Reading Moderation

Just to remind you that next Wednesday is the BSN Reading Moderation meeting:

-          EY (Pimperne)

-          Y1/2 (Downlands)

-          Y3/4 (Spetisbury)

-          Y5/6 (ABW)

All teachers are to bring evidence of 3 children's work at different levels to the meeting for moderation purposes and discussion. Tea will be served from 3.45pmand the meetings will start at 4pm and last 1 hour.

Remember to make of the meetings what you can - get something out of them that will help you and your children. 

Literacy Live

Click on the picture to follow the link to Education City's latest innovation - looks good...

Newsletter from the University of West of England

We are due to host Sarah Burge from UWE later this month and her University have sent on a newsletter that they send out. There are some lovely ideas on it for guided reading in particular - so I thought you might like a look!

Open publication - Free publishing - More literacy

Somerset Skills on Classroom Monitor

Somerset Skills are now on Classroom Monitor - hurrah! So now, for all Foundation Subjects - you must use the skills to assess your children.

Please remember - that for the skills themselves - Classroom Monitor will work slightly differently:

1) Assess your children using the skills for their year group - don't go looking for "Level" skills - they don't exist. Look for "Year Group" skills.
2) Classroom Monitor will give you a guide level as you complete your assessments. There is a matrix below to give you an idea of how this works.
3) MOST IMPORTANTLY - for the skills: click once (red) if the children have accessed the skill but not met the standards, click twice (yellow) if they've met the skill and three times (green) if they've exceeded all expectations.

Levels Matrix 

Obviously let me know if there are any issues and I'll see what I can do!

New RE Syllabus

There has been an update to the RE Syllabus in Dorset. You will have been invited to share a Dropbox folder with the resources in (which amounts to about 150MB I'm afraid) - please can you make sure you've accepted the share before next week's staff-meeting which will be led by Rose about the syllabus.

The 16 Commitments - Updated

Please click on the picture above to download the updated 16 Commitments that we all worked on at INSET. The governors have also had a good look and added their contributions too. It's time for the parents to have a look now.

Rose - maybe we should have a go at a child-friendly version from school council?

New Adobe Reader

We've all used pdf files - but they can be quite frustrating when you can't edit them.

Adobe (the company who invented them) have just released Adobe Reader X - in this reader you can highlight, annotate and then save pdf files. This is really useful for work in the classroom, sharing resources and analysis etc... If I were you, I would download it and have a go at using it now!! (Or at least when you have a spare five minutes!).

Here is the link - click here.

Here is a link to a pdf I have annotated - a useful read anyway. Right click and save.