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 * Welcome to Room 2 **Emma Sim - Lead Teacher

Have used photo story with children on a Fire truck that came to school as part of Fire Wise. Children and I came up with sentences to use then we added pictures, music and used their own voices as an igniter for writing a recount. I showed them one on my trip briefly so they knew what photo story was and how we could use it. [|**fire hydrant.lnk**]

Coaching model. I have used this tool to help encourage computer skills. We are slowly working through some skills that children need to know like capital letters, full stops, delete etc. Majority of children are keen and listen. I found only 2-3 children struggled with using the mouse and making a capital letter.

On the 20th April i attended a Kath Murdock workshop heldin Gore at the Croydon Lodge. It was focussed on Inquiry Learning Assessment. I found that this was quite a beneficial course with lots of hands on practises that you can add to you class I took away form it the fish bone and how you have at the top end of the fish goal, at the end you would write the actions and on the top side of the fish you would write all the things you would do for your goal to overcome the hurdles and at the bottom you would add the possible hurdles that you might encounter on the way.

When asking a question i learnt that you phrase it. Waht are you thinking? instead of saying what do you know as this puts pressure on children and limits children to speaking/writing down as they are unsure if it is true/correct. We also looked at our concetual understanding of inquiry - you chose a colour symbol and image and then at the end asses it again and see if it changes. You could use this in a topic situation and get childrens point of view and then see if it has changed at the end.

Since the workshop with Jill when she introduced tools to look at using in the classroom i have tried the alphabet powerpoint with the incorporation of using paint to draw a picture. The children and I have learnt alongside each other doing this. I have found the paint tool rather hard to use as my paint has be in a secure file and until recently until we got a technician in to find and fix the problem it has limited it's success in the class .

I have recently also tried in my own time using comic life and becoming confident with it. I then took it to staff meeting and showed the rest of the staff how great it is. The staff were really receptive with it. Room 2 and three have started using it with our classes. An after school session was also held on how to load it onto our laptops and how easy it is to use.

With having new active boards in the school and teachers that haven't used them all to much i have started activboard trainings on a Thursday after school. this enables sftaff to come along and be taught new skills and to ask questions. last term we only managed 1 as we had other work issues and then we started up again this term. We endevour to have them again for 6 weeks but also through this we will relook at photo story and other programmes that the staff want help with.

Her is some photos of our coaching book that we use in Room 2



__Week 2 Term 2__ To date i have only held one whole staff meeting and in that meeting we looked at what our focus is for the year, how we are going to achieve and go about it. I had made clear files up for each staff member and i talked through it. In it i had provided staff with evidence sheets to write info in. I also provided information on how to use the coaching model, provided them with to staff members that are currently using thme in the class and how thy could use them. Also included in the folder was typing hands and the colour keys associatewd with fingers, how to use picture trail, a powerpoint reading, an example of using piant and powerpoint together to make alphabet slides and last but not least for the senior school i touched on pick a path stories. To extend staff on how to use programmes i have been released for two days to colllate data for the wiki and paste info onto it, i have gone round taking lessons on how to work programmes and demonstrate with children how easy freindly they are. I have also gone round taking photos showing what we have in our school.
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