Room+9

Anna Ousey

__ROUND ONE__ This week I worked in Room 9 with Anna. Anna wanted to streamline her assessment practices in Literacy, trial a new way of recording anecdotal notes, complete a set of Learning Intentions for Writing and Reading, and improve her children's understanding of the Habits of Mind. It was a busy week and we achieved lots!

During the week I helped the children make Habits of Mind posters (to be displayed in the Room 9/10 cloakbay) for the remaining eight habits (that I had not covered in Room 10 the week before). The children now have a better understanding of the language and are hearing it as part of their daily learning (Well done, Mrs Ousey!).  __ROUND TWO__ This time around the focus has been on getting the children to better understand their Learning Intention for writing, their next steps and the level that they are currently working at. We looked closely at our class success criteria for writing and related this directly to the Written Language Exemplars. The children had to look for evidence in the exemplars to support what the success criteria said. They then had to look for evidence in their own writing and work out what level they are currently working in; Level 1i, Level 1ii or Level 1iii. They are very excited about their new display that shows their development in writing. Anna then added the 'life cycle of a butterfly' photos to help the children understand the journey they are on with their own writing development. 