2017 - half way check

It is almost the end of term 2 2017, which means I have been a sole-charge teacher my almost half a year. So what have I achieved?

END OF YEAR 4

LEVEL	NAME OF STUDENTS			NAME OF STUDENTS			NAME OF STUDENTS
BL3	Auckland, Falakika, Ariki, Hiria, Syraiah-Lee			Auckland, Falakika			Auckland, Falakika,
ATL2	Lopiseni, Joshua, Stanley,  Sosaia,			Joshua,  Hiria, Syraiah-Lee,  Stanley,			Hiria, Stanley,Sosaia, Ariki,Joshua
BL2				Lopiseni, Ariki			Lopiseni, Syraiah-Lee
ATL1	Kordell			Kordell			Kordell

MIDDLE OF YEAR 5

ATL3
BL3	Auckland, Merielle, Joshua, Hiria, Syraiah-Lee, Falakika,			Auckland, Merielle, Hiria, Syraiah-Lee, Falakika, Ariki			Auckland, Merielle, Joshua, Falakika, Ariki
ATL2	Lopiseni, Stanley, Sosaia, Ariki			Lopiseni, Stanley, Sosaia,			Hiria
BL2				Joshua			Syraiah-Lee, Stanley, Sosaia
ATL1	Kordell			Kordell			Kordell, Lopiseni

Reading (left hand column)

• Ariki went down
• Joshua went up

Writing (middle column)

• Hiria, Syraiah-Lee and Ariki moved up

• Joshua moved down a lot

Maths (right hand column)

• Lopiseni went down

• Joshua and Ariki went up

• Stanley and Sosaia didn't move

END OF YEAR 5

LEVEL	NAME OF STUDENTS			NAME OF STUDENTS			NAME OF STUDENTS	NO
L3	Edith, Grace, Lydia,		35.71%	Lydia, Edith		14.29%	Lydia, Edith
BL3	Hevani,  Amon, Suave, Coralee		35.71%	Hevani, Amon, Grace, Coralee			Hevani, Amon, Grace, Coralee
L2			1	Suave			Suave
BL2	Viliami			Viliami			Viliami

MIDDLE OF YEAR 6

BL4	Lydia			Lydia, Hevani, Edith, Grace			Lydia
L3	Hevani, Coralee, Edith, Amon, Grace			Coralee			Edith, Grace
BL3	Viliami			Amon			Hevani, Coralee, Amon
ATL2				Viliami			Suave
BL2	Suave			Suave
ATL1							Viliami

Reading (left hand column)

• Amon, Coralee, Viliami, Lydia moved up

• Suave moved down

Writing (middle column)

• Hevani, Coralee and Grace moved up

• Viliami and Suave moved down

Maths (right hand column)

• Lydia moved up

• Rest stayed the same.

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I found it really difficult to process that some kids have gone down or backwards. However, they might not have in reality. The summer slide leaves students who have forgotten heaps of the things they learnt, and I spent a whole term at least getting them back to where they should have been at the end of last year. On top of this, students act differently when they have a new teacher and it is a possibility that they have not done so well this year because they don't respond to me the same, or possibly that student is in a very different (emotional) place than they were last year. Some students also only come to school once a week. There are a million reasons why that could have happened.

However, instead of beating myself up about it, I am going to focus on the positives. Heaps of kids have already moved up. They have relearnt everything they forgot over summer and have kept moving. Awesome. We have built momentum and they will continue to progress as the year continues.