March 28, 2017
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This blog isn’t an educational blog post, but it’s more of just my life, and how I have found first year and what will be happening for me over summer. I currently live in Dundee (which I feel has been a waste of money, as I work at home), but after first year I will be getting …
March 27, 2017
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This weekend I went down to Austin, TX with my Uncle Hugh and Auntie Mary to celebrate their friends’ son’s first birthday. Austin is 217 miles away and it took us 3 and a half hours to get there and a little longer to get back. I’d heard the saying “100 years is not long […] Continue reading
March 23, 2017
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Comments Off on Learning for Support and Support for Learning
I want to learn about schools from all aspects from the kitchen to the classroom If you are keeping up to date with my blog and reading it daily, you will be familiar with my third goal for this placement quoted above. Today’s main learning focus for myself was Learning Support in my fantastic placement […] Continue reading
March 21, 2017
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Comments Off on How is Advertising Affecting Our Children?
One of my main aims from this placement was to see how advertising affects us in our everyday lives and, more importantly, how this advertising affects school pupils. Since starting on the Pizza Hut team over a week ago I’ve been been shown a variety of ways many companies choose to advertise their goods and […] Continue reading
March 21, 2017
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Comments Off on First Time at Phonics
Phonics at Moulsford has become part of the curriculum from pre-prep up to Year 5 over the past couple of years. For those of you reading this who are unsure of what phonics are, they are the first strategy that children should be taught to help them learn to read by using words that are […] Continue reading
March 20, 2017
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Comments Off on Musical Madness at Moulsford
With over 75% of boys at Moulsford learning at least one musical instrument, 2 choirs (involving over 120 boys) and an orchestra it is needless to say that Moulsford Preparatory School is a fantastic place to go if you’re interested in music! Today was a fantastic (although slightly mad) day at the school as it […] Continue reading
March 19, 2017
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Comments Off on Failing our children?
I am perplexed. Perhaps slightly naïve/idealistic in my thinking but I believe the solutions to many “issues” in education can be solved quite simply. As a mother of two children, with varying degrees of ASN and also as an educator, the issues … Continue reading → Continue reading
March 18, 2017
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Comments Off on What a Week!
I can’t believe that’s my first week of placement over already! What a brilliant week it has been! Here are some of the experiences that I have been involved in: Kodaly During the Kodaly sessions, I saw p1 children learning about the foundation elements of music, including rhythm, pitch, and tempo. This learning happens in … Continue reading What a Week! → Continue reading
March 17, 2017
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Comments Off on Reflecting on my first week…
My first week at Tracy Locke has been an absolute whirlwind of new knowledge and meeting so many new people who have made me feel extremely welcome. This has made working in an unfamiliar setting a lot easier. I have taken part in so many things that have been extremely beneficial in contributing to my […] Continue reading
March 15, 2017
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Comments Off on Day Two: 28 Floors Up
This morning I sat in on a a phone conference with members of the Franchisor/Equity team: Michael (account director), Pam (account supervisor) and Kim (account coordinator). The conference was with Cleveland Menus who print Pizza Hut’s counter menus and handheld menus. All staff members maintained a professional manner during the phone call. Afterwards, it was […] Continue reading
March 14, 2017
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Comments Off on The Moulsford Forest School Experience
I am so lucky to have today visited a forest school with the pre-prep year groups from Moulsford. It was a new experience entirely for me and having bought wellies in preparation, everyone knew how excited I was to be given this opportunity. Outdoor education is something I tend to miss out of teaching because […] Continue reading
March 14, 2017
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Comments Off on So Much Jargon!
(Written on 13/3/17) Placement officially started today, but because I arrived in Texas on Wednesday I was able to have a soft start kind of day on Friday. (Thursday was a recovery day but I still don’t think I’m over the jet lag yet!) On Friday I got to meet everyone on the team I […] Continue reading
March 14, 2017
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Comments Off on Going down under!
For the past few years, the idea of going off to Australia has been one which seemed highly desirable, yet extremely unlikely. It was only when given the opportunity of choosing the International Baccalaureate module at University that it appeared this could my opportunity – study abroad, gain experience in an international school and receive an insight […] Continue reading
March 12, 2017
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Comments Off on Placement Jitters
Current mode: panic! No, not really. However, I am feeling very nervous about placement which begins TOMORROW. I say placement but is, in fact, a “prac”. I arrived in Australia Friday just passed and about to undertake a placement in Somerset College, an International Baccalaureate world school in Queensland! As well as all of the […] Continue reading
March 8, 2017
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Comments Off on The Beginning of Learning from Life
As I write this post I am currently sitting in Edinburgh airport waiting for my first flight to Heathrow before connecting onto a flight to Dallas, Texas to undertake my Learning from Life Placement. I have chosen to work with Tracy Locke. They’re a marketing and advertising company whose head offices are located in Dallas. […] Continue reading
March 7, 2017
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Comments Off on Pedagoo Perth
My aim throughout my time as a student is to continue developing my professional practice so that when I graduate then I will already be in the habit. From day one, the University of Dundee have encouraged our use of twitter, twitter chats and blogs to effectively share our experience with others. I can safely […] Continue reading
February 24, 2017
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Comments Off on Finding the motivation to write this was tough…
Today, I had a lecture on Motivation in the Primary Classroom. We were given the question….How do we motivate learners? Identify and discuss the key features of motivation and strategies to develop motivated children. There are two types of motivation: Intrinsic motivation comes from inside yourself while on the other hand, extrinsic motivation comes from external […] Continue reading
February 20, 2017
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Comments Off on School Uniforms: is it that bad to wear a skirt?
Whilst looking through some news arcitles this week, one stuck out in my mind. The Telegraph (2017) posted an arcitle online titled ‘Head teacher in sexism row over plan to force girls to wear skirts as trousers are ‘too tight”. This then got me thinking about school uniforms and what children think of them. Through […] Continue reading
February 14, 2017
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Comments Off on Scientific Literacy
Scientific literacy and fair testing – Áine O’Neill, Gillian Daly, Iain Thomson “Scientific literacy is the capacity to use scientific knowledge, to identify questions and to draw evidence based-conclusions.” (OECD, 2003) It allows us to expand our knowledge on science and allows us to learn about new things. It is very important to teach children […] Continue reading
February 13, 2017
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Comments Off on My first day as Miss Fullerton
When I first walked into the school on my first day I was quickly introduced to the teacher that would be my mentor for the next six weeks of my placement and taken into the classroom. The teacher then explained what lessons she had planned for the day. From inside the class I could see […] Continue reading
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