Check out the hard work being done in EAL and SET classes below.
Our SET teachers have been working away withdrawing their literacy, numeracy and social skills groups since September, and our EAL teachers have been working hard with our students for whom English is not their first language, to develop their language skills. We have introduced lots of in class teaching this year in every class, with literacy stations or numeracy stations or both in each class group. The children are particularly loving all the station teaching and parallel teaching this year.
We have been busy working on our fine motor skills in Ms Mc Govern’s SET room. We used playstix to make different objects and patterns. We also worked on putting cheerios on spaghetti sticks!!
In Ms Cassidy/Ms Burns SET class, we have been learning all about time in our maths groups. We have been using clock faces to learn the time. The children have been working really hard this term. The children enjoy using the new interactive white board to practise the skills they have learned on time.
Ms Tierney’s EAL groups were busy learning about transport and travel this term. They spent some time observing vehicles drive by our school and the older children even made some bar charts. They talked about their favourite ways to travel, played the ‘What am I?’ game, read many books including ‘Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus’ and engaged in child led play using toys and road maps.
In Ms Mc Govern’s SET room we got into the Christmas spirit by making 2D Christmas snowglobe decorations to put on our Christmas tree
Ms.Tierney’s EAL students had a busy few months learning the topics of Myself, My Family, Clothes, School, Food and Weather. During the month of December we did lots of work about Christmas and completed lots of revision work. We played some of our favourite games and activities that we have done so far this year.
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