How PEF and School
Improvement has made a
difference in our class
In P1W we have enjoyed reading lots of the picture books that the school bought as part of the Reading Project. We have used these stories to develop our listening and talking skills, increase our vocabulary and support our storytelling skills. Having listened to so many stories we are now all very confident when it comes to describing what we like or do not like about certain books and we have identified a few favourite authors as a class.
The additional Read Write Inc resources that the school bought have meant that Mrs Smith, our full time Support for Learning Assistant, can work with us in smaller groups to help us further practise our sounds and reading. “Sometimes it is easier to remember sounds when we learn them not in the class.”
In numeracy we make regular use of the materials purchased to enhance our understanding of numerals and quantity.
Our number sense is continually improving and Miss Wyman has shown us lots of new activities and games that we can play to help with this that she learned about when she went to the training for teachers. Mrs Smith also helps us to work in smaller groups during our numeracy lessons which we like because “if something is tricky there is a grown up who can help us work out what to do or to help us write our numbers.”
We regularly take our learning outdoors and most of us are happy to go outside no matter what the weather is like. We use the playground, the field and the Dam to support our learning. “Learning outside is better because sometimes it doesn’t even feel like learning and it is fun to be able to run if we want to.”
Using “remember to’s” in literacy and numeracy have helped us to make sure that we know all of the steps we need to take to be successful. We use traffic lights and our thumbs to show Miss Wyman how we feel about our learning at the start and end of each lesson, “green traffic lights mean we are happy with our work, orange means it was a bit tricky but ok and red means that we found it hard and need Miss Wyman or Mrs Smith to work with us next time.” We have been working on self and peer assessing our work against our “remember to’s” which helps us to see what we need to do next time.
