Arctic Animals Project

For the past week, your child has been working on their Arctic Animal project.
I have been so impressed with the effort and standard of work that the class are producing.

This week the children will be presenting their project in front of their peers on Thursday and Friday. This gives them from Monday - Wednesday to finish off their project.

Encourage your child to read over their project and know some of the facts about their animal so they feel confident enough to stand up in front of the class. Well done Senior Infants keep up the great work!

Team Teaching

Team Teaching

·         Our class have begun Belmayne ETNS’s Team Teaching.

·         All Children in Senior Infants are taking part.

·         The term Team Teaching is simply used to describe the fact that a number of Teachers are working with our class with children in smaller groups.

·         Children are divided into groups to work on Maths and English.

·         Team teaching compliments the Whole class teaching that your child receives every day in school and is guided by the Class Teacher.

·         Team teaching work is based on the plans of the Class Teacher and the needs of each individual group.

·         As the curriculum is child-centered, the teacher always ensures that each individual child’s needs are being met and differentiated for. This has always been the case.

·         Children are carrying out sorting/classifying/number work in Maths and Phonic/Word Identification/Reading in English etc… as is the case in a whole class.

·         The benefit of our Team Teaching is that children are working in small focused groups on their individual tasks.

·         In addition to Team Teaching your child will receive the same level of Maths and English curriculum work as they have always done.

1.       Each child works in small groups of 4/5.

2.       Team teaching happens on Monday and Tuesday.

3.       Children get 1 English session on Monday and Tuesday and 1 Maths session also on Monday and Tuesday.

5.       Each group works with 1 individual Teacher.

6.       Your child may receive a homework page from their Team Teacher which will need to be completed.