21/2: Positive Education Faculty Meeting

Positive Education Faculty Meeting

21st Febrauary 2018

1. New PosEd Course outline – MB/GM
   1. New structure this year where 1 teacher now teaches all 4 courses (Y9 - thinking, philosophy, round square, character & values)
   2. Now include assessment tasks? Students complete reflective task for assessment, year 9 & 10 courses now linked via 5 questions, could work on and could into eportfolio - teachers, mentors would be able to look
   3. Curriculum doc draft - ties pastoral to curriculum
2. Health Update - CM
   1. Importance of Who Am I - Chris wants to push to whole school
      1. Other subjects are doing similar things - repetition not bad & teachers wouldn’t
         1. Contact Steph re what they do around reproduction and drugs in science
   2. Hauora
3. RE Update – OA
   1. Y10 running smoothly but Y9 haven’t started yet - will come into 5 lessons for a term
   2. What is happening in these lessons?
4. Mindfulness update – GM
   1. Need to try and complete all 8 sessions before the end of the term
5. Yoga – GM
   1. Now funded for staff
   2. Looking to organise for students
6. SAP – GM
   1. Sam Roberton & Emelia Leggit trying to start up for the year - will be talking at assembly next week about student lead groups
      1. Student Council - top 6 & HoH e.g. maintenance around school
      2. SAP - big issues, connections to other areas of school, inclusive and listening to others
      3. Student Health Council
      4. Cultural & Sporting Councils
   2. Student voice not just tokenism - needs to be worked with and equitable
7. Ethics Seminar at King’s, 21st May - GM
   1. Have been given hand out
8. AOB

Action Points:

1. Pull up students when being inappropriate
2. See if Chris needs a hand with Health outline
3. Discuss with other faculties (e.g. Science) about what double ups are occuring
4. Continue to work on Mindfulness sessions!