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Zoe Nugent 

Week Four

Welcome again Angels community, I was chatting to the receptionist at the chiropractor last night booking the next appointment and I truly cannot fathom that we are nearly halfway through this term. It has been another week of great learning in classrooms, extra opportunities for our Year Six students to experience high school settings and our Student Agency Pilot Team expanding their understanding of the responsibility that goes hand in hand with having the ability to agentic!  

 

Whether you believe King Solomon (Proverbs 24:11-12) or Spider Man, it does not matter... both are right.  "With wisdom comes great responsibility"... and "with great power comes great responsibility".. our Student Agency Pilot Team is seeing this first hand.  I cannot wait to see where their choices take them to next.

 

Speaking of 'knowledge, power and responsibility'...

We have all been excited to share our school with parents/carers in our Learning Walks and Talks this week.  A huge thank you to Ms Libby Lockwood for taking the lead for our two sessions this week.

 Each session was treated to an information session in which outlined the process and purpose of Learning Walk and Talks (LW&T) and how these LW&T are one of the many tools used to support improved pedagogical practices at St Mary of the Angels.  After heading around our classrooms, we returned to hear what was noticed by our groups and to answer questions and hear generative feedback.

 

It was a wonderful opportunity to hear directly from the parents/carers what they noticed and were interested to see occuring in our classrooms.

  1. That in each classroom all of our young people were interacting and engaged with their learning
  2. They could see the flow of 'independence' and the gradual release to activities and learning
  3. That our young people seealladults in the room as SHAs (including our LW&T participants!) 
  4. SHAs really focused on concentrated and yet fluid groups, targeting their learning at their point of need 
  5. Growth is evident from ES1 to S3
  6. The consistency across all classes/stages is very strong, what is seen in ES1 is seen all the way through to S3, directed to the developmental level of the child e.g walls in ES1 are with visuals and in the older years it's written word examples 
  7. That the Third Teacher is very strong and our young people use it
  8. S3 are really lucky with the amount of wall space that they have compared to the other classes, it was good to see it as a learning space again!

If you would like to join us for our next round of LW&T in September, please contact Naomi or Amber to book your spot.  We look forward to demonstrating our continued growth to those parent/carers who choose to come again!

 

 

Until next time!

Zoe