Week 22 11.03.22
Narrating Learning
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Your child's books - narrating their learning:
Your child's books - narrating their learning:
Your children's books will be coming home next week before your Parent's Consultation. Here are a few tips to help you understand what you are looking at:
Can they show you their progress? Can you see progress? Have a look at a few pieces in September and then a few pieces in February - can you see the progress - improved hand-writing, better word choice, clearer punctuation; success at more challenging questions and word problems in maths.
Can they narrate their learning? - Their narrations should help them: From January, we have driven a narration approach to support children. We share some examples and children's perspectives in today's Newsweb. In short, we support children to make sense of their own learning and progress each lesson. Through narrating, the children develop their internal voice, their self-reflection, their independence and their responsibility for and speed of learning.
What are they trying to get better at? Do they know their targets? Whole Class Feedback and Narrations will help them explain this to you in English. What are they trying to get better at next? (Try not to give them a huge list but ask them to highlight a few key next steps which will also be evident in the feedback and narrations.)
See the video of a short example modelling a conversation to support your conversations. Note: If this had been a completely real interaction, I would have spoken far less to the camera and audience and allowed Imogen even more time to retrieve from her memory, her examples of learning. See information on 'The forgetting Pit' below if you'd like to understand more.
Looking at Learning as a ParentModelling the Model
Modelling the Model
A real, unpracticed and and unscripted example of a chat about learning to support your own conversations at home.
IMG_0638[1].MOVNarrating Computing in Year 4
Narrating Computing in Year 4
Here are some Year 4 children, Autumn, Rishi and Isaac, discussing their narrations in Computing.
(Video is just uploading and should be available soon.)
IMG_4456.MOVSome Year 5 children sharing views on the impact of narration.
Narration - why children remember? The Forgetting Pit!
Narration - why children remember? The Forgetting Pit!
The Forgetting Pit analogy helps us make sense of when children remember or forget things and what we can do to help children to remember them. The use of whole class feedback, reflection and narration is a great way of making our experiences more memorable and stick around:
"Information in itself doesn’t have a coating. The coating is added when we think about information in working memory. If you don’t think about it, it doesn’t get a coating. Information which doesn’t have a coating can’t stick to the walls of the Forgetting Pit. Accordingly, it will be quickly forgotten, falling past the Point of No Return."
"Every time information is brought back into our working memory, the stickier the coating on it becomes. This means that the more we ask students to think about particular information, the more likely it will acquire the coating necessary to stick to the walls strongly. In other words, the better we will learn it." [In other words, Practice makes better!]
From https://theteachingdelusion.com/2020/03/30/the-forgetting-pit/
The Forgetting Pit is discussed in The Teaching Delusion 3: Power Up Your Pedagogy by Bruce Robertson, published by John Catt Educational.
An example of Whole Class Feedback in Year 6
An example of Whole Class Feedback in Year 6
Science Week Launch Off!
Science Week Launch Off!
Science WEEK Launch. We had a wonderful STEM Ambassador Assembly to launch Science Week today with some incredibly talented parents sharing the scientific work and research they do to make the world a better place. Thank you to Mrs Batchelor, Dr. Said and Dr. Senderovich for their amazing insight into a real scientist's life. We will share more information on our Science Week themed Newsweb next week. This week, 3R had the pleasure of using the borrowed microscopes and a range of exciting science experiences await the children!
Cross Country Success!
Cross Country Success!
On Friday, Little Green took a team of 10 girls and a team of 10 boys to compete in the York House Cross Country Competition. Over 70 children participated in the in-school try outs with the top 10 finishers qualifying for the competition.
The Girls race was a massive success, with 4 schools competing and 40 girls entered into the race. Little Green were unbelievable, winning 1st place as a team and also achieving the following race positions:
1st - Naomi (6H) (Winning time of 8:20)
2nd - Evie (5E)
3rd - Eve (6H)
4th - Isla T (6H)
7th - Isla B (5H)
8th - Edie (6R)
9th - Lily (5R)
11th - Ava B (6R)
14th - Olivia (5R)
29th - Ava L (6E)
Cross Country Success!
Cross Country Success!
The Boys team enjoyed a fantastic race, with 5 schools competing and 50 runners entered. Little Green managed to get 1 finisher inside the top 10 and everyone else inside the top 30 to give them a 2nd place finish as a team! The runners achieved the following finish positions:
10th - Hugo (5E)
11th - Jack (5E)
13th - Leon (6R)
17th - James N (5E)
21st - Max (6E)
22nd - Ted (6E)
24th - Finley (6H)
26th - Jake (6H)
27th - George N (5R)
29th - Almaan (6R)
Covid Update
Covid Update
Do report your children's positive cases here:
https://forms.gle/6SZyf4bg5ENVegBMA .
As we continue the transition to living with Covid, I am pleased to report that our Covid numbers have remained low since the beginning of term with 6 children currently isolating.
We continue to follow the latest Government guidance and this can be accessed here:
Here is our recently shared Risk Assessment for Living with Covid:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1suRfJ2ziNUAPX_OFcKqr0kkZdszoD0-Wz1-nvyFzpKE/edit?usp=sharing
Save the date:
School Fair 26th June 2022.
FOLG Treasurer opportunity - are you interested? Let us know!
NEXT FOLG MEETING: 26.4.22 Coach and Horses
Second Hand Uniform Sale - Thank you to the parents supporting the school in organising this for the community.
School Disco save the date 24th March: See below to book a space!
Any volunteers will be gratefully received! Please contact FOLG@littlegreen.herts.sch.uk
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Key Dates:
Key Dates:
Tuesday 15th March - 4E Cornet Concert 2.45pm in Hall
Thursday 17th March - Yr5 Tag Rugby Event (during school hours)
Friday 18th March - 5E trip to Leavesden Park
NOTES:
Little Request: We are developing our display of 'motivation' to show faces of people working hard and feeling challenged but getting on with 'Doing it!' Please do try and capture some of the struggles of motivation so we can drive the realities of working hard with the whole school community - #attitude to learning!
CAR PARK REMINDER
Just a polite reminder that parents should not be driving into the car park for any reason. Only Blue Badge holders should be accessing the car park. Thank you.
Continuing on Fridays: 1700-2100 - in the carpark!
Continuing on Fridays: 1700-2100 - in the carpark!
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