Strong Learning Foundation, High Expectations and Achievements
. Bilingual Teachers.
. Bilingual staff to use their language when appropriate.
. Children to participate in speech competitions.
. Share ideas with parents to support their children’s learning.
. Enhance the cultural identity, self-esteem and educational achievement of Samoan pupils.
. To support those children whose mother tongue is Samoan.
. Selection of new library books to include Pasifika interest, context and role models.
. Use Ethnic readers and tapes to be used in classroom.
. Ensure Pasifika children and young people demonstrate improved progress and achievement in literacy and numeracy in relation to national standards.
. Accomplish every task using Samoan.
. Make connections with their own language and with their known culture.

Parents and Partnership
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Translate important messages into Samoan.
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Continue to encourage parents to use Samoan at home.
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Tap into the creative talents of our Pasifika community to show their language, customs and arts with our children.
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Use successful ex pupils for role model assemblies.
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Encourage parents to take a lead in multicultural festival groups and activities.
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Keep parents and extended families informed about whom to talk to if they need advice.
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Have open nights with parents and teachers to discuss further concerns or celebrate any success.
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Put phrases below into the newsletter to promote the use of home language.

Supporting Identity and Culture
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Utilize all available resources to give the pupils in the Samoan unit the greatest opportunities to learn and use their language competently.
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Having a Samoan Resources Room with provided accessible opportunity for children, teachers and parents to promote Samoan Language and Culture.
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Use kitara, pate, and sticks at assembly and on special occasions.
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Develop protocols to welcome visitors to special ceremonies.
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Add Pasifika flavour to traditional occasions. E.g. Talent Quests, Prize Giving, etc.
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In co-operate Pasifika into landscape plans. E.g. choice of plants, fale and symbols.
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Continue to reflect Pasifika in school display. E.g. murals, classroom displays, hall displays and Foyer.
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Use the DVD of the Multicultural Festivals to positively promote our school.
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Include ethnic foods on Family Fun Nights, shared lunches and Samoan week.
The achievement of the learner is paramount. Therefore, just as culture cannot exist without language and language without culture, so too is the learner without surroundings.

PLAN REVIEW BILINGUAL 6-12-2013
Vision: Five out of five Pasifika learners participating, engaging and achieving in education, secure in their identity, languages and cultures and contributing fully to Aotearoa New Zealand’s social, cultural and economic.

Goals
1.Pasifika learners excel in literacy and numeracy and make effective study choices that lead to worthwhile qualifications.
2. Pasifika school leavers are academically and socially equipped to achieve their goals for further education training and/or employment.
3. Pasifika parents families and communities engage with schools in supporting their children’s learning.
Targets
1.By 2017, increase the number of Pasifika Education Language
Services teaching in a Pasifika
Language or culture over 50 percent of the time.
2. The proportion of Pasifika children starting school who have participated in a Bilingual setting will increase to 98 percent in 2017.
3. 85 percent of year 1-10
Pasifika learners will meet literacy and numeracy expectations, including achieving at or above in
National Standards across years
1-8, in 2017
Actions
1.Provide language and learning intervention to support a smooth transition to school for learners coming from Pasifika immersion early childhood centers, and particularly
Pasifika learners that have not participated in early childhood education.
2. Use engagement initiatives such as the Pasifika School
Community Liaison Project to engage with parents families, communities and schools.
3. Increase the Pasifika capability of school Boards of
Trustees utilizing new resources.

PARENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES
Goals Targets Actions
1. Pasifika parents, families and communities support and champion their children’s learning and achievements as well as better informed more knowledgeable and demanding consumers of education
1. Increase Pasifika participation on school Boards of Trustees to be proportionate to the number of Pasifika students at the school
1. Strengthen partnerships to ensure parents, families and communities are engaged in their children’s learning, such as Achieving Through
Pasifika Languages (ATPL) centre’s where learners are supported through the use of Pasifika languages as well as being hubs for providing education information strengthen partnerships to support
Pasifika identities, languages and services. cultures.
Bilingual Education is a method of teaching that aims to assist learners to become Bilingual and
Biliterate. It involves learning opportunities in two languages, usually through first language empowerment Bilingual must be the aim of any Bilingual Education programme and this can only be the outcome when teachers have high levels of pedagogical understanding of methodologies and fluency in both languages of instruction themselves.
Ako – Teaching and learning relationship, teacher is also learning from the student – reciprocal learning, also recognizes that the learner and Whānau can’t be separated AKO incorporates two aspects.

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By looking at our graph, we can see some differences between the childrens reading levels.
There are 61 students enrolled in the Bi-Lingual School:
In which – 19 are reading Above National Standard
– 29 working At National Standard
– 10 working Below National Standard
– 3 working Well Below National Standard
Our Focus for this year is to work with the Below and Well Below children to help achieve their level and hopefully reach their reading expectations
Reading National Standard Data November 2013
Above
At
Below
Well below
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

YEAR PLAN 2014
TERM 1
ASBEC - PLD work with the Samoan Bilingual Teachers Pre Ob - Observe and talk about the lesson and where to next
Plan for the next lessons etc.
Parents night – Set goals for the year
Below
&
Well Below
Tell us what they want to see improved
Parents voice
ABC Behaviour
2014 Overview
Sport ½ Day afternoon

YEAR PLAN 2014
Term 2
Samoan Language Week
Mon 26 th May – Friday 30 th May
“Hold fast to your treasures”
“Taofi au measina”
Food Stall

YEAR PLAN 2014
Term 3
Lauga (speeches)
Food stall
Week 3 – Parents Evening
Compare the Below &Well Below

YEAR PLAN 2014
Term 4
Festival
Samoan trip
* One day Event
Parents Evening
* Celebration Evening

FetuOso
Garelija Road
Henderson 0612
Waitakere City
Telephone: (09) 838 8766
Fax: (09) 837 4336
Website: www.hendersonsouth.school.nz