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**Students to become successful digital citizens**
Kuranui School has developed a shared vision of what it is to be a digital citizen and this is visibly displayed in each classroom, in the ICT suite and around the school as a series of footprints. Kura kids are digi kids and digi kids are SMART- safe, meeting, accepting, reliable, tell. This cyber safety unit was taught at a class level and on a whole school basis and is available on the VLN as a school wide digital story for others to share. See Kuranui School Story



Parents are asked to sign a net safe form when their child enters school. All topic units now have a digital citizenship component from our school wide contiuuum tied it in at the appropriate level for each age group to keep being cyber smart as a focus.

Junior and middle school students only have access to the Internet via the class blog http://room1kuranui2011.blogspot.com/ and the school uses School Zone as a monitor on websites that are available to other students.


 * [[file:ICT developmental continuum.doc]] ||
 * Long term plans have a specific ICT component with skills to be taught and revisited that term. ||

Newsletters and students reports to parents have links to websites and blogs so that parents can access ideas and information. As the newsletter is now accessed online all surnames of students have been removed so that the students are not so easily identified. []

To have a mini focus and look at what we need to revise at each level- either taught specifically or linked to other curriculum areas. To continue with a cyber safety link from our continuum in all our units. To teach new skills as the need arises. To address the needs of new students on the first of June when the traditional farm change over occurs and new entrants as they arrive at school. The administration part of the staff meetings are shared online on a staff wiki. It is a requirement that all staff read it before the Wednesday staff meeting and add relevant comments or suggestions. This makes the business side of the meeting much more interactive, saves time and everyone is encouraged to participate. =** Goal two **=
 * Next steps in our cyber safety education are: **
 * Staff meetings **
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 * ICT development has become a part of many staff meetings with staff sharing expertise and the professional development meetings that they have attended. ||

** Principals to lead the integration of e learning in their schools ( strategic and operational) **
As a school we have made good use of the ICT Facilitator over the last two years and all staff have had the benefit of spending one on one time with her.(see staff meeting segment up above) This has been enabled by the Principal being willing to cover the release for teachers. We also have staff experts who are very willing to share expertise, so a collaborative approach has ensured that all staff and therefore students have been able to up skill in the use of technology over the last few years. An Inquiry learning pathway has been developed at two levels (junior and senior) and this is used with varying degrees of success as we continue to make progress with the Inquiry learning approach. The aim is to have a social outcome,( see learning pathways on the evidence wiki) || || [] || A variety of graphic organisers are included in the units as both thinking and assessment tools. The Inquiry Rubric is included in the learning journal as a vehicle for teacher and self assessment PAT maths is marked online and E Astle is about to be used. Assembly is used as SMS and assessment tool. || || The BOT is supportive and has paid towards an up grade of our cabling (SNUP) so that we are ready when the fibre optic cabling comes on stream. A service contract is in place so that the system runs reliably. We are currently investigating the possibility of purchasing either laptops or iPads to add to our hardware as money has been set aside for this purpose. We are also constantly applying for grants. Two Mimio boards have been installed in the junior classrooms (the money was raised by the fundraising committee) The ICT lead teacher is supported by being released for ICT lead teacher days and visits to other schools through release time and funding. Professional development is available to all staff depending on their needs. (see goal one)
 * Kuranui School has a three year strategic ICT plan containing actions, costs, outcomes and target dates
 * Room 5 students created online books the profits from these are to go to a cause that the chn have selected (Linking hands, helping others) These can be viewed at
 * School wide topics, planning and assessment ensure that we take a uniform approach.

The staff presented their initial unit at a cluster conference, the digital citizen unit has been presented to both cluster lead teachers and Principals and is available as a school story on the VLN. One of our staff is due to present at the next cluster conference.
 * Sharing of skills: **

=** Goal 3 **=

** Teachers to integrate e-learning into their practice creating an innovative and exciting learning environment. **
E-learning is evidenced through the use of classroom blogs [] and chn use avariety of websites eg NZ maths, spelling city, study ladder and other e-learning tools. Students have shared their learning by way of power-points, digital photos, i-Movie and story boards, the use of interactive boards and the production of online books snapfish.co.nz

The results of the Auckland trip have been shared with both the staff and BOT. This has resulted in a change of direction and the purchase of laptops or iPads is to be investigated in preference to desk tops and there has been a small beginning in the use of alternative furniture.

=** Goal 4 **=

** Family and whanau actively participate in their child’s learning **
Parents have had the opportunity to look and see what the classes are doing in an ICT learning day (Term 2 2011) and they were able to take part in a session where the senior students showed them how to create a power- point. Blogs are readily available for access and blog addresses are frequently advertised in the newsletter. The school website has been redesigned and is updated weekly. Parents are able to access the weekly newsletter online and information about the school. [|Click for link.] A computer is available in a spare classroom for those parents who don’t have one to use at home so that this barrier is removed for some families. They can access the school website and blogs and access e-mails and the Internet from school at no cost. We investigated the possibility of putting the BOT report online but this was unable to be done due to our geographical location. Some members were unable to access the documents.

=** Goal 5 **=

** Our story on the VLN **

 * http://matamatadistrict.wikispaces.com/VLN+School+Stories **