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| Young Minds |
 Anne Etheridge is developing a project where University students are involved in supporting secondary school students in their personal study. Adam Butterworth, a recent graduate and mathematician, has been supporting a GCSE maths after-school club at Hillcrest School. As well as benefiting from the support, pupils who might not otherwise have considered further education are able to make contact with students who can show them the prospects and potential of Further Education. Click_here to go to our PTL Young Minds Page. |
| Transition from Year 6 to secondary School |
 The Learning and Teaching Team leader, Angela O'Connor, is co-ordinating a scheme in Hastings to ensure that vulnerable year 6 pupils are given the support required to ensure they start secondary school as positively as possible. Good support at the crucial stage of transition can enable an anxious pupil to feel more secure at a potentially disruptive time in life. Sou |
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Writing stories |
What are we here for?
 Following research into Hastings SATs' results last year, it was decided that the curricular area most in need of attention was writing. Numeracy is offered as the need in schools arises.
Learning Assistants take groups of up to 6 pupils, whom class teachers have decided can benefit academically from the small group focus. The work generally takes place three times a week. |
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Pupils can learn about writing stories by basing their own on a given model. The photo below shows the books made by pupils in Greta Dawson's group, who used the story of Jo-Jo's Dream to create their own "lift-the-flap" books telling the story of a personal surprise. |
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| Story Boxes |
Story boxes are one of the most effective ways of giving pupils the opportunity to gain access to stories even before attempting to write them. A variety of materials are collected into a book which can be used by children to re-tell a favourite story.
 Learning Assistants have created a number of boxes covering stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and The Three Bears. A box for the story of The Iron Man, for key stage 2 pupils demonstrates how useful this approach can be across both key stages.
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| Creative Resources |
| Anita Auer joined the Learning and Teaching team in June. Enabled by her training in early years education, Anita has provided a number of motivational resources for pupils in key stage 1 who are being helped to overcome their barriers to writing. |
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How motivating a booklet in the shape of The Three Bears' house is to the six year old writer can be demonstrated in Anita's photos of pupils' work shown here.
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| Making progress in Writing in years 5 & 6 |
 Adam Butterworth joined the Learning and Teaching team in May. Adam has been supporting year 5 pupils to make headway with their writing. His invitation to them to write a personal profile for a potential future career was particularly successful, raising pupils’ self-esteem and expectations as much as their standards of writing.
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We are fortunate to have a part-time teacher in the team working with key stage 2 pupils. Janet McCormick will return to teaching year 6 pupils after a term’s sabbatical.
Jenny Allan is looking forward to gaining from her expertise in helping year 6 pupils to face the challenges of SATs but also to discover that writing can be so much more than an intimidating chore. |
| Fun and challenge in Numeracy |
The Carribean Challenge is a mathematical adventure game for key stage 2 pupils. Sharon Hagues has led 20 pupils on this exciting course at Blacklands Primary School. This adventure has 8 problems for the children to solve. Each problem has a range of answers which the children work out by taking a different problem home each week. |
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| Pupils at Blacklands were extremely motivated and enjoyed the challenge, with 10 students achieving 100%. The adventure made the most of Sharon's own skills in teaching numeracy and stretching gifted young mathematicians by responding to their potential and raising their standards. |
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