The first point in introducing ANY new concepts or topics is to find out what the children already know.
Introducing new Maths units in Primary Schools.
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Category Archives: Preparation, Planning and Assessment
Tracking and assessing reading progress in your class.
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.
Starting a new Academic year – Primary School
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!
Your Primary Timetable – how it’s done.
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.
Planning for a new term in your Primary school
When you sit down to plan for a new term the page suddenly seems HUGE….and empty!
What class records should you be passing on to the next teacher?
Class records – just what should we be sending up with our class at the end of the academic year and what should we be expecting to receive with the new class that arrives?
End of Unit tests – really useful or just extra workload?
I like doing end of unit tests – there, let me put my point of view out there right from the start!
Stop Marking – there’s too much to do!
Let me give this statement some context – I am referring particularly to the 2nd half of the summer term when the cumulative end of year testing and record keeping demands hit their highest level.
The NEW year and your NEW class – an initial assessment.
As we begin the 2nd half of the summer term we are confronted by 4 scenario’s…
Assessing the Foundation subjects – an ECT overview (2)
Lets just take a quick re-cap of where we finished the 1st article and then pick things up and move on from there.