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Hawkes Bay CATE Regional Report June 2007

Term 2 has been quiet for HBCATE.  All activity has been done through email and phone calls. Members appreciate the information from Exec and the local chair being sent out in small doses as and when they are sourced.

Members have been submitting fees for membership; we currently have more than 30 financial members.  It is particularly great to see more interest in HB members coming to conference.  This is partially due to the encouragement we are giving STAR co-ordinators to use their STAR funds (Professional Development) to attend where the school will not fund.

Currently the planning is almost complete for a large scale Hui on Wednesday 25 July.  This will be a full day event and combine a number of different groups.  The theme of the day is ‘Improving Maori Student Achievement’.  It will be held at Te Taiwhenua Trust.  The day starts with a CATE meeting and the opportunity to look around the Trust facilities.  Following this, all local STAR co-ordinators will join us for work around STAR and local school consortia activity. During lunch, schools will network around upgrading KAMAR to better provide for the Career needs of the schools. We have a symposium planned for the afternoon when the SCTs of local schools will join us. A range of workshops are organised focussed on assisting careers and transition staff to provide appropriate help for Maori students in order to improve achievement.  We have SSS Advisers presenting on models of ‘best practice’ in the classroom, YTS delivering on strategies they have found successful on ‘at risk’ students past school, Te Rehia Channing will run a question and answer session after a total immersion experience, the local Maori schools will workshop together on consortium possibilities with STAR and MPA moderation, and we are hoping to get the local Pou Whakataki to workshop on working with whanau and community. It is hoped that some of our Gisborne/Wairoa members will make the journey down for this day.