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Liz Farley

__ROUND ONE__ This week I worked alongside Liz Farley. Liz wanted to further develop her Maths programme and cater for individuals through targeted activities. She spent the week researching, visiting other teachers, making new resources and then trialling them in her class. She developed a new planning format and task board as well as getting group boxes up and running.

Liz also made changes to her Reading Task Board and the types of activities she offered during Literacy time. The children have responded really well to the new activities and challenges.

__ROUND TWO__ This round Liz really wanted the children to co-construct the success criteria for what is expected at each of the early written language stages. She wanted to use this directly when she conferenced each child and feed forward to help them set their next learning goal in writing. To make this conference time work more efficiently we decided to set up a writing rotation that the whole class would follow. This allowed more time for conversations between Liz and her children as well as opportunities for children to publish and share their work on a regular basis. I also took this opportunity to set up an interactive writing programme with one group of children. This was hugely successful and motivating (for the teachers as well as the children!) and is continuing to be an important part of the rotation for that group.

