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Tauranga Moana Reading Association

 

President and Delegate

 

 

 

 

 

Jo Hickman

104 Wainui South Rd

 

 

 

 

RD 2 Katikati 3178

 

 

 

    Bay of Plenty      
    bill_jo_hickman@xtra.co.nz
      
Vice President  
     

Rachelle Hulbert

 

rachelleh@tauranga-int.school.nz

 

       

Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

Janet Ness

41 Wellesley Grove

 

 

  Gate Pa    
  Tauranga 3112    
 

J.Ness@beth.school.nz

    
Treasurer      
Carolyn Green carolyng@tepuna.school.nz    


Membership_subs_2011.doc

Strategic plan 2011


Event details and registration

Teacher aide workshop

Workshop evening

Calendar of events

Term One  
February 17 (Thurs) TMRC committee meeting: BRAVO 4.30 – 5.30 pm
March 24 (Thurs) AGM and Wine and Cheese (click link for details)

Venue : Books A Plenty
Topic: "What's Hot in New Book Releases for Kids"
Time: 5.30 – 6.30 

April 14 (Thurs) Teacher Aide Course  (click link for details)

Topic: "Supporting Reading in the Classroom"
Venue: Teacher Resource Centre – Durham St, Tauranga
Time: 9.00 – 12.00

Term Two  
May 5 TMRC committee meeting: BRAVO 4.30 – 5.30 pm
May WORKSHOP EVENING  
June 11-12 NZRA ANNUAL MEETING – Wellington 
June 16 (Thurs) TMRC committee meeting: BRAVO 4.30 – 5.30 pm 
July 17-20 NZRA CONFERENCE - ROTORUA 
Term Three  
Sept 8 (Thurs) MYSTERY BUS TOUR OF SCHOOLS - Celebrating International Literacy Day - Flyer to come
  STUDENT ACTIVITY FOR INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY – (Flyer to come)
Oct 6 (Thurs) TMRC committee meeting: BRAVO 4.30 – 5.30 pm 
Term Four  
Nov 3 (Thurs) TMRC committee meeting: BRAVO 4.30 – 5.30 pm  
Nov 16 (Thurs) PARENT and TEACHER ACTIVITY:

THEME: "Stopping the Summer Slide"
VENUE: Tauranga Library         TIME: 5.30 – 6.30pm (Flyer to come) 

Dec 1 TMRC Xmas Dinner  (Venue to be advised)


 

Tauranga Moana Reading Council
Workshop Evening
May 12th, 2011

On the 12th May Tauranga Moana Reading Council held its annual Workshop Evening at Maungatapu School - What an amazing night of literacy presentations!

Our evening began with refreshments, catch-ups and opportunities to browse through the wonderful resources of Scholastic books.

Brian Falkner, renowned children's writer from Auckland, kicked off the evening. His presentation brought tears of delight and laughter as he shared the importance of tapping into children's emotions if we wanted to foster a love of reading in them. It was both an entertaining and informative sharing which we all delighted in.

The evening followed with 9 workshops that teachers could opt into – all dealing with enhancing literacy in our classrooms. Our 9 presenters were comprised of classroom teachers, librarians, ICT experts, Reading Recovery tutors and principals. Topics covered Exploring online storytelling (Gail Cochrane); Sharing Picture Books with 5-13 year olds (Michelle Anderson); Discovery Time (Cindy Mawson and Cathy Hardacre); Making links between reading and writing explicit Vicki Knell); Running records – using the information to guide and inform teaching (Bernie Hiha and Joan Hobbs); Reciprocal Reading – teaching reading comprehension strategies (Tracey Kerr-Aim and Katie McKenzie); evidence based decision making in writing Suzanne Billington); blogging to motivate and promote literacy (Karen Mills); Integrating iCT with literacy (Sarah Taylor). The  positive feedback from those who attended the workshops reiterated how important and useful the sharing of knowledge is in developing our awareness and implementation of different teaching strategies to benefit our students.

Tauranga Moana Reading Council is most grateful to the presenters and to the sponsors who so kindly donated to the success of the evening in a tangible way.

If you would like to know more about Tauranga Moana Reading Council and the Literacy events we hold please visit the Tauranga Reading website (www.taurangareading.co.nz) or contact Jo Hickman (President: Tauranga Moana Reading Council – details on website).