Guest Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Thank you Steve for giving us the opportunity to share thoughts on creative planning and approaches to year 2! If anyone is already teaching year 2 in this way i would be really keen to share practise and planning, if you are like me and going to teach year 2 for the first time in september, perhaps we could get going on swapping of ideas etc. Kellsa
AnonyMouse_2732 Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Hi there, I've nothing to contribute, just wishing you all well in this new area! Sue
Guest Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 hey there! am stranded across school from september as i am the third teacher in reception and i dont have a class until the january intake. consequently, i will be teaching ict to year 1, dt to year three and four and music and art to year 5/6 hurrah! lol good luck with year 2 they are fun - had them last year,.....
AnonyMouse_79 Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Hi Sherranne and welcome. You're luckier than me then, I'm jobless until January when I can have another contract!!
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 (edited) Hi and welcome to the forum Sherranne I'm not sure if you are aware but there is a Creative Curriculum group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/creativecurr...design/messages you can join via http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thr...mp;threadPage=1 Edited July 23, 2007 by Marion
Guest Posted October 21, 2007 Posted October 21, 2007 help! I too have moved out of the Foudation Unit into a mixed year1/2 class. Have 'survived' my first half term but feeling a bit lost! Was full of good ideas about how to push the flexibilty and creativity of the foundation stage curriculum into KS1 but struggling with the reality of it. Any tips , ideas , advice , publications..... etc!!! would be appreciated!
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted October 21, 2007 Posted October 21, 2007 I've just ordered Ros Wilson's "The Creative Curriculum" http://www.andrelleducation.co.uk/shop/pro...5&n_start=1 and hope to persuade the head to let me go to the conference next year.
AnonyMouse_1208 Posted October 22, 2007 Posted October 22, 2007 I was discussing this with my Head last week. (I still teach FS) His wife teaches in another school in our LA, they have been persuing creativity for the past 3 years and often have a week where the timetable is suspended and they all do DT or Science etc. His concern was that their KS2 SAT results have declined considerably in this time 96% in 2005, 86% in 2006 and 76% in 2007! I think creativity is great as long as it is well planned and does not lead to the detriment of basic skills.
AnonyMouse_79 Posted October 22, 2007 Posted October 22, 2007 Oh dear, Magenta, thought the opposite effect was expected?
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted October 22, 2007 Posted October 22, 2007 We have seen the opposite effect our KS2 results have risen especially in writing.
AnonyMouse_1208 Posted October 23, 2007 Posted October 23, 2007 I would have thought that writing would improve too. I'll ask to look more closely at the way they are doing things.
AnonyMouse_4544 Posted November 5, 2007 Posted November 5, 2007 I've just posted the first few levels of Ros Wilson's Learning Skills (assessment?) in the resource bank. My head has booked me on the training course but it isn't until next year
Guest Posted June 9, 2010 Posted June 9, 2010 help! I too have moved out of the Foudation Unit into a mixed year1/2 class. Have 'survived' my first half term but feeling a bit lost! Was full of good ideas about how to push the flexibilty and creativity of the foundation stage curriculum into KS1 but struggling with the reality of it. Any tips , ideas , advice , publications..... etc!!! would be appreciated!
Guest Posted June 9, 2010 Posted June 9, 2010 Hi year 1/2 teacher- do you have and planning on non-fiction dinosaurs- have assessment in it and am stuck xx
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