Meeting 4: Thursday 12 May.

Minutes:

We discussed the current report comments document which is in the ellps folder.
This is still a useful document, teachers are using it as a base and then adding relevant classroom comments.
We looked at a new document which breaks down each stage into the 4 areas, We thought this was also a useful document, which went a bit deeper and gave more detailed comments.  We also though it was a useful document when quickly assessing a new ellps student.
We decided to keep both documents in the ellps folders, for teachers to refer to when writing reports.

We discussed report writing for students who have just recently started. We decided that ells students who have been at our school for less than a term will receive a settling in letter. Anna will add some examples into the school wide ells folder.

We discussed our ells resource box, and decided this needs to be shared with all teachers. Regula suggested a games box which teachers could borrow for ells students to work on in class. We decided to set this up straight away and will start adding resources to this immediately.



Actions: 

Teachers to share the new document for report writing at their next team meeting.

All to add to games/puzzles resource box.

Teachers to share the ells resource box and games box at their next team meeting, and invite teachers to add to it.

Anna to add examples of settling in letter to ells folder.

Angela to finalize ellps report formats and share templates with all staff.


Next meeting:  

We will all bring a game, app or website to share.  We will create a document with all of these on it for the games resource box.

Discuss the idea of parent/family support/contact for new families that come to the school.