2015+Term+3+Minutes


 * Meeting details ||
 * **// Purpose //** ||  ||
 * **// Date / Time //** || 1.30pm 19th August 2015 ||
 * **// Location //** || MPS Library ||
 * **// Attendees //** || John, Jane, Bee, Michelle, Gaye, Karen, Vanessa ||
 * **// Apologies //** || Meryl Whitby ||


 * MEETING MINUTES ||
 * Agenda Item || ** Follow-Up / To Do ** ||
 * # Vanessa would like to share a Powerpoint from Broulee Digital conference || Didn’t get to this. ||
 * # Book Fairs - Lumen: Gaye wrote a play that the staff performed. Had a book swap instead of a Book Fair. Riddles in the morning to find a Willy Wonka type golden ticket. Pambula – Book Fair through Merimbula Newsagency. Put a clue on school Facebook page every morning to guess what character Mrs Tarpey was coming as. Each child only received 1 guess. $6300 worth of books sold. Bega Valley – book parade, buddy reading. Merimbula – Book parade and Book Fair through Booktique. ||  ||
 * # Admin time - 45 minutes per day admin time. Twenty percent of time is the recommended guideline for schools. ||  ||
 * # Other Business:
 * Old Books – where can we send these? Contact Ross Cooper, Peter Claxton, Mike Brosnon, John Liston.
 * School libraries – Karen to forward an article on disappearing school libraries and the negative effect on literacy across the school.
 * Bruce Pascoe – local indigenous author – book launch last week, primary fiction “Fox a Dog”, “Sea Horse”. About every day, contemporary Indigenous families. “Black Horse” coming soon. Coming to Pambula to talk about his books. Would like to visit other schools as well.
 * Debbie Wray (Aboriginal Education & Learning Officer) liaised with Pambula about indigenous resources for history curriculum. She went through Aboriginal resources in the library to see what was relevant and what needed to be thrown out. She can give you a list of resources that are accurate and should be in the TR section of the library.
 * Banks PS – lighthouse school for Oliver – video
 * Karen discussed peers and technology for teacher appraisement.
 * Discussion on “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee.
 * Discussion about Literacy and Numeracy standards falling – some children don’t want to read anything. Time in the classroom to read.


 * 1) Next Meeting – Karen will host at Pambula PS

Meeting closed at 3:05pm ||  ||