Student+Voice+Day+-+Reflection

__﻿﻿Donna Nee - Pomaria__
 * The learners from all schools interacted easily and positively - great to see
 * The day was very full on, summary question was omitted from the programme
 * Question if teachers were too involved in the discussions that took place amongst the learners and if this influenced some of the discussion (i.e learners contributing ideas based on what they thought the teacher wanted to hear - was great that Jonathan pulled them altogether and gave them a strategy to use to identify what it was they were really saying.
 * Opportunity for learners to report back to each other during the session??
 * Morning tea and Lunch - thank you this was lovely!

__Student Voice Forum -Titirangi __
 * Wonderful opportunity for children to work together - with children from other schools, friendships developing and comments from learners that this was one of the highlights of the day
 * Temptation to step in as teachers and guide but children in fact showed that they were very competent in running with this independently of us and so implications for the next session is that we need to stand back and let them lead
 * Powhiri was fantastic experience for all of us but highlighted an enormous gap in that we did not have a strong waiata (or any for the second one) ready to support our speakers. We have decided that we, as a staff need to be prepared for if any of us were in this situation and plan to take instruction from our Te Reo tutor at staff meeting so that we have at least two waiata that all can sing and pronounce correctly as a staff and then fold down to the children. One will be Utaina Ma, the other to be decided.
 * Thanks to Stella Maris and Papatoetoe South for the wonderful home baked morning tea and very efficiently organised lunches.
 * We are meeting with the group of children early next week to begin their school task in liaison with Pap South as our buddies.

__Student Comment - Titirangi__
 * When we were interacting with the other students we all felt the same.
 * Our ideas were similar, but we didn't come up with duplicate ideas which was good.
 * We felt like we had things in common and we could just be ourselves.
 * The introduction was a bit long.
 * In the forum we were all on task, there were no distractions.
 * For the future we really hope that when we talk, our ideas are heard by teachers in any school we are in.
 * I hope some of this stuff really happens otherwise there's no point getting back together.
 * We wonder if we will be in the same groups when we go back to Pomaria? It would be good to hear what other people think too.

__Michelle and Sue - Papatoetoe South__
 * Great feedback from the students - will attach some student voice before the reflection day on the 20th
 * Good to see the effective use of technology to group ideas - ably led by the students from Pomaria who shared their skills with others
 * Chn warmed to each other and the tasks as the day went on
 * Next time we need to consider the time management of the day, and the time to each part of the day
 * Felt there wasn't a balance between teacher guidance (which they needed in the earlier stages of the day) and learners voluntarily contributing their ideas. This would have been more easily achieved if the teachers were playing the role of recorders, facilitators and paraphrasers of the students ideas. Was there too much teacher talk
 * The day highlighted the point that we need to do a lot more scaffolding with our students, particularly around their ability to articulate their ideas clearly in a new context - they can do this ably in their own classroom, and the student voice day is an authentic context in which to further develop these skills
 * As a group of teachers it would be great to further develop common definitions and expectations around what student voice looks like and sounds like, and also a clear and shared understanding of the purpose of this project - it feels like there is a disconnection between the work we are doing with this group, and its impact on student voice within our school learning community
 * As part of the agenda for our meeting on the 20th it would be great if buddy schools could have a block of time with their buddy schools to clarify the student task, and discuss the process of achieving it

__Student Voice Participants -Papatoetoe South__

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 * Liked the cultural aspects of the day
 * All the other kids were really friendly and inclusive
 * The kids all let each other have a turn and weren't hard on you if you didn't agree
 * We didn't feel too rushed or pressured
 * Pomaria were really well organised, with the room set up
 * Everyone had a turn and we all worked together
 * Great team work
 * We could have learnt more things - we stayed on one question for too long
 * We weren't free to be able to say what we wanted, because of other kids wanting to be leaders - we had different experiences depending on the group we were in. Next time we could mix up the groups
 * The clipboard part (warm up) wasn't explained very well
 * Sometimes the teachers took over and didn't let you use your answers
 * We were a different colour from the other kids