Observation Schedule - Spring Term

Education City Staffroom

Have you visited EducaitonCity.com’s brand new Staffroom? It’s a fantastic one-stop-shop for all of your help, training and news needs. It’s accessible via the Teacher Area in the product. 

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The Staffroom Community

Have the latest news and chat delivered to your staffroom keeping you up to date with all the latest community stories, updates, competitions and what’s new. Including the:

• fun & friendly blog delivering daily news, updates, community stories and fun to your fingertips
• Teachers forum – discuss and share ideas
• News – latest news updates
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The latest topical dates and events covered with activity suggestions and more!

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Make sure you are not missing out on all the latest in the staffroom, check it out today in the Teacher Area! The Staffroom has got everything to help you with using EducationCity.com

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.