for teachers to use as a guide in identifying, recognising or ‘finding’ gifted learners in their setting. The goal is to help beginning teachers build a better understanding of how to provide for the learning needs of gifted learners as well as supporting their social-emotional growth.

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We will share ideas and activities that focus on enrichment and extension rather than simply adding more ‘busy work’, that will keep our gifted learners more valued, engaged and curious.

Presented by Jo Williams

Session 7:
Movement for Learning and EOTC

Thursday 18 November 2027           9.30am – 2.30pm

  • Sharing ideas for fitness, brain breaks (boosters) and Te Reo Māori movement activities and dance

  • Building teachers’ knowledge and understanding of the physical education component of the Health and Physical Education learning area. The session will not give you all the answers but it will be thought provoking through a range of practical activities and discussion.

  • Exploring the different terminology used in schools, the Health Physical Education curriculum, what constitutes quality PE and participate in some activities that you can play with your students.

  • Embedding the mindset that Physical Education is easier than expected, that teachers’ have the ability to change the rules of the activities and as long as you have learning intentions connected to what you are doing the possibilities are endless! 

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  • Concluding the day sharing ideas and activities that affirm how Education Outside the Classroom (EOTC) provides valuable hands-on, real-world, sensory experiences that enrich the national curriculum.  

Presented by Jo Williams, Nikki Johnson and Florence Rodwell

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