TEACHER IN TRAINING

This lecture was all about how/when & why to use manipulatives in maths. The article by Laksi et al. (2015) was really interesting. I had...

Went back to school to observe a science lesson this afternoon. It was SO lovely to be back in the classroom! The children were gorgeous...

Today's session was about the 7 inter-related dimensions of music. Sounds complicated, but actually I felt quite a lot of it was common...

I was slightly apprehensive about our first art lecture. I have always thought as myself as being 'rubbish' at art. (cue - Dweck!)....

I have really enjoyed reading about teaching music. I would say that I am reasonable at music - I can read music, I can sing, play the...

We first looked at Judaism and thought about using artefacts within lessons. We started off by being 'biblical archeologists' with...

I enjoyed this lecture so much! Suzanne was so enthusiastic and made it feel so normal to be singing in front of people at 9am in the...

We came into the room and it was dimly lit, with incense burning and music on. How lovely!!! Cindy started off by asking me to tell the...

I so enjoy these RE lectures. I love exploring different faiths. Although I feel slightly pressured to get everything right as they...

Ok, so obviously this session was about sequencing, rather than sequins, but sequins are far more colourful! Because of the spiral...

Maths reasoning seems to be about being able to explain why. It's within the National Curriculum that children can 'reason...

A lot of maths seems to do with fluency. I think that's having those key facts which can just trip off the tip of your tongue when you...

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We started off this lecture finishing off about knowledge from last time. A few new words: Epistemology - the study of knowledge....

Today's lecture was mainly about sharing our drafts of our creed and learning journey. Coming back to our values. I find this values...

This was such a fab lecture! I really enjoyed it! Free Writing We started off thinking about free writing and were asked to try some free...

I really like the idea of a daily Maths Talk. It seems like a fab way to build in maths understand daily. At Orleans we had morning...

Video on Moodle Spelling We first looked at spelling techniques. There was a spelling test to do (8/10 - not bad). What was interesting...

Today was all about comprehension. We thought about what a child would need to know in order to make sense of the sentence 1 "A mouse...

Today's lecture was all about assessment, through the medium of electricity. We had a recap about scientific skills. I wasn't 100% sure...