We are all aware, I am sure, of the pressure of time in delivering the curriculum – there seems to be an overload of content (a percentage of which is irrelevant, inappropriate and unnecessary) and just not enough time to deliver it!
It came as quite a shock a few days ago when I was putting together some material for a live stream to ECTs.
The Carousel of activities….just what is it and how does it work?
The first point in introducing ANY new concepts or topics is to find out what the children already know.
Reading is an integral and vital part of the education of all children – without sufficient progress and proficiency a child’s ability to both access and function successfully within the curriculum will be severely diminished.
There is no hard and fast rule for this and to be honest it really depends on 2 things
So here we are at the start of the new academic year….but let’s not rush headlong into the melee. Instead let’s wind back a few steps and approach it from a short distance!
In answer to a few questions about timetabling I am going to give a few more details about how to approach it and how it is structured.
When you sit down to plan for a new term the page suddenly seems HUGE….and empty!
Yesterday I received my invitation to attend the school play at a local village school….