LUCKY SCHOOL WINS A YEAR MEMBERSHIP

LUCKY SCHOOL WINS A YEAR MEMBERSHIP

Congratulations to Bucklands Beach Intermediate School for winning a year’s membership to Sound Beginnings.  Staff from the Auckland school attended the recent NZAIMS Conference held in Taupo, where they were in for a chance to win a whole school membership to...
‘Oral language – we think we teach it’

‘Oral language – we think we teach it’

This piece of paper was handed to the team at the completion of one of our ‘Keys to Language and Learning’ courses. We can’t really say it much better than this… This key sentence for us is… “We teach speak making but not speaking, it is the most undertaught area of...
Waihi teachers explore ‘Engaging Conversations’

Waihi teachers explore ‘Engaging Conversations’

Children learn language through social relationships: the way they listen to and speak with others while engaged in activities together. Bronwyn worked with a group of Waihi teachers exploring a developmental sequence that identifies the abstract language a child can...