April 8, 2018
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06/04/18 Today the temperature in Orleans reached a high 22 degrees! A perfect day for a day of activities outside of school. The CM1’s from Laura’s class along with CM1/CM2 and CM2 classes all had a day of activities relating to health and well-being, which included nutrition, physical education and the body, CPR and how […]
April 8, 2018
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Comments Off on Friday 23/03/2018
I went into school on Friday in disbelief as I couldn’t believe that I had nearly been in France for two weeks. I was very happy to find out that my teacher Amélie had spoken to various teachers throughout the school about me going into their classrooms to teach English to different years. I had […]
April 8, 2018
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Comments Off on Frohe Ostern! – Week 4 Reflection in Stuttgart
Although I am on my easter break this week, I still feel that it is necessary to write another weekly reflection, because I am still gaining a lot of learning in culture and language with my host family. Furthermore, this time has allowed me to explore the town of Kirchheim unter Teck more. On the […]
April 7, 2018
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Comments Off on Week 4: Day 19
05/04/18 Today I went between Agnés Courgeon and Christine Aué’s classes (CM1/CM2 and CM2). In the morning I helped CM1/CM2 in an ICT lesson. They were trying up biographies of heros/important people from history. I helped the children set up their computers and format their word document. I also helped the children put the French […]
April 7, 2018
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Comments Off on Week 4: Day 18
04/04/18 It’s Wednesday so I am in the Nursery. Today I was going to teach each of the four classes a song to help them remember the colours in English. When I arrived I did some puzzles with my first class, I think this is a good activity for the children to do when they […]
April 4, 2018
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03/04/18 Today is my 20th birthday! I spent the Easter weekend in Paris with Beth, Briony and Lauren and we went to Disneyland and saw the main tourist attractions of Paris. But today I am back to school. This morning Sylvie Lambert taught her CE2s about French sentence structure. It was interesting to see how […]
April 4, 2018
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Comments Off on Emmanuel Macron’s Changes to Primary Education in France
CP, is the youngest class in the French primary school. Children in this year group are usually 6 or 7 and in my school, there is only one CP class. Something that I have recently noticed in my school is that some of the pupils from the CP class are in the CE2 class at […]
April 4, 2018
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Comments Off on Week 3: Day 15
30/03/18 This morning I was observing in Françoise Monclere class, CP. They started their day with a French lesson on the sounds that ‘y’ makes. In French ‘y’ is pronounced as “eegreck’ and the sounds it makes in a word are ‘i’ and ‘ill’. The children put their hands up and came up with words […]
April 4, 2018
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Comments Off on Week 3 of Placement – 26th – 30th of March
Monday 26th CE2 – I began by asking one of the pupils to write the date in English on the board. They usually know how to say the word properly but their spelling is often wrong so I have to help them with this using the French alphabet. I continued with the topic of feelings […]
April 1, 2018
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Comments Off on Taten sagen mehr als Worte – Week 3 in Stuttgart Reflection
Third week in and it is that time again to sit down and critically reflect on what has transpired this week. Already I am feeling really at home working at ISS. I started my work with the grade 1 classes on Monday (26th of March 2018), as I have already worked with the grade 4s, […]
March 31, 2018
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Comments Off on Egg-cited for Easter
As week 2 has drawn to a close, it is hard to believe that the Easter holidays are already upon us. The past two weeks have flown by but I am ready for a little break before facing the four week block. This past week has allowed me to experience teaching when there are various […]
March 29, 2018
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Comments Off on Week 3: Day 14
29/03/18 Today is Thursday but I was only in my school until 11:30am as Beth, Briony, Lauren and I had a meeting with our host, Nina, at 1:30pm. First thing today I was told I would teach three lessons in the morning. Firstly in Agnés Courgeon’s class with CM1/CM2, then in Christine Aué’s class with […]
March 29, 2018
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28/03/18 Today I was in the nursery for the morning. I stated in one classroom and I played with the puzzles with a group of children. One of the puzzles was a number puzzle. You had to fit 0-9 into their accompanying slot in the board. I played it with one of the boys and […]
March 28, 2018
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Comments Off on Picking Apart Inquiry-Based Learning
Prior to coming to ISS, I had only heard about the implementation of inquiry-based learning within the primary school classroom. Inquiry itself, to me, is to go forth into learning with an aim to prove something or to investigate a topic for yourself; it is a key method of study at university as independent adult […]
March 28, 2018
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27/03/18 Today was exciting as I got to go on a school trip to Paris. The trip was linked to their topic on kitchen objects and we went to a museum that displayed vintage and historical kitchen utensils. I went with Agnés Courgeon, Christine Aué and their classes CM1/CM2 and CM2. We left for Paris […]
March 26, 2018
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Comments Off on LfL – Section 2: Staff Training (Week 2)
This week (19/03/18 – 23/03/18) was designated to staff training and orientation. In doing this, the staff understand what is expected of them, and what the expectations of the Outdoor School are for the season ahead. We went over various behaviour management strategies and how to ensure we are safe when participating in outdoor lessons, […]
March 25, 2018
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Comments Off on Wednesday 21/03/2018
With Wednesday being a half day I was aware that I would not have much to do in the classroom. This was the first day of the week that I had been with the normal class teacher. I was glad to see her as there were a few issues that I needed to discuss regarding […]
March 25, 2018
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Comments Off on Tuesday 20/03/2018
On this day I spent the morning in a local middle school. This was very different from what I had been used to in the primary school. One of the English teachers in the school was going to be spending time in Dundee teaching and therefore, wanted students from Dundee to come into school and […]
March 25, 2018
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Comments Off on Monday 19/03/2018
I went into my second week of placement very enthusiastic and excited about the week ahead. Having already spent a week in a French school environment I was eager to get back into the school routine. This was my first Monday in ‘l’ecole Romain Rolland’ and I was interested to see if the Monday routine […]
March 25, 2018
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Comments Off on 2nd Week of Placement 19th – 23rd March 2018
Week 2 – 19th to 23rd of March My daily timetable: CP CE1 CE2 CM1 CM2 8:45-9:30 x 9:30-10:00 x BREAK 10:30-11:30 x LUNCH 13:30-14:45 X BREAK 15:00-15:30 x Monday […]
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