With a high proportion of children learning English as an Additional Language, Whitchurch First School places high value on Speaking and Listening. Speaking and Listening in Year One is play based as well as the more structured learning they have to do - giving the children a chance to demonstrate what they can do in a variety of situations. Children read their own stories aloud then the whole class peer assess, expressing opinions on the quality of presentation. Working with a small group of boys building Lego models, Chrissie assesses their speaking, paying attention to audibility, ordering events, appropriate technical language and expressing creative ideas. Working with small groups of children doing role play at the vets enables their teacher to provide very detailed assessments of their language development, technical vocabulary and skills in responding to questions. The feely bag maths activity gives whole class opportunities for asking higher order questions
Year 2 are building on their peer and self assessment skills acquired in Year 1. A visit from The Queen in the form of their class teacher hot seating provides them with inspiration for their own presentations and writing tasks in the course of the day. The aim of the hot seating is to get the children asking high level questions to inform their own speaking and listening. Children present a piece of formal writing, reading from the front of the class - an invitation to a royal party which the rest of the class then peer assess. Class teacher Anna Bruck assesses children's use of technical language in a verbal recount of the making process of their collages of royalty. Teaching Assistant Paola facilitates the Barrier Game intervention to encourage both speaking and listening skills with a child learning English as an Additional Language. Year group teachers meet up regularly to work on common strategies for assessment for learning
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