Reflection blog: 23/05/2015

Reflection blog: 23/05/2015

Reading: This half term, I have introduced a new tracking grid to record children's progress against the new Primary curriculum objectives. This will hopefully help me to stay focused during guided groups as to what I am teaching children in reading. As the objectives from the curriculum are quite broad and wooly, it might be necessary to break these down further into more specific aims.

Children's reading comprehension activity has stayed relevant to the writing focus for the week. The guided reading activity conversely, has been based on children's topic work.

Writing: Mapping out the objectives and grammar aspects to be taught each week has worked well this half term. The big write has provided children with an opportunity to apply their grammar concepts into a longer piece of writing. The new assessment sheets have also been positive in providing children with a visual target sheet as well as providing the class teacher with an easy way to monitor progress.

Maths: With a smaller Maths group, it has been easy to continue with guided Maths sessions. This has certainly had a positive impact on children's learning in the class. I must now continue to look for ways of challenging children to move forward with their learning. Some pupils in the class seem to have already reached the end of year expectations.

Topic: During the last Geography topic, it has been useful to have a weekly sub focus. For example, as this unit of learning was based on Planet Earth, the first two weeks were based on volcanoes, follows by mountains, the water cycle and rivers. This has been useful as ICT, the big write and topic sessions link together based around the sub topic.