Gathering Steam

It's fair to say that the main events of this week were the 3-way conferences and the official hand over of the zebra group to you.

I have realised how fortunate we are to be working in this environment and the opportunities it has presented us for your induction. You have spent three weeks getting to know the children really well and developing learning relationships. In a conversation about resourcing this week, you talked about the children you have been working with ease and it stood out to us how well you know where they are at and their next steps.

The 3-way conferences gave you an opportunity to sit in with Muireann and the parents to discuss each child in your mentor group. It was a very effective way for you to culminate what you have observed over the past three weeks and to meet the families of each child. The children and their families were very welcoming of you as their new go-to mentor.

Challenges this week have included:

• gathering children's understandings of scientific change
• adapting the task on the fly when you realised what was planned for a group of children was not appropriate (You did this particularly well, BTW)
• defining our BPP for the PCT programme and really thinking through the expectations we have the people involved. 
• linking knowledge cards to the learning pebbles; can the knowledge wall be the planning document with the practice activities added to it?
• getting ready for Linc'Ed 

Next week, you are setting up a Maths/Science station as part of the Habitat's Concept Literacy. We've discussed the idea of following a child to find out what learning looks like from their perspective. I am looking forward to hearing your observations and encourage you to feed your findings and reflections back to the rest of the team.