Haylands

May 2008 - 2 staff INSET Days using CSP tools. Fabulous!

Monday 3rd March Working with Esther's and Jill's Yr 2s Designing a new building for the community and being superb quality audiences:

The sound of a Haylands quality audience: media type="file" key="Haylands QA (Gill).WMA"

Haylands values - developed by everyone in the school's community - an exemplar of a learning community in action:

Amanda and Steph have worked some magic in their creative curriculum. They've combined: National Curriculum; School-developed values; Key Skills and ECM in a simple, visual and effective curriculum map:

An example of Amanda's integrated topic planner:

March 6th Mike visit Both Y1 classes - The Blue Balloon - creative thinking. The children were able to pair-share really well. I asked them to share in threes. It didn't go too well. Took photo of one successfull three, showed other children. Five minutes later 90% were now sharing in threes. The first thing they realised was that sitting in a three is different to sitting in a pair. Taking turns was also harder - who of three goes first and which order do we talk in? Work in progress. Both classes are in very safe and effective professional hands.