During this week, I was on an observational placement in Terrace Road Primary School. I was placed in a year 5 & 6 class for the week. Even though I was mainly there to observe, I did walk around the class and help the children who had a problem with their work. On the 8th December, the class teacher (who is also deputy head) had to go on an inhouse course. There was no substitute teacher arranged for the day, therefore the class was left with me and one of the women who who helps out in the class, with a small amount of work set. For most of the day we just looked back through theior work books and asked them to do work based on something they had already covered.
The maths sessions throughout the week consisted of long division. There was one table of girls who found it difficult, so I set with them and used a small white board to help them work out a few of the calculations. I noticed that these children found it easier to do their calculations on the white boards first and copy it onto paper later. English lessons meant that the children had to write a letter to their pen pals in Africa. There were no science lessons this week. The welsh lesson meant that the two year 5/6 classes went into one room and did work as a large mixed ability group. During the ICT lesson, the class made a graph based on data that they had collected about the number of different cars that drive past the school. They were very excited about changing the colours and background on the chart.
The rest of the week was spent praticing the school Christmas play and making Christmas cards and calenders.
