This week we held a Family Learning session for parents and carers. We focused on reading across the school. In the older class, parents were taken through a mini reading session. We condensed our 3 day reading rotation into a one hour lesson. Parents read with groups of children and then took part in discussion of the text linked to the children’s chosen comprehension strategy. The children explained the range of strategies we use and then the parents had to complete tasks from the pupil-made taskmaps.
Our visitors said that they enjoyed seeing the kinds of activities we do to help us understand what we read. We gave them leaflets about Reflective Reading and a comprehension compass to take home.
On Friday we enjoyed finding out about our personality types using My World of Work. We thought about our preferences in different scenarios and then generated our ‘Animal Me’ profile. We all agreed that most of the profiles were very accurate. Next time we will be finding out how our interests can relate to different jobs.
We also talked about the skills we are developing both in and out of school and how these are important both now and in the future. Our list of skills had lots which overlapped with the Meta Skills Framework. We are going to be doing lots more work on identifying and developing these skills this term and next.
