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Wellington High School seeks to personalise student learning using the new curriculum to actively involve students in what they learn, how it is taught, and how it is assessed. The senior school offers a range of courses to students that recognises the diverse student population and attempts to meet their skills, abilities and interests. The junior school is currently involved in an exciting new project, which will hopefully grow and involve more staff and students.

The work of Jane Gilbert and Guy Claxton has helped inform many of the changes we are making, in particular our Year 9 integrated curriculum project, Tukutahi. Jane Gilbert refers to knowledge as information we gather and use to construct our own knowledge, by being actively involved in a life long action learning process. Guy Claxton’s work on building learning capacity and dispositions to learn has helped us decide that if learning is going to be truly meaningful we need to be able to change our teaching and learning programmes and construct programmes that recognise connections between curriculum areas. Planning needs to cross the disciplines so that we build and challenge students to think, not only as a scientist or a mathematician, but to make connections across the various disciplines.

The Tukutahi project at Wellington High School has developed from a desire to provide a programme that makes these connections, and involves the students directly in making decisions about their own learning, while also recognising the importance of building classroom relationships. In its initial phase, Tukutahi involves four teachers from four different curriculum areas (Social Sciences, English, Mathematics and Science), using one dividable open space. The curriculum is integrated across the four subject areas and students and teachers collaborate to share ideas and interests and plan a programme that is relevant and meaningful, and where everyone involved in the teaching and learning process is actively engaged.

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