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A successful afternoon in the admin hut discussing history around Montpelier. After our first meeting a few weeks ago we decided to do pupil interviews regarding their views of history throughout the school, we also looked at the history national curriculum alongside...

Inquiry focus: To review and evaluate the intent, implementation and impact of the PSHE curriculum. To look at ways to improve the implementation and impact of the PSHE curriculum. "PSHE education gives pupils the knowledge, skills, and attributes they need to keep...

Today, years 3 and 4 gathered to discuss the range of success criteria strategies that we have been using in the classroom. Year 3 has found that breaking the SC into smaller steps for focus 5 children has had a positive affect on the children’s outcomes as the SC is...

KS1 enquiry: Question: how does exploratory talk help EAL reason in maths?   During our time out we thought about our baseline assessment and how we should test out the different types of talk in the class. We have chosen to focus on EAL. To start this off we...

On the 17th of October myself and other NQTs attended a fantastic course about increasing the level of engagement in English for all pupils. We watched videos of exemplar lessons which allowed us to see effective strategies in place. The importance of discussion was...

We met today to continue to discuss our learning enquiry. First we watched an iris recording of a lesson in which Nicola broke down one success criteria, into three manageable steps. This was really beneficial as we got to see how Nicola's practise focused primarily...

What teaching strategies can improve children’s reasoning skills? Research Borthwick and Cross (2018) evaluated several definitions of reasoning and concluded: Reasoning is a subset of thinking… it is about finding reasons...

On 3rd October I attended a training course surrounding behavior for learning. When I went into this course I had the perception that it would be able strategies to curb unwanted behaviour, but it was more about how to prepare children to be the best learners they...

Last week, I attended a course regarding learning and progress for children with SEN/D. I found it highly beneficial as I gained lots of strategies for children with SEN/D and those without. This included strategies to engage children and make them feel more...

Behaviour for learning Last week I attended a training course in fielding primary school about behaviour for learning. I went in to the training with the mind set of being given clear strategies to manage disruptive children in my class. But my the misconception was...

We decided to move from SEN learners to EAL as we felt that we didn’t have enough expertise to teach our SEN learners to improve our non-verbal SEN children’s spoken language and that EAL learners need support to verbalise their thinking. We discussed different types...

Today, we gathered together to analyse the research that we had found around the importance of success criteria and how it can be purposefully implemented within a lesson. Three quotes that captured our attention were made by Shirley Clarke who stated: “Students will...

We have a high number of children on the SEND register with complex needs and have decided to focus on this group of children with the aim of enabling them to make accelerated progress. After discussion, we decided our area would be targets for English. We made this...

Enquiry question: How can success criteria be used to accelerate the progress of focus five pupils in writing? School IP focus: 85% of pupils in each year group will make a minimum of expected progress in writing. Actions: Year 3 to feedback on research from...

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