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This year has been a learning opportunity for me. I have developed myself both as a leader and as a teacher. I think the biggest area of growth has been my leadership of people. Learning how to effectively communicate and work with others to reach a common goal.

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I attended this webinar to both better understand the new curriculum and look at its implications as an English Curriculum lead as well as a Year 1 teacher.

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The Revised Early Years Framework 2021

In this webinar we looked at the significant changes to the revised framework and the impact that these may have on policy and practice. As always, Alistair will be including practical ideas based on real practice and research to support you in creating effective, impactful provision that reflect the requirements of the revised document.

Run time: 1hr 40 mins.

This webinar was recorded on 9th June 2021.

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In this webinar we looked at the significant changes to the revised framework and the impact that these may have on policy and practice. As always, Alistair will be including practical ideas based on real practice and research to support you in creating effective, impactful provision that reflect the requirements of the revised document.

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In order to help improve children's reading skills in Year 1 I delivered a phonics screening workshop for Year 1 parents. I provided them with a better understanding of what phonics is so that they can support their learning at home. I also explained what the end of year phonics screening is and how they can support their child in preparing for this.

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Leading by example I have set expectations for English displays in my team. The displays should be engaging, include key vocabulary and demonstrate the learning journey the children are on. There is also the inclusion of visual targets so children can make reference to those things they are learning for each unit of work.

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I delivered a workshop for parents informing them about our new reading scheme PM Benchmark. Parent's are now involved with their children's reading, interested in their levels and their areas of development. The teacher's are able to share this with ease using the running records that are carried out every half term.

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I both planned and delivered a Science lesson for the GEMS Review the second time. The observers were impressed with my lesson and encouraged me to look more closely at challenge throughout the lesson.

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Delivering a presentation of my impact has allowed me to have the opportunity evaluate and reflect on the impact I have had as a leader as well as the impact that leadership has had on me.

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1. Lead the team in implementing new technologies - Literacy Planet
2. Monitors and reviews team performance and identifies ways that enhances performance and progress made by students

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I was observed in Maths for GEMS review and received some very positive feedback about my lesson.

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1. To continue to support team with planning to ensure it is of consistently high quality.
2. Use the data from our second phonics screening practise to target children and ensure they are making progress.
3. Spend more time on MER - create opportunities to drop into lessons and do book looks to ensure I am aware of what is happening in my subject.

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Following the collation of our evidence for inspection we had a meeting with members of SLT. We discussed the impact of the changes that we have made since taking on the role. I found it a point of self growth as it was the first time where I had had an experience like this. It enabled me to consider the impact of the steps I have taken within my role as well as considering the next steps I want to take to enhance the teaching and learning of English in FS and Year 1.

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It was interesting to deliver this PD as it enabled me to work collaboratively with the FS2 team to shape what mastery looks like in EYFS.

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Working with others in the English department I will be helping to run the World book day celebrations in WIS.

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1. Confidence to support under performing teachers to encourage them to be reflective in their practise.
- Support with personalising learning (share example of 1D lessons, allocate time to differentiate English planning).
- Get VR's LA to model holding group sessions.
- Action research - intensive phonics programme for 1E students? Use updated phonics assessment to group students.

2.  Show initiative and take a lead on driving collaborations across English in lower, middle, upper school.
-  Set up - Whole School Events folder and share with TFT.
- Lead on WBD
- Find other opportunities to work with other leaders across school to raise your profile.
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Following a QA of the data for DC2 I had a conversation with a teacher regarding her data collection. We discussed why there had been a jump and I set expectations for what I would expect the children to be doing and demonstrating in their books to be a secure writer. I will follow this up during the next moderation by sitting with this teacher, as well as them being a focus during book looks.

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Carrying out learning walks across the year groups that I am lead for was very interesting. It allowed me to see the different ways in which English and Phonics is taught, both through adaptation of the curriculum and adaptation for the children in each classes needs. I was able to celebrate the successes of the changes that have been implemented this year under my leadership as well as give constructive next steps to keep driving the standards of the L & T in English.

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To be able to correctly

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Attended PD led by the Science CL following the GEMS review - discussed how Science planning should look and next steps for development.
I applied this to my own planning when I was on Science and received positive feedback.
"Hi Vicky

Think this is the first time I’ve sent a full green QA, it’s clear you used the QA template to guide planning as everything we need is included. Planning looks great, children are going to love this experiment and I’m really excited to teach it.

Thanks for your hard work."

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Attended a PD around the delivery of Maths in Year 1. Discussed the use of quadrant recall as a starter - encouraging mental maths recall skills as well as plugging gaps by revisiting them. Really like the concept and made sure to use it and be thoughtful in its application in my planning.

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Attended this session led by JOS. This led me to reflect on my dc2 analysis and make changes to some of my actions to ensure that they are designed to have the most impact.

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Led staff PD around supporting children with writing during lesson time and interventions. Encouraged the LA/LSAs to allow the children to do the work and play a supportive and guiding role. Have them lots of tools and ideas for how to support as well.
Assistant head for inclusion really appreciated the PD and gave some positive feedback.
"Good afternoon,

I just wanted to say a big thank you for the wonderful training you created for the LAs and LSAs on Friday.  I was flitting from meet to meet, and I was so impressed with the amount of information you gave, the careful explanations of strategies and techniques, and the range of ideas you shared in such a short amount of time.  I know the LAs and LSAs appreciated it and found it incredibly useful.

Thank you for your time and preparation here; it is very much appreciated."

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Feedback from the Head of Inclusion following delivery of PD for the LAs and LSAs

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Feedback from the Head of Inclusion following delivery of PD for the LAs and LSAs

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Good afternoon,

I just wanted to say a big thank you for the wonderful training you created for the LAs and LSAs on Friday.  I was flitting from meet to meet, and I was so impressed with the amount of information you gave, the careful explanations of strategies and techniques, and the range of ideas you shared in such a short amount of time.  I know the LAs and LSAs appreciated it and found it incredibly useful.

Thank you for your time and preparation here; it is very much appreciated.

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Creating and managing a challenge for lower school allowed me to have impact on SPAG skills not only in my year group but across several year groups.

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I attended and led on the moderation of writing across FS1, FS2 and Year 1. Working with the Year leads we composed what the children should have achieved to be a S,S+,M etc. This was used as a guide to moderate the children's work against. Padlets were also created to mark check points on the children's development throughout the year.

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Year 1 Phonics Screening parent workshop

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Year 1 Phonics Screening parent workshop

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I led the workshop to inform parents about the screening and help them to better understand how to support their children at home. This should in turn have impact on the data as parents can support their learning with more awareness of the skills required to help the children.

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Feedback from workshop in staff daily bulletin

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Feedback from workshop in staff daily bulletin

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Shout out…

A massive thank you and well done to Vicky Rimmer who confidently delivered the PM Benchmarking parent webinar yesterday to over 70 parents. Your confidence and knowledge shone through and the feedback we’ve had from parents has been really positive. Thank you for your hard work.

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1. Approach new opportunities or initiatives with energy and drive.

2. Hold honest and transparent conversations with the people you lead.

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Viewed the ABC webinar regarding the new framework as well as reading the new profiles in details

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Delivered PD to primary staff regarding the new Reading and Handwriting initiatives we are driving as an English team.

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I delivered guided reading PD for Year 1 to discuss how we were going to teach this to the children and what format we would like it to take.

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I led the PD for the introduction of running records into the lower school for the 3 year groups.

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Created my first action plan for my department. Learnt how to create a KPI and set targets for how to achieve these.

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I received a lot of positive feedback from my reading and phonics workshop from both parents and staff

"Hello Vicky,

I just wanted to share with you a comment from a parent that attended your workshop:

Thank you for all of your effort with English and in particular reading.  We are only in Week 3 and parents are already seeing positive changes! You are making a great impact. Thank you 😊"

"Thank you Vicky, I’ve had some lovely feedback saying how informative it was.

😊

Have a lovely weekend when it arrives

Vicky"

A member of staff who is also a parent approached me in the corridor to thank me for how informative the parent workshop was as she had viewed the recording - she said it really made it clear how to help her daughter with her reading.

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This term has brought about new challenges for my leadership. From analysis of DC2 it was clear that I needed to deep dive into the data, especially in Year 1 and help support teachers with their different classes. I feel like it was a growth opportunity as I was able to critically reflect on my own practise as well as the practise of others and develop strategies to support different learners, allowing me to have impact for the wider year group.

It has also been interesting to work with the wider English team across the school to plan events including the literacy festival and world book day.

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This term we effectively managed to integrate a new reading scheme and handwriting scheme into the lower school. Guided reading is now being taught well in the lower school. It has been challenging regarding time management with a class of Year 1 children who need a lot in the first half term and it is something I will need to reflect on with a view to teaching next year as at times it was overwhelming. I have had an impact of the data for DC1 which is looking more positive then it has in recent years which is due to the efforts we have put in.

I am learning to be an effective leader and I really enjoyed the process of creating an action plan as it allowed me to focus my intentions of the year, giving me a measured goal to demonstrate my impact further.