1. Buckstone Primary School September 2014
Curriculum Evening
Buckstone Primary School
September 2014
Welcome
Personal Learning Plans
Literacy
Numeracy
Website
Outdoor Learning
Rights Respecting School

2. Lifelong Learner
Social Being
A sense of self worth

3. Buckstone Values

4. PLP Personal Learning Plan
A PLP is the process by which pupils, parents and teachers are involved in discussion about individual strengths, areas of development and targets for improvement.
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5. What are they? PLPs are the record we create of your child’s progress and achievements over the year. They are working documents which will build up over the year and which will contain group targets, personal targets and evidence collected to show progress. The PLPs replace the old fashioned annual report card and you will receive teachers’ comments termly for maths and literacy and annually on all other subjects. PLPs are sent home regularly but you can have your child’s PLP home at any me. Simply inform your child’s teacher in writing and return the PLP to school the following day.
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6. What will they look like
What will they look like? P1 – P5 -Targets and comment sheets will be stored in a small file. -Evidence will be stored in a zipped A3 wallet. -Each piece of evidence will be stickered so that you can tell which target is evidenced. P6 & P7 - same contents but filed in a red folder, all evidence and targets together.

8. Wider Achievement

9. Contents

12. Why Change? We have changed our PLPs to ensure they are truly a reflection of “personal” learning and to avoid them becoming generic. As with any new initiative we will no doubt experience some teething problems, but we do hope you will welcome this more individualized approach. The children are certainly pleased to behaving “learning chats”.
Reflect & represent the individual
Appearance – P6 & P7 different
Quality dialogue (Time to Talk)

13. Individual Pupil and Teacher - Learning Chats Teachers will allocate a time slot so that every pupil in their class has the opportunity for an individual chat to set a personal target in literacy and numeracy. PLPs will come home at differing times.

14. Literacy

15. Writing

16. Handwriting
Spelling
Writing

17. Handwriting
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18. Development Process
1.Readiness for handwriting; gross and fine motor skills leading to letter formation. 2. Beginning to join. 3. Securing the joins. 4. Practising speed and fluency. 5.Presentation skills.

19. Spelling

20. Vocabulary Connectives Openers Punctuation
Writing Skills
Vocabulary Connectives Openers Punctuation

21. Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

22. Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

23. Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

24. Vocabulary
Connectives
Openers
Punctuation

25. “Together the development of these skills empower children to unlock their potential as independent life-long learners.”

26. Reading

27. Reading at Buckstone Primary
Aim – to create readers who will actively engage with any text

28. Reading Skills Reading aloud Inferring Questioning the text
Building on existing knowledge
Predicting
Visualising
Summarising

29. Numeracy

30. Why Maths? Numeracy is a skill for life, learning and work
A numerate person can carry out number processes AND access and interpret information
A numerate person can weigh up options, problem solve and make appropriate decisions

31. What do we mean by Active Learning
“What we learn to do, we learn by doing”
Aristotle
“When I hear, I forget
What I see, I remember
What I do I understand”
Confucius

32. (Active Learning Strategies – Mel Silberman)
“What I hear, I forget
What I hear and see, I remember a little
What I hear, see and ask questions about or discuss with someone else, I begin to understand
When I hear see, discuss and do, I acquire knowledge and skill
What I teach to another, I master
(Active Learning Strategies – Mel Silberman)

33. Active Learning at Buckstone!

35. Classrooms = A Community of Enquiry
Children thinking and solving problems
Children making connections – “It’s nothing new”
Children talking maths
Children asking questions
Maths linked to real life
Resources which encourage all of the above
Children confident in key facts – “Learn Its”
Children use ‘working walls’ to learn and evaluate

36. Working Walls
Working walls are a resource that pupils engage with to promote learning and understanding.
They are a source of discussion.
Walls are pupil friendly and information should be relevant and useful.
Walls should be updated regularly inline with pupils learning.

37. Working Walls
Early

38. First

39. Second

40. 5 Key Numerical Strategies
Counting on and back
Doubles and near doubles
Partitioning
Bridging
10 bonds

41. Learn Its

42. The FACT Universe
Number Facts
Learn Its
1d + 1d
1d X 1d

46. Year Group
Tables to Learn
Primary 1
Counting in 10s, 5s, 2s
Primary 2
Primary 3
X10 X5 X2
Primary 4
X3 X4 X9
Primary 5
X6 X7 X8

51. Big Maths, Beat That!

52. Teaching Mental Agility
Every day
Use known fact to understand more facts (Nothing new)
Practical approaches – jottings, images, materials
Explain strategies – learn from mistakes

53. Higher Order Thinking Remembering Understanding Applying Analysing
Evaluating
Creating

54. Assessment and Tracking How is my child doing and how will I know?
Write, Say, Make and Do
PLPs
Curriculum for Excellence Levels
Standardised Testing
Learn Its and Check Ups

55. What can I do to help? Share and comment in PLPs Play with “Learn Its”
High expectations
Offer “real” opportunities
Have fun!

56. Website
New site to improve Communication
How to find us
Homework
Importance of photograph permission

57. How to find us Google search- Buckstone Primary
Buckstone Primary School - schools-online.org

58. Communication What we are including What else/ how can we improve?

59. Outdoor Learning Our aims:
“The natural world inspires children to be investigative and explorative and this underpins all their learning.” GFL 2012
Working Party
Wealth of inspirational and outstanding teaching going on throughout our school.
Our aims:
to encourage teachers to get outdoors to enhance the children's learning
use natural resources to teach, motivate and enthuse their pupils.
we want everyone to get out there, feel alive, awake and ready to discover

60. Mud Kitchen Science Mixing materials Numeracy & Math
Measuring, estimating,
reading numbers.
Social skills
Listening, talking,
co-operating,
negotiating.
Literacy & English
Imaginative writing,
instruction text,
recounts.
Drama
Role play,
movement,
mime

61. Play – Learning
Sandpit supports and enhances science, numeracy and math experiences and outcomes.
Stage sets the scene for many drama activities encouraging team work and confidence.

62. Please join us to make our MUD KITCHEN
Play, laugh & get muddy with our working party on Thursday 23rd October 2014
Our event will start at 1.00pm and finish at 2.45pm
Please wear clothes you are happy to get dirty
bring an old towel & a bag

63. Rights Respecting School
Level 2
Work to be done!
Depth of understanding of children’s rights
Global aspect
Raise awareness

64. Features of A Rights Respecting Classroom Some Features of a Rights Respecting Classroom Pupils and teachers negotiate a class charter Pupils have opportunities to make choices in their learning Displays are used to reinforce an awareness of rights and links to learning. Pupils respect and value each others similarities and differences and support each other, there are few incidences of negative behaviour, name-calling, racist or sexist comments

65. Groups
Pupil Group – created from a class representative from P3 to P7 ( 11 pupil members) Remit – to promote RRS throughout the school and to consider ideas for promoting good health Staff Group – Mrs Gordon, Miss Garven, Mrs Bailey and Mrs Donnelly ( 4 staff members) Remit – to promote the Rights of the Child throughout the school and investigate educational ideas and resources to support this Parent Group - ?? Remit – to work with pupil group and carry out an audit of current RRS knowledge and to produce a leaflet to inform new staff, pupils and parents of our work in the area of RRS.

66. Buckstone Primary School Charter
We (the children) are at the centre of every decision and action in Buckstone Primary. (article 3)
Everyone should respect each other and being in school should be fun and exciting. There should be a variety of things for us to do and we should be helped to do our best. School should/will always be a safe and healthy place to be. (articles 6, 29 and 31)
Everyone should be listened to and everyone should be heard. (articles 12 and 15)
We should treat others the way we want to be treated. Making good choices about behaviour and thinking about other people’s feelings is important. If we make a mistake we must try to make it better. (article 28)
The safety of all is the responsibility of the whole school community. (article 6)
In school we will learn about our rights. (article 42)

67. Thank You for Listening
Any Questions?