Raise – best practice - Cystennin
Cystennin
- BOOST Phase 1
- Resourcing for reluctant learners. (BOOST literacy and numeracy) Making lessons enjoyable and stimulating and getting children participating in small groups with emphasis on literacy and Numeracy. The school makes excellent use of teaching assistants to accommodate many of these lessons. The BOOST project also offers a model for assessment, targeting and tracking.
- Resourcing for reluctant learners. (BOOST literacy and numeracy) Making lessons enjoyable and stimulating and getting children participating in small groups with emphasis on literacy and Numeracy. The school makes excellent use of teaching assistants to accommodate many of these lessons. The BOOST project also offers a model for assessment, targeting and tracking.
- Boost Phase 2
- Pupils learning through enriched/extended curriculum e.g. life skills, care of their environment centered on activities at the RSPB reserve Llandudno Junction. The children planned an excursion from the school to a travel agent in order to plan a perfect holiday. The life skills the children acquired through the planning organizing bus fares and times will be invaluable.
- Main area of learning - Key Skills and life Skills
- Pupils learning through enriched/extended curriculum e.g. life skills, care of their environment centered on activities at the RSPB reserve Llandudno Junction. The children planned an excursion from the school to a travel agent in order to plan a perfect holiday. The life skills the children acquired through the planning organizing bus fares and times will be invaluable.
- Family Learning
- Pupils, parents, grandparents (inter generational) learning ICT skills together in CFS/RAISE funded ICT suite.
- C All parents want their children to do well at school and to succeed. However, many simply don't know where to start - everything seems to have changed since their own schooldays.
- A chance to share ideas with other parents and develop their own skills
- A variety of short programmes providing a first step into learning which are designed to support parents/carers and their children improve skills both separately and together
- Increases children’s achievement
- Develops parent’s knowledge of the school curriculum and their children’s learning
- Develops a culture of lifelong learning in families
- Increases parental confidence in their own skills
- Pupils, parents, grandparents (inter generational) learning ICT skills together in CFS/RAISE funded ICT suite.
- Transition project.
- Infant feeder school making use of ICT suite
- Teacher visits - including headteacher liaison, information exchange and visits to classrooms
- Visits for children - including tours of the school, visits to classrooms, lessons and playtime.
- Induction afternoon - time for children in their new classroom with their new teacher [including a playtime]
- Exchange information - including KS1 assessment data, reading records and books, SEN, IEP.
- Parents meetings - including tours of the school, an information evening after the induction afternoon, copy of school prospectus.
- Shared events - assemblies, productions.
- Infant feeder school making use of ICT suite
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