On 5th February 2019 Yvonne McBlain facilitated a fascinating collegiate discussion about enjoyment and choice across literacy and English with a small group of primary teachers and principal teachers. This post is designed to share key points from this discussion.
We began by looking at the relevant experiences and outcomes within listening and talking, reading and writing, then considered where and how these were developed within and across the 4 contexts of the curriculum pictured above. It occurred to us that there were opportunities for wider achievement which addressed these E & Os including: Young Writers (click here to find out more), and Mother Tongue/Other Tongue poetry competitions (click here), and the First Minister’s Reading Challenge (click here to view).
The tasks we identified from this part of the discussion as being useful were:
- Create holistic groups/bundles of literacy experiences and outcomes for these and other learning activities
- Define how these are currently done in our schools
- Consider what this learning looks like in each class/stage – how do we ensure progression in these E & Os?
The picture shows the diagram we used to capture our discussion – click on it to hear Yvonne’s audio tour.
