Another term over and this marks one year of me as a full time teacher and one year through being a provisionally registered teacher. Time sure does fly when you’re super busy and having fun.  This term has been a very busy one, my students have now been at school for two terms and know… Continue reading TERM TWO REFLECTION

What a week! There has been laughs tears and good times. The end of another term and the end of my first year of teaching! Wow time flies when you are so busy. This week was a week of finishing off work, assessments and report interviews. I have been distracted with the interviews by our… Continue reading WEEK TEN TERM TWO REFLECTION: END OF TERM, THANK GOODNESS!

This week was another insane crazy one, my class was on Junior Assembly. This involved the class running the whole assembly. We shared our artwork, the students did a dance and they sang a song. The excitement of this went on for a couple of weeks and lots and lots of practice went on for… Continue reading WEEK NINE TERM TWO REFLECTION: ASSEMBLY

This week has been crazy busy, the last couple of weeks I have been getting all my assessment up to date and getting report comments underway. I was quite impressed with the assessment I did and the students who I knew, were below the standards, did not surprise me. The writing and reading National Standard… Continue reading WEEK EIGHT TERM TWO REFLECTION: TESTING

This week I was lucky enough to go on a bus trip with some colleagues to look at other schools and look at their collaborative practices. This was such a great opportunity as our school is looking for ideas for our rebuild. We went to three different schools and saw lots of different ideas and… Continue reading WEEK SEVEN TERM TWO REFLECTION: BUS TRIP

I do really enjoy teaching 5 year old’s and they bring a lot of laughter and fun as well as some moments where you want to go into the corner alone and rock! Things I have learnt since teaching 5 year olds: They will talk to you all at the same time. They would share… Continue reading WEEK SIX TERM TWO REFLECTION: LEARNING FROM 5 YEAR OLD’S

This week I was lucky enough to get out of the classroom again, go, and visit a teacher that used to teach at Cotswold and is known to many of the teachers here. I went to Templeton Primary school and in the space I saw a new entrants class. Everything on the walls such as… Continue reading WEEK FIVE TERM 2 REFLECTION: OUT AND ABOUT

This week I had an observation done on me by my tutor teacher. It went really well and I got some great feedback, as always you get so nervous when your getting observed and this was no different. You will find my observation details under reading observations on the tab. One thing that both my… Continue reading WEEK FOUR TERM 2 REFLECTION: EFFECTIVE QUESTIONING