What's my thinking now?

 After looking at the results of this, I feel that, I need to scan deeper into this issue.  

• My thinking is... what do staff think as a group and as individuals?   As a staff this week, we are going to complete self-review on wellbeing@school both as a group and individually.  
•  Also, I have questions, is this just a Yr 7 and 8 problem or does it go throughout the whole school.  So I have created a survey for Yr 5-6 to complete online.  

Results from Yr 7 and 8 Survey - This is what the data says.

Positives are that many Yr 7 and 8 learners believe:

• Teachers think they can all achieve
• The school teaches behaviours that are ok and not ok
• Whanau feel welcome at school, and teachers and parents respect each other.
• Violent behaviours don't happen very often at school.

The areas that the school needs to be concerned with are that some Yr 7 and 8 believe:

• They don't have a say in what happens at school
• They believe they don't belong at school
• That teachers treat them unfairly
• That learning isn't interesting for them
• They don't safe feel getting to and from school
• That students don't treat others or teachers with respect
• That students let others be hassled and they don't ask others (other students or adults) for help
• That students are bullied at our school

Next Steps

I think that children are focusing on reading as decoding. The mechanics of reading - learning to read rather than reading to learn.  This is the fundamental change that I believe happens in Year 3 or 4 depending on children's reading ability.  

Also, I'm interested in the emotional links to learning. I want to continue to scan further by Year 7 and 8 learners to complete a wellbeing@school survey.  To gain an insight to whether learners have a growth mindset.

Summary of Student Voice

From the surveys, here is what the children are saying.
I find  reading hard when there are:

• Trick words;
• Word I can't sound out;
• Noises or distractions;
• New words I don't know;
• Old books.

Also, when I need to:

• summarise stories;
• think about the picture;
• use a range of strategies.

I need to learn to:

• Know more words;
• Use different strategies to read words;
• Read hard words;
• Explain things in my own words;
• Focus on my work;
• Sound out;
• Read fluently;
• Point to the words;
• Answer hard questions .

To help me read I:

• Sound out or chunk words;
• reread, skip words and /or read on;
• Think what would make sense;
• Ask for help.