Marshall+Laing+Primary+School+L2I

2008, 2009-2010 Jill Bonniface**
 * Marshall Laing Primary School** Literacy Coordinator **2007** **Jorti Rama

=Our Aims := ~To embed the use of the language of "we are learning to" and "we will be successful when we can". In using this language teachers need to think of the three questions; What are we learning? Why are we learning it? and How will we know when we have learnt it? ~To incorporate Blooms Taxonomy into our Inquiry Units

=Action Plan 2007:=

February - July 2007 Observations, collection of planning, staff meetings, building up data bases of ideas September 2007 - Incorporate Blooms into Inquiry plans October 2007 - Blooms is being used in Inquiry in every classroom February 2008 - New Literacy Leader - Associate Principal Jill Bonniface. Staff meetings on The Writing Process April/May 2008 - Continue to work on Literacy Writing and Blooms. = = February - December 2007 Literacy leaders have done classroom observations of LIs and SCs in action. Planning has been collected and checked to see everyone is on track. Staff have been issued with selections of ideas for LIs and SCs. Two staff meetings led by Jorti where discussions about LIs and SCs and how they link together and show progression. September 2007 EHSAS team to provide model for teachers to use when planning term 4 units. Staff meeting to introduce staff to Blooms Model. To be used on planning day 5 September. Follow the link to our model. [|Integrating Thinking.doc] October - All classrooms will have an ongoing display showing the links between Blooms and the class Inquiry work. The children in each class will be expected to be able to answer questions about what is happening. November - IBL wall displays showing evidence of BLOOMS teaching and thinking. Blooms_001.jpg [|Blooms_004.jpg] [|Blooms_007.jpg] [|Blooms_015.jpg] [|Blooms_016.jpg]

=Action Plan 2008=

February 2008 Term 1 - All staff attended staff meetings on writing. Genre for Term 1 is recounts. All children wrote a recount and this has been moderated. Staff meeting to teach recount writing. Children will rewrite recount in Term 2 to be moderated to inform us of further teaching needs. Term 2 - Text type for writing - Arguments. Staff meeting taken to introduce and another scheduled. Two staff meetings have been taken on the Blooms model for thinking skills and how to continue to incorporate this into our Inquiry Based Learning. PROBE has been introduced into the Senior School to continue to give us data about the children's reading. Term 3 - AsTTle testing for both reading and writing to get next steps. Writing PD continued - Text type Explanations Inquiry plans written with questions tied into BLOOMS. Term 4 - eAsTTle used for reading data. Text type for writing this term is Information reports. Writing has been our focus this year. Inquiry unit on Forces planned using BLOOMS. All Junior and Middle school classes have been given modified BLOOMS posters. A staff meeting held on 10 November on Thinking and Thinking maps (from Robert Swartz course) To be integrated into areas other than Inquiry next year. Specific teaching of thinking skills using that model will begin to happen.

=Action Plan 2009= Term 1 Literacy: Focus on Guided reading using Bloom's Taxonomy. E-AsTTle used for reading data, and next steps. STAR reading comp tests undertaken. Results up a little from last year. Reading 'ladder' of progress used in Parent Interviews Staff meeting on narrrative writing, (aimed to align with IBL topic next term: making an animation.)

Term 2 - Integrated learning team is now part of L2I. Technology unit planned using BLOOMS thinking model and two thinking maps are to be specifically taught throughout the school. (circle map, brace map). Teachers are keeping a technology portfolio and all have shared at our first technology checkpoint on Mon 11 May. Literacy - Reading 'ladder' given to each teacher for display. It makes levels of achievment very obvious to students and parents. Bloom's Taxonomy flip charts purchased for each teacher. Expectation is that they will have it on hand for Guided reading, for IBL, for any time they use questioning in class.

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Term 3 In-class observations (Literacy leader accompanied by the newly appointed Mentors) too took place. Focus was the use of Blooms in Guided Reading.Interview meetings were set up with the three parties and feedback and feed-forward was given. Teachers are using the flip charts as a guide. Results are favourable.

=**Action Plan 2010**= Term 1 Literacy professional Development on Writing, Spelling and teaching ESOL students. Staff meeting led by JillB on Explanation writing.Planning incorporates thinking skills, use of graphic organisers etc. Collected STAR data and compared to last year. Results are very similar at each year level. Comparison of similar cohort shows either much the same results as last year, or a slightly upward trend in the case of the Year 5 cohort. E-AsTTle more effective this year, as improvements made to the programme and data is more reliable. Language of thinking is incorporated into Guided Reading lessons and now also in writing programme.

term 2 Professional development to continue in Writing and ESOL teaching Coaches and Literacy leader to do in-class observations during writing. Language of thinking a big focus in the integrated Technology topic - Young Inventor of the Year.

Term 3 Parent interviews focus on Key Competancy goals and thinking skills.