Term 3-Reflection

Class has 18 children. Most have settled into classroom routines and good learning is happening with most of the children. A few of the children have some behavioural issues mainly around manners, respect and honesty. It is hoped that these children can be part of the Pastoral Care programme during the term. We will also continue with our values programme with this term's topic focussing on honesty.

Reading
All but 3 of the class have moved beyond the emergent reading level. These 3 are some of the younger children in the class but there are gaps in their letter sound knowledge that need to be addressed, perhaps through work with a TA. One of these 3 has better letter sound and word knowledge than the others and will be ready to move onto L3 shortly. The other 2 children will need to be monitored and targeted for extra assistance when they move into Y 1 next year.
Other children are working at L4/L5-6/L8/L10. All are developing their word knowledge and starting to use letter sound knowledge as a strategy for solving unknown words. Some work needs to be done on monitoring and self correcting, fluency and for some children increasing their comprehension of their reading.
Of the children who have completed 1 year at school 1 will not achieve the NS. He will be 3-4 levels below and will be a prime candidate for Reading Recovery next year.

Writing
All but 3 of the class are able to write at least one sentence independently. One of these children is nearly at this stage and just needs some encouragement and support to make the move. The other 2 need help due to their low knowledge of letter sounds and high frequency words. 
Some children have problems retaining their ideas when writing and the use of talking tins may help this and I will be getting some of these this term to help these children.
Other areas that need some work with some children include finger spacing, punctuation, and expanding their ideas. These will be the focus of our shared writing sessions.