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Speaker 1: Charter schools are coming day one year one of the

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Speaker 1: new proposal from Act, and our first charter schools say

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Speaker 1: they are being swamped with applications ahead of their opening.

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Speaker 1: Seven charter schools are scheduled to open their doors over

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks. So Mastery School is in christ Church.

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Speaker 1: It's one of them, and I have the principal with me.

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Speaker 1: That's Rose mcinanny and welcome to the program.

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Speaker 2: Rose, Sure, nice to be here.

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Speaker 1: How much interest have you had?

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Speaker 2: Oh, we've had a lot of interest. We have held

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Speaker 2: information nights before we were approved. I think we had

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Speaker 2: about three hundred and feefaro and educators come to that,

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Speaker 2: and then we've had lots of expressions of interest and

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Speaker 2: many of those have gone from expression of interest through

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Speaker 2: to enrollment. So it's quite a process.

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Speaker 1: Can you give me numbers? How many year rolls?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, sure, we've got sixty students enrolled for term

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Speaker 2: one and then we've got about thirty or forty through

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Speaker 2: to come to our school tours during term one with

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Speaker 2: the view of starting in term two or term three.

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Speaker 1: How do they not make the cut?

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not really about not making the cut, it's

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Speaker 2: just around the timeliness, So you know, we found out November,

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Speaker 2: so our enrollment process is quite lengthy because of the

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Speaker 2: children that we're serving. We're serving children who are behind

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Speaker 2: in their learning with the goal of getting them up

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Speaker 2: to speed and then transitioning them back into mainstream once

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Speaker 2: they've been with us for a period of time. And

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Speaker 2: so we only had eight weeks to interview and then

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Speaker 2: do all the testing of these children, so that takes

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Speaker 2: it's about two and a half hours per child. So

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Speaker 2: we're really and we've been really clear with all the

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Speaker 2: parents who so far when we've cut it off at

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Speaker 2: sixty that we're so keen to have them come through

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Speaker 2: in turn one, and everyone's really happy with that.

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Speaker 1: So what will happen to those weitlisted kids? Can you

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Speaker 1: expand the capacity?

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Speaker 2: It's not about the building capacity, it's about what we've

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Speaker 2: been able to do as a team within sort of

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Speaker 2: six to eight weeks since we were notified we were approved.

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Speaker 2: So actually everyone's super happy with it all at their

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Speaker 2: schools and they'll continue at their school until they can

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Speaker 2: come through to us. They'll come to sessions with the

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Speaker 2: teachers in term one, they'll come to information nights and

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Speaker 2: learn more about the school. Yet we can only do

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Speaker 2: what we can do with humans within that time. So

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Speaker 2: everyone's pretty happy with what with where we're at.

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Speaker 1: What's different about your school? What is the difference between

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Speaker 1: a mainstream school and mastery school?

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Speaker 2: So mastery school is the children that are behind in

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Speaker 2: their learning and what we do with those children as

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Speaker 2: we have a longer school day as a starting point,

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Speaker 2: we have two hours of maths and two hours of literacy.

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Speaker 2: We are teaching with direct and explicit instruction, and it's

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Speaker 2: quite a lot to go into, but to talk a

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Speaker 2: wee bit about it, it is eighty five percent of

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Speaker 2: repeated content and fifteen percent new content introduced each day.

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Speaker 2: So the lessons are very predictable and safe for the children.

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Speaker 2: These children that are a little bit behind in their learning,

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Speaker 2: it might be because they have a diagnosis of dyslexia

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Speaker 2: or a dyscalculator and some other learning needs where they

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Speaker 2: actually need a lot more repetition and predictability, and we

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Speaker 2: grow that content knowledge with them over time. It's based

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Speaker 2: on the premise of attentional control, so they're doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of responding to the teacher during the lesson. There's

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Speaker 2: never a time for them to disengage, so you know

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Speaker 2: it's going to be hard work, but they're all really

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Speaker 2: aware of that. As for our enrollment process, it's really

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Speaker 2: exciting that they're going to feel success straight away because

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Speaker 2: we can teach them at their level. We've got teachers

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Speaker 2: and we've got assistant teachers ready to support so higher

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Speaker 2: levels of our staff to student ratios.

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Speaker 1: How many teachers are registered and how many aren't.

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Speaker 2: Oh, so all of our teachers are registered teachers absolutely.

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Speaker 2: So we've got four teachers to start with and those

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Speaker 2: the classes will grow up to twenty five with those

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Speaker 2: four teachers, and then we've got twelve assistant teachers. And

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Speaker 2: the beauty of that is all of our assistant teachers

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Speaker 2: are second, third or fourth year undergraduates training to be teachers.

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Speaker 2: It's just magic.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's your opening day?

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Speaker 2: Opening day is the third feb So we've got one week.

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Speaker 2: We're all at it. We've all been at it since

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Speaker 2: December doing our We're training the staff and especially in

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Speaker 2: the delivery of out so they're all trained teachers, but

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Speaker 2: especially training them and the assistant teachers and the delivery

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Speaker 2: of direct instruction. So very amazing.

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Speaker 1: That's great, and I hope you have a great day,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure it'll be a celebration that will be

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Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. But just a little personal bug beer about

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Speaker 1: all of this. As I was driving through the Whitecaddow

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Speaker 1: today on my way here after being being out of

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Speaker 1: town for a bit, I noticed all the different starting

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Speaker 1: dates of all the different schools, and some schools White

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Speaker 1: TAKERU says opening day as January the thirtieth. I went Yahoo,

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Speaker 1: and then down the road a little bit further a

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Speaker 1: Marra Maurua that said opening day is February the third.

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Speaker 1: I mean, surely, let's get them in and let's get

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Speaker 1: them learning. Let's open today, I hear you.

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Speaker 2: I think self governing boards, that's what they can do.

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Speaker 2: I'm a parent of three sons at three different schools,

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Speaker 2: so I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah, but no,

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Speaker 2: we're at thirty fib It seems to be a fairly

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Speaker 2: common date. And yeah, we've done pretty amazing to get

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Speaker 2: a school up and running in eight weeks and we

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Speaker 2: are super excited. So we're thrilled to meet all our

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Speaker 2: families and our and help our kids.

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Speaker 1: Well, good luck to you, and I wish you were

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Speaker 1: only the bes as Rose McK andenne, who is the

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Speaker 1: principal of Mastery School and that's in christ.

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