Marvellous Monday: 5.11.14
On Monday 3rd
November, I asked if I could share with the staff body about having
conversations with students about their favourite book. This followed a course
– run by ACSL – where they shared a rather shocking statistic with me. I
discovered that 60% of students do not have conversations with adults in any
given week. Initially, I wanted to disagree, but when you strip directed
questioning, I am not convinced this is untrue. This was exasperated with Jeff
Norton – an author who recently visited us- sharing his journey from reluctant
reader to very successful writer only occurred once he discovered ‘that’
book!
Therefore, I
have challenged myself to share a bit about my reading with students during
Resilience time. I shared my love of Enid Blyton books, and the students joined
in. Some have vowed to actually read some. A brilliant success. To launch this
further throughout the staff body, I have produced a spreadsheet to share you
‘favourite’ book (ideally from childhood) and I am going to create a literacy
display which trials throughout the school.
(Found at: T:\Teaching And Learning\Literacy)
I am so
pleased with the way staff are responding: exciting times for literacy at
Mayfield.
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