This year I have followed the majority of my class up into Year-6 from Year-5, and as a classroom teacher who witnessed the Summer drop off every year, all I can say to the Summer Learning Journey (SLJ) team is,
THANK YOU!
Over the Summer holidays a total of 52 learners from Pt England School interacted with the SLJ, organised and run by Rachel Williamson and her team. Over the 6 weeks holiday Rachel created blogging tasks for our learners to work on from home.
The blogging activities offered engaging and meaningful tasks that required critical thinking and research skills. Every blog post was commented on by at least 1 adult, but Rachel's team more than often engaged in meaningful back and forth dialogic conversations with the learners, via their blogs.
The craziest part of the whole Summer Learning Journey was that I as the classroom teacher, didn't have to do a thing! The kids interacted with the content, and with SLJ team completely independently. In fact while all this was going on, my laptop sat gathering dust at home while I travelled the beautiful country of Thailand. Every time that I did log into my emails from my phone, I was bombarded with hundreds of Blog-post and comment notifications from my learners, which was unreal (I also felt very guilty!).
This year, 7 of the learners in my literacy class engaged with the SLJ content, and two of them actually placed 2nd, and 3rd in the points challenge (out of the whole school). This year now that my class is majority Year-6 I am hoping that more of my learners will be able to take their chromebooks home and engage with the SLJ in the holidays.
Although it is only the second week back, I have already noticed a difference in the readiness and focus for learning between my learners who blogged in the holidays, and those that didn't. I eagerly await their PAT and running record results after testing week.
THANK YOU!
Over the Summer holidays a total of 52 learners from Pt England School interacted with the SLJ, organised and run by Rachel Williamson and her team. Over the 6 weeks holiday Rachel created blogging tasks for our learners to work on from home.
The blogging activities offered engaging and meaningful tasks that required critical thinking and research skills. Every blog post was commented on by at least 1 adult, but Rachel's team more than often engaged in meaningful back and forth dialogic conversations with the learners, via their blogs.
The craziest part of the whole Summer Learning Journey was that I as the classroom teacher, didn't have to do a thing! The kids interacted with the content, and with SLJ team completely independently. In fact while all this was going on, my laptop sat gathering dust at home while I travelled the beautiful country of Thailand. Every time that I did log into my emails from my phone, I was bombarded with hundreds of Blog-post and comment notifications from my learners, which was unreal (I also felt very guilty!).
This year, 7 of the learners in my literacy class engaged with the SLJ content, and two of them actually placed 2nd, and 3rd in the points challenge (out of the whole school). This year now that my class is majority Year-6 I am hoping that more of my learners will be able to take their chromebooks home and engage with the SLJ in the holidays.
Although it is only the second week back, I have already noticed a difference in the readiness and focus for learning between my learners who blogged in the holidays, and those that didn't. I eagerly await their PAT and running record results after testing week.
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