The two areas our staff are focusing on this year are Maths and Literacy (more specifically - Writing) and this week we had a week of PLD with wonderful consultants Kate Birch (Literacy) and Lucie Cheeseman (Maths) from Cognition.
Teachers spent a day with Kate beginning with goal setting and collaboratively creating a success criteria to go with our goals. Through discussion teachers developed ideas on where we are at in our teaching of writing, where we want to go with it and how we are going to get there. This was most informative and gave us direction as a team of what and how we want to achieve our goals.
Following goal setting, we spent time reflecting on the curriculum "the road" (with the focus on writing), tying this to the literacy progressions "the sign posts". This reflection/discussion time was beneficial for the understanding of the link between the two documents, particularly for our beginning teachers
The day continued with the moderation of writing samples from our most recent assessment. This was great opportunity for us to discuss the writing rubric and to extend teachers knowledge and understanding of how it works. Through this moderation session we gained an indication of how accurate we were in our judgements using the rubric and were pleased with the overall outcomes of the session.
To end the day, the team looked into the planning and structure of our writing lessons. Some of the staff were fortunate to have attended sessions last year with Murray Gadd and the aim is that we will be running a fluid group writing programme where children's individual learning needs are identified and met through analysis of data, conferencing and in class writing clinics.
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