This week, we’re sharing another set of ideas that worked very effectively at Georgian Gardens Primary School, near Brighton. The school gave us the topic for each year group and asked us to create an oracy activity. In both Tom and Jason’s sessions, a general theme emerged of making decisions within a co-created story. We […]
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One of the delights of a typical day in a school is the chance to work with Reception. At that age, there are three main aims to a session – maximizing engagement, improving paired talk and getting children to give reasons for their answers. Of all the approaches we have, there’s none better than creating
Last week we sent a bulletin about clever decisions. This week, in a kind of “Cleverness Part II”, we’re talking cows. I (Jason) ran an assembly at Stivichall Primary this morning, and I used the intriguing news story of a cow that has been seen to use a tool, something usually thought as reserved for “cleverer” animals.
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