May Log

It’s May and that faithful week of SATs came for years 2 and 6. I had the pleasure of being one of the members of staff to invigilate a couple of the tests and it was so reassuring to see them all taking it so seriously and working hard. Other to that May has been quite a chilled month, as well as a day trip to Gordon Brown with my class we also had Sports Day. The summer terms are so much different to the earlier terms, not only does the weather make daily duty a more blissful time, but by summer term your rounding up the year and finishing off, all things are set in place as they will be until the end of the year. At least it feels that way. Just this week I had time to work on the Macbeth themed room, across the corridor from my class, which has been quite fun and, I’m excited about how it will look when it’s complete. The class has been allocated their section of Macbeth that they are to perform for the Shakespeare competition, and it’s now just getting them to rehearse and perfect it. There are some strong actors in the group and it looks like it is coming together well. I had the opportunity to rehearse with those who have speaking parts and it was a pleasure! I miss being involved in drama, and to see the progress of these year 5’s acting after just half an hour with them is amazing! The more they practice the better they’ll become and I really hope I can lead rehearsals again!

This month I’ve also taught again, this time it was the Grammar starter for twenty minutes. It was great to have another go at leading the class, and this time I felt more confident in leading. However, I have to be conscious of time, as it goes so quickly. Since we have Grammar after break, it can often take the pupils some time to settle down before we can get to work. I had prepared some sentences for them to label whether they were simple, compound or complex sentences. For the extension task they would have to modify the sentence to be a different type of sentence. I thought I made my instructions clear, however when they started the task, a lot of them were writing out the whole sentence before labelling what type of sentence  it was. So in 20 minutes a lot of them were unable to finish the task even though I think they understood it.

My Netball team accomplished their first win this month! They all as players just keep developing. After their first game the other coaches and I decided the team would benefit from having set positions from now on, based on their strengths and it has certainly paid off! They’re all working at their best which benefits them as a team, we even know are most effective combinations. So hopefully we can start to arrange more games. Now the weather is a lot brighter we’ve been training outside too, which they have absolutely loved, and it also gives them a better feel for when they play on real sized courts in games.