Staff 2015 Meeting Agenda

Mission:
Inspiring Excellence in education Every student
Every Time
Vision:
Somerville Primary School works collaboratively to ensure
every student achieves success by engaging them in the
curriculum at their point of need. Our school community
creates meaningful relationships with strong values.
Date
7th October,
2015

Present: Linda, Jen, Julie, Andy, Heather, Sue, Kim, Jo, Margaret, Shane, Mel,
Belinda, Heather F, Donna, Andrew, Sue,
Apologies: Matt - LSL, Heather F LSL, Sim - LSL, Tiff LSL.
Chair: Donna
Minutes taken by: Jo
Time Keeper: Gemma
Minutes taker for next meeting: Linda

Tight Norms:
Key questions for collaboration:
1. What researched evidence do you have your support your statement?
2. Is the contribution relevant to our school? does it align with our mission
and vision statements.

Norms:
Be on time prompt and prepared
Participate fully
Commit to the meeting and come with an open mind
Agenda

Agenda Items
Item
Norm
Reports

Time
Allocation
2 min
Read Only

Discussion/Read Only

Follow Up

Participate fully
Email to Linda
Course Content Statements are due
by 26th October. If they are earlier it
would be appreciated. Please ensure they
are Proof read FIRST

Literacy Essential
Learnings

50 min

The Literacy Team will introduce:

Brief overview (5 mins) of the Scope
and Sequence Document that shows
recommendations selected by staff as
The Will of the Group:
- Punctuation
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Phonemic Awareness (F 2)
- Alphabet Knowledge (F-1)
- Features of Literary Texts
- Comprehension
- Oral Presentations

Split up into teams (15 mins) to briefly

discuss/recommend
deletions/additions, being mindful of a Discussion held.
balance between Big 6 and VCOP
(Reading / Writing / Speaking &
Listening)
Julie & Donna Juniors
Kim & Sue K Middles
Mel - Seniors

Each Team to report back to whole

group (15 mins) to ensure consistency
and that the will of the group is
maintained

Whole staff to then decide as a group

the Essential Learnings for each level
a tallied number of Essential Learnings
(10 mins)

Where to from here (5 mins):

After this staff Meeting A Draft
Document will be sent to next

**Donna introduced
the development of
the scope and
sequence chart that
has been presented
for tonight. It has
been put together
from the data
collected from all
staff on the
substrands from the
AusVels documents
that they felt
required most focus
(and therefore
should be Essential
Literacy Learnings).

All groups in
agreement for
most of the
presented
essential learnings
today.
Essential
Learnings were
voted upon and
decided.

Literacy Team will

review/prepare
this document at

Leadership/SIT meetings for

discussion/final approval and the
Literacy team will then make this
document available to all staff

Norm Reflection

3 mins

Celebration

5 mins

Reflect on the highlighted norm: Participate

fully

their next meeting

and then forward it
to Leadership/SIT
meetings for
approval. The
document will then
be made available
to all staff
courtesy of the
Literacy Team.
Outstanding effort
by all. A highly
productive
meeting.
Essential Learnings
for Literacy were
selected and
finalised by staff in
this one meeting.

4 Critical Questions
1.
2.
3.
4.

What is it we expect of the children to learn?

How will we know when they have learnt it?
How will we respond when they do not learn?
How will we respond when they already know it?

Reflection:
How did this action help us to reach our schools mission and vision?
What evidence do we have to prove our work made a difference?

Celebration:
How do we share the results of our work beyond our team?
Who deserves extra recognition for their efforts on this work?
Examples of Protocols for: conflict, consensus, to ensure all team members have a
voice. Pg 61 Protocols for Professional Practice. And PLC Academy Handbook
Eg:
Three Levels of Text Protocol
The Four As Protocol
The Last Word Protocol

Chalk Talk Protocol