4MWT term one

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Today we went for a walk through in the junior school.
  • What’s happening and why?
    • lots of self-directed activities for literacy
    • small groups for teaching
    • busy and engaged learners
    • inquiry-based feel
    • creativity is valued and promoted
    • love of learning
  • What’s not happening and why?
    • handwriting/spelling focus? lots of word building activities. From a middle perspective children seem to be missing awareness of reversals - how do we balance focus on ideas over surface features. This may happen later in the term as we are only in day 4!!
  • What am I going to do to influence what is not happening and why?
    • creativity lacking in Middle - how can we promote this? I feel quite frustrated trying to meet both the desire to relax the timetable and go with the children's passions and making sure they are 'ready' for senior school and further learning.
    • How can we move this philosophy into the Middle school level? What kinds of activities can we offer? How do we track what children are doing? Noise?


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