One key factor in the ladies room was that the children kept on playing for quite a while after the bell went. The children could go and choose anything around the room. We were also looking at Modern Learning environments and talked to Nicky, the DP who said that they didn't have a lot of money at the time of their alterations so they only bought the whiteboard tops and put them on their existing tables. I could see a real advantage with having one of these tops at my kidney shaped teaching table so after talking to Stephen I emailed Furnware for a price.
We saw writing which is an intensive programme with a number of teacher aides coming in to help in the class. They have undergone a lot of work with Murray Gadd. Things that impacted on me were
- the sense of having a moveable display board board with goals etc for literacthat children chose their own writing goals now though at the beginning of the year the teacher did this
- a must- do board of activities
- the furniture including tables with whiteboard tops
- the time dedicated to play at the beginning of the day,
- WIP Work in Progress Signs
- incorporating all the groups's goals in her story modelling book.
