We went to a great session with several other central schools on teaching oral language and we also looked at our growing ESOL (English as a second language) community. Auckland especially has a huge percentage of bilingual speakers and we looked at how to nurture those children in our schooling system. It was run by Cornwall Park School and two of their teachers shared their practise. We also had Erin, (on the far right/photo below) from the Ministry of Education come and show us statistics and data about our schooling community.
