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What Do We Do At Clifton School?
Our Guiding Principles Are:
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Our school will be an open, welcoming and friendly place for children, staff, families and the community
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To set high expectations in all aspects of school life and to continue to do this through self review
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All children should children should experience success and have their efforts and achievements celebrated.
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All children should feel safe, able to take risks and have their contributions valued
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To provide opportunities for all children to take increasing responsibility for their learning
CURRICULUM AIMS 2010
Literacy - Reading and Writing
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Our Senior Reading focus will be to continue to develop children’s reading skills to develop independent readers.
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Our Senior Writing focus will be to develop writing skills (using surface and deeper features) for a range of audiences and purposes.
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Our Junior Reading focus will be to develop and integrate reading strategies.Our Junior Writing focus will be to develop children’s writing skills mostly surface and some deeper features.
Numeracy
Our school focus will be on developing numeracy knowledge & practicing new strategies.
Circle Time - Behaviour Management
Our school focus will be to refine and develop our school circle time programme.
Environmental
Our school focus will be to develop pupil awareness of self sufficiency through an eco-friendly environment in our school.
Inquiry Learning
Our school focus will be to explore Inquiry Learning processes and link it to the new curriculum.
Children Being Healthy
To promote and maintain 'Hauora' of all our pupils.
Positive Behaviour & Learning
Our positive behaviour strategy is to reward children who are consistently well behaved. We do this thought our "right choice" programme and our school golden rules.
Rewards for good behaviour include our weekly MVP's (Most Valuable Pupil Award), classroom and playground vouchers, class and and assembly credits, Principal Awards and a class and school 'Golden Time' during every term.
Clifton School's expectation is that no child has the right to interrupt the learning of others by displaying inappropriate behaviour.
Should a student to decide to not follow the golden rules, the consequences for this behaviour includes benching, hot seat timeouts and lunchtime detentions.
ICT
Clifton School is completely networked with each classroom having one 'networked' computer. We have mobile computer pod of Apple iBooks with some amazing teaching and learning taking place.
All teaching staff have Apple iBooks, we have several digital cameras, a data show projector and digital video camera. Often our ICT resources are used in Class Presentation Assemblies and is a great way to demonstrate what our children have been learning in their rooms.
All staff and students have signed an Internet Safety Agreement to ensure safety on the net at all times.
School Uniform
The implementation of our compulsory uniform has had a very positive impact on our school and students.
The standard of dress reflects their pride and we continue to receive positive comments from families and the community.
Weekly Newsletter
We have a very informative newsletter which goes home to families every Tuesday.
Our newsletters are a great way to keep in touch with our families and to inform our school community of recent and up coming events and activities.
If you are tired of hunting in the bottom of your child's school bag for the newsletter, join our emailing list and you will receive it via email. Please contact us on 06 322 1544 or email cliftonoffice@xtra.co.nz to be added to this service.
Reading Recovery
The school runs a progressive and pro-active Reading Recovery programme for children who are six years old and meet the criteria for entrance into this programme. Currently we have 7 1/2 hours per week available for this programme.
Tape Assisted Reading Programme (TARP)
This programme is to raise reading fluency in older children. Children work on this programme with a teacher aide, overseen by a staff member.
Special Education Grant (SEG)
Support funding is generated by our total roll and our decile rating. This funding is to help with children with special learning and physical needs.
Targeted Funding for Educational Achievement (TFEA)
This funding is generated by our total roll and decile rating, but is to help develop necessary skills.
Other Programmes
- Term Themes
· - Instructional Swimming
- YMCA Sports Programme
· - Young Leaders Conference
· - House System Leadership
· - DARE
· - Class and school 'Golden Time'
· - Life Skills
· - Peer Mediation
· - Kiwi Can
· - Circle Time
· - Green Team
· - Skills for Living and Growing
· - Pubertal Change
· - Bi-annual School Production
- Cluster Schools sporting, academic and cultural events
Bell Times
8.55am Start of School
10.00am-10.10am Brain Food Break
11.00am-11.20am Interval
12.30pm-1.25pm Lunch
1.20pm End of Lunch Warning Bell
1.25pm-2.55pm Afternoon Session
Extra Curricula Activities and Annual Events
These include – swimming sports, hockey, basketball, Saturday morning rugby, soccer and netball, Jump Jam, athletic sports, school cross country, drama productions, technology challenge, school house leaders, camps, cluster school events and many more…
Assemblies
The school holds regular Monday assemblies for the entire school. In Term Two and Term Four we have Class Presentation Assemblies every Friday afternoon, this is when the children perform items for the school, and to show curriculum tasks they have learnt. Parents and friends are most welcome to attend.
Clifton School has an 'open door' policy and we welcome your enquiries and/or visits to enable us to serve you better.
Neill Gordon
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