Term 3: Notice - Recognise - Respond

Feeling refreshed and revived and ready for and new Term. Our Hub Inquiry last over the last two terms has lead to a collaborative effort to Notice - Recognise and Respond. 

We have been fortunate to be fluid with our groupings. Responding to Covid times has meant that we have been more isolating to one group for all our learning areas. This term we are changing it up. 

Our Writing and Maths groups are with our Guardian groups, mixed ability groupings allowing us to do buddy learning, small group, whole group a range of fluidness to meet the needs of our learners. 

Our reading groups are more based on ability but allowing us to be collaborative between groups. Our Concept and Breakthrough learning is with a range of mixed learners based on learners needs and interests.

I am feeling as though a weight is lifted off my shoulders and I am feeling free in my learning design to be deliberate and cause learning. 

Bring in the Learning process! 




To help our learners make connections to what they are learning and the learning process I have created visuals to the thinking skills and applying them in a learning context. Here are some examples:







The next blog will show evidence of how learners are using these visuals to make connections to what they are learning. 

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