The first part of my new role is to be the key person for a small group of 15 nursery children. This is within a team of three teachers and one teaching assistant with a total of 45 children, and as part of the larger nursery team which totals six teachers and two teaching assistants and 90 children. Challenging enough to join such a fantastic team this late in the year!
The second part of my new role is as Foundation Stage Interventions Leader. And this is what is particularly exciting as it is a new role within the school which I now have the opportunity to shape and mould into something that has the potential to make a huge impact on the children and their learning. It certainly fits with the schools motto of aiming high, to enable our pupils to make the very best of their skills, talents and abilities.
The school already has several interventions in place including Musical Interaction, sessions for SALT (Speech and Language Therapy), as well as Dialogical Book Talk, Fun Fit and EAL work. And although these are all crucial to the children they help, I view my new role as being much wider than that.
I intend to look across the children in nursery and reception to identify those children who are plodding along nicely, but could be capable of so much more, as well as those who are of middle ability who might benefit from targeted interventions to ensure that they progress to their full potential.
I also want to ensure that those who are gifted and talented are continually challenged. By looking at their assessment data, and through communication with the class teachers, I want to ensure that every child has every opportunity to achieve. It may involve running small group sessions myself, or helping direct resources to those who need it. It also gives me the opportunity to implement projects like Talk for Writing and Communication Friendly Spaces in a more systematic and targeted way.
However this new role progresses, it is exciting to the school as a whole to be able to continually push the boundaries, as well as for me personally to be able to make a real difference to children who may ordinarily, in a busy school, be overlooked.
I will miss my reception leadership post, the fantastic team and children I have been working with. But I can look forward with excited anticipation at what my new role could bring.
Having been reception leader for the past two years, Leisa Towle is now about to embark on an exciting new role in this very large primary school.
The first part of my new role is to be the key person for a small group of 15 nursery children. This is within a team of three teachers and one teaching assistant with a total of 45 children, and as part of the larger nursery team which totals six teachers and two teaching assistants and 90 children. Challenging enough to join such a fantastic team this late in the year!
The second part of my new role is as Foundation Stage Interventions Leader. And this is what is particularly exciting as it is a new role within the school which I now have the opportunity to shape and mould into something that has the potential to make a huge impact on the children and their learning. It certainly fits with the schools motto of aiming high, to enable our pupils to make the very best of their skills, talents and abilities.
The school already has several interventions in place including Musical Interaction, sessions for SALT (Speech and Language Therapy), as well as Dialogical Book Talk, Fun Fit and EAL work. And although these are all crucial to the children they help, I view my new role as being much wider than that.
I intend to look across the children in nursery and reception to identify those children who are plodding along nicely, but could be capable of so much more, as well as those who are of middle ability who might benefit from targeted interventions to ensure that they progress to their full potential.
I also want to ensure that those who are gifted and talented are continually challenged. By looking at their assessment data, and through communication with the class teachers, I want to ensure that every child has every opportunity to achieve. It may involve running small group sessions myself, or helping direct resources to those who need it. It also gives me the opportunity to implement projects like Talk for Writing and Communication Friendly Spaces in a more systematic and targeted way.
However this new role progresses, it is exciting to the school as a whole to be able to continually push the boundaries, as well as for me personally to be able to make a real difference to children who may ordinarily, in a busy school, be overlooked.
I will miss my reception leadership post, the fantastic team and children I have been working with. But I can look forward with excited anticipation at what my new role could bring.
