Narrative Assessment - STEAM

Narrative Assessment - Literature Circle

Collaborative Games iExperience Narrative

Learner: Vrishti                                                            Date: August 2015

Learning Area: Collaborative Games                             Learning Coach: John Dyer

Learning Observed

At the start of Term 3, we embarked on a journey of collaboration. All the learners were put into groups that were mixed age, ability and gender. It was a time for learners to get to know each other and develop their ability to collaborate with each other outside of the habitat in a variety of games and activities. Vrishti participated effectively in the activities, demonstrated persistence and was a good team player. One of the challenges involved guiding a blindfolded team-mate over, under, around and through a course. This required a high level of patience and strategy. Vrishti and her group experienced difficulties but worked together as a team to overcome them and were ultimately successful in the task. They learned about the importance of sticking together in order to reach your goals.

Evidence of learning Here are the successful warriors working hard and playing hard. They were rewarded for their efforts and learned about themselves and about ‘Collaboration’ Here is Vrishti presenting her learning with her group.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable

Next Learning Steps

The challenges that Vrishti faced provided opportunity to practice existing skills and learn new ones. A worthwhile challenge would be for Vrishti to apply her collaborative learning to other areas of the curriculum when she will continue to work with a wide variety of other learners.

LH1 Pet iExplore - Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Jahnavi & Vrishti                                                     Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: iExplore, Social Science & Science                                 Date:  Term 3

Learning Observed

Vrishti has been diligently completing her iExplore on identifying the most suitable habitat pet.  She has been researching, refining her ideas and recording her learning for others to use to learn.  She has used this as an opportunity to complete a statistical investigation in order to determine which animal our LH1 learners think would make a good pet.  When Jahnavi joined our habitat the two learners decided to collaborate on the project together.  The iExplore learning adventure stemmed from their curiosity around which animals schools are allowed to have as pets. The girls have responded to feedback from Learning Coach and learners in our conferencing sessions and are open to ideas.

Evidence of learning

iExplore Conference Doc (Slide 7) iExplore Plan

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Vrishti and jahnavi have shown they can be collaborative when sharing their research and receiving feedback.  They have demonstrated capability at researching to answer specific questions- skimming and scanning and pulling our key ideas when summarising texts. They are making connections to prior knowledge and experiences.  It will be exciting if we get a pet after all this work!

Next Learning Steps

populate the plan with all details and links required (fact files, KWL chart, statistical investigation) write a blog post about your experiences create a quiz using kahoot to check for learning from the focus group put the plan into your Learning Pathway as a learning artefact and share it with your family

Leadership Experience Fun Masters - Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Joshua & Vrishti                                                        Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

It was impressive to watch these two learners collaborate togetherto provide the fun part of the ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that all the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  Vrishti and Joshua co-constructed their activities (which can be found in the presentation that housed all of the other learner’s presentations) and they MCed the games like true professionals.  When the order of appearance changed multiple times they just rolled with it demonstrating confidence and resilience.  They selected some fun games that they participated in at NYLD to recreate at our event and kept the energy levels high for the entire afternoon.  The learners loved doing the Mexican Wave and especially the egg challenge!  Practicing their public speaking, writing and leadership was what they did while the rest of us enjoyed a fantastic afternoon of entertainment and fun!

Evidence of learning

Vrishti & Joshua amp up the crowd with fun & games!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

While Joshua and Vrishti collaborated they made direct and indirect connections to their experience at NYLD.  The related to others, managed themselves responsibly and participated enthusiastically on the day.  They were enthusiastic and responded to changes with resilience.  The preparation for the egg challenge was great and the modification to the games for a smaller crowd was thoughtful.  They made us curious and they made us laugh!

Next Learning Steps

practice the games write a blog post about the afternoon including their reflections share their learning with family at home

Vrishti's Mathematics Narrative Assessment

Learner:   Vrishti (M)                                                 Date: June 2015

Learning Area: Maths - Knowledge                                   Learning Coach: John Dyer

Learning Observed

Vrishti has been working on upskilling herself in mathematical knowledge. This has involved playing a range of games with others in her maths group. In this photo, Vrishti is using a range of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division strategies to reach a range of target numbers. She enjoys playing against her friends and enjoys it even more when she beats them! Vrishti has a good grasp of doubling and halving which she used to good effect in this game. She is more confident adding numbers together and is growing in confidence when using a variety of the other three operations.

Evidence of learning

Vrishti and Yuvika battle it out to see who is the 4 x Tables grand champion!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable

Next Learning Steps

Continue to develop basic facts knowledge. This will include instant recall of addition and subtraction facts to 20 and instant recall of multiplication facts for the 2, 5, 10 x tables. This will progress to the 3, 6, 9 x tables, the 4 and 8 x and finally 7 x tables.