First Day Back

It's amazing that no matter how long you are away from school, within 5 minutes of walking through the door it's like you've never been away.

Arrived back at school to find that one of my brand new fish (Joey) has died. He was only a month old... We'll have to buy a new one!

Had INSET about the new English framework. It seems to me to be a good thing that there are less objectives for each year group. It's pleasing to see that for Year Six there are 3 revision units which are likely to be the first units we put into operation. Our head suggests that with the amalgamation in September, we should wait until then to try to start using the framework properly.

We also began to use Ros Wilson's VCOP system. We are having some posters prepared for ourselves and the children to refer to in the classroom. All the staff are going to adopt the VCOP Writing Pyramids. We are going to adopt her method of marking for the the Nfer-Nelson tests the children take in February and the other year groups in the Optional SATs.

Have any other schools started to use the new frameworks yet?