School Curriculum and General issues
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Hi everyone Have had a day closure today and our school invited several local schools to attend a day's course which involved an Introduction to Synthetic Phonics with Debbie Hepplewhite. Basically she is advocating that we stop teaching phonics according to the National Literacy scheme (PIPS) and teach the children to read purely using synthetic phonics. This involves teaching the children to decode text using their sound,segmenting and blending knowledge alone. She is saying that at present we are largely teaching children to read by guessing the word. We are not actually teaching them to read the word because we are not teaching them the all letter sounds and how t…
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just planning for our out and about topic for after easter, lots of great ideas about local area, bear hunt, local park, also mini farm topic based around our outing... has anyone got any inspirations for role play area that would fit in with this topic, so far this year we have had post office, garden centre, dark area, any good ideas....? cheers bb
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Book On Spring
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Hi Does anyone know of any good storybook or even quite a factual book about Spring. I want something which describes what happens in Springtime, such as daffodils coming up, lambs, rainbows, butterflies etc. Im sure there are loads, but I've been looking on Amazon and am not really sure what to get. G.
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Blaming Children
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Help, any ideas appreciated Its a bit complicated. We are only a small unit but still have several children with issues Child A-came in anxious,clingy ,poor speech Child B =poor spatial awareness and poor social understanding Child C- parents gone through messy divorce and mum gone back to education Child D -Challenged boundaries when came in but very settled now. He has a younger sibling who is challenging mum now, Child A for a good year has really improved but is having real problems with anxiety at specific times at school. He tried to bite his mum last week, WE suspect problems with father because the parents argued over the top of child A's head at the nativ…
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Anybody know any easter songs I could sing with 3 and 4 year olds, I used to know one about a bunny going round with a baskets of eggs and dropping one but can't remember it. Would be grateful for any songs or circle games that you know about easter. Thanks
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Interactive White Board
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Just got mine from Promethean (may have spelt that wrong) today. Will start off by using Active Primary but is there anything anyone uses that you would really recommend and that you now feel you can`t live without?
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Thanks
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I've now given my resignation it at school and just wanted to say thanks to everyone on the site. Those who helped me with problems and those that i've used their posts for resources/advice. Going to have a break from teaching and then maybe i'll come back...but need rest from stress and tension. Thanks again
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Ibp Proforma
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Hiya, As SENCO am currently redesigning our IEP/IBP pro-formas. I managed to devise a great new IEP after putting together various examples from places inclusing the forum. Just wondered if anyone could share IBP pro-formas as ours aren't ideal. Thanks x
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Lower Or Upper Case Letters
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can someone please confirm to me that if we are teaching letter recognition to 3-5 yr olds. should we be only using lower case letters?? its just that any resource website that i find has alphabet cards etc in capital letters which i think confuses the child surely we are trying to link the letters to eventually writing??
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Hi Everyone, I have a job interview on Wednesday! Only found out today! I have got to teach a mixed ability group of 12 children from R and Y1 a maths activity of my choice. Need advice as to what to do as my head is now spinning and I don't know where to start. My first thoughts are to do maths from a story and try and link to VAK then make sure I match to SStones, ELG's and key objectives for R and Y1 from NNS. Initial possible stories thought of: 1. Goldilocks (maybe obvious) and do measurement 2. Mr Gumpy's Outing and link to partitioning: 6 animals, how many in the water, how many in the boat: what's the number story? Also think I should put points for develop…
