Pupils in 2nd to 6th classes have been taking part in the second phase of the Building Bridges of Understanding programme, which is the group work phase. In this phase, the classes were divided into groups of 4 or 5. After an initial modeling session, the groups proceeded to work on their own, with the learning support and class teacher sitting in on different
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In 2nd/3rd class we have been reading novels. A group of us have read ‘The Sheep-Pig’, by Dick King-Smith. This is the book on which the film ‘Babe’ was based. Anna and Jacob describe the plot of the novel: Farmer Hogget wins Babe a pig at the fair. A sheep-dog called Fly becomes Babe’s foster mother. Babe meets Ma, a ewe. Babe wants to
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First class have been working in stations to improve their reading , writing, listening and oral language skills. The class has been divided into 5 groups for station time, with 6 children in each group. There are 5 stations set up in the classroom and each group works at each station for 10 minutes at a time. Station teaching happens from Monday to Thursday
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The middle and senior classes have been following ‘Building Bridges of Understanding’, a reading comprehension programme aimed at giving children the strategies they need to become good readers. By learning about these strategies, children can become more involved in the text they are reading and deepen their understanding of the text. Each week, a new strategy was modelled in the classroom first by Ms.
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