They leapt into the unknown in January 2014 and finished their placement by abseiling down the largest Waterfall in Lesotho, raising lots of money for our continued work there.
The grand total was: £2389.41
A special thank you to Mrs Mullane and her school in Cardiff who raised over £1000 of our total!!
Thank you so much to all of you who supported our teachers....here's a snapshot of what they did in Lesotho:
Kathleho
Primary School - Kathryn Morgan
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Library area created for use by
children and teachers.
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Phonics workshop held.
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Phonics implemented in the
school.
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Phonic coordinator appointed to
oversee phonic work continuing throughout the school.
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Teaching & learning methods
workshop held.
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Reading records
established.
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Listening to children read
throughout the day
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Use of Resources
Moyeni
Primary School - Ffion Mullane
- Library area created for use by children
and teachers in Grade 1A.
- Phonics workshop held.
- Phonics implemented in the school.
- Phonic coordinator chosen, who will
oversee phonic work continuing throughout the school.
- Teaching & learning methods workshop
held.
- Teachers encouraged and shown how to
listen to children read throughout the day
- Use of Resources
- 2 teachers chosen to monitor and keep
tabs on the storeroom currently being renovated to be a library.
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Pupils from Class 5-7 chosen to be library monitors and ensure the
library is kept in order.
Phahameng Primary School - Kim Tattum
Library – A new library
has been established in the main office with school aid books. Class boxes have
also been given and to be changed on a term basis by the phonics leader/library
keeper. Books have been used during lessons for visual aids and to support learning.
Reading scheme books have been used well to develop individuals reading skills.
Phonics – Phonics is well
established in Grades 1-4 using different teaching methods from individual,
group and whole class interaction. Children’s reading ability and English
pronunciation has improved greatly in a couple of months. Reading with
individuals has been modeled well and supported the Basotho teacher to continue
this. Standard 5-7 have been introduced to phonics with short lessons, but the
school phonic leader will continue to support the Standards/grades in their
development. Phonics has been taught cross curricular in all lessons in the
grades.
Teaching & learning methods – Engaging learners with whole class, group and paired teaching.
Create sustainable changes in teaching and learning by team teaching with the
Basotho teachers to instill them with knowledge and confidence. Group work and
paired work is established in grades 1-3. Differentiated activities are used
effectively. Teaching in the Standards 5-7 developing English and Science by
encouraging active learners, using open questioning and promoting independence.
Use of Resources –
Recycled sustainable materials are used for phonics for whole class, group and
individuals. Individual chalkboards are being used in grades 1-3 for all
subjects. School aid book are being used well to locate information, read for
pleasure and to achieve the learning outcomes. Different methods of
storytelling have been demonstrated using Pie Corbett, and the use of cardboard
puppets.
Classroom
environment has become more engaging with charts and learning aids. Group
leaders have been established well in groups and used effectively to monitor
their group.
Items from the
environment (stones, sticks, bottle tops) have been used to aid learning.
Holy
Infant Primary School - Scott Baker
Library –
Extensive painting of ‘Undersea World’ mural and a word tree. Purpose – to
enhance and motivate learning in the library, and to help create a bright,
pleasant and visually stimulating communal school space. Use of the library as
an extra space for teaching e.g. grade 4 ‘waltzing’ class, and class 6 drama
warm-up/movement session on the poem ‘Evergreen’. Use of the library for the
‘Better reading partnership’ with Mopholosi High School, and also choir
rehearsals and special occasions.
Phonics –
modelling teaching across all grades and standards. Grade 3 have reached set 4
and their teacher M’e Banda will become phonics coordinator for the school.
Teaching & learning methods – group-work, pair-work, whole-class discussion, kinesthetic
learning, drama methods/warm ups, reading stories, leaving the classroom for
practical activities to aid ‘discovery’ and the ‘inquiry approach’ in science,
differentiation within phonics sessions.
Use of Resources – chalkboards, use of the schools science and maths kits, phonics
flash/sound cards, paints and pastels for artwork, minimal photocopying of
phonics soundsheets.
Mopholosi High School - Will Powell
Reading Partnership - Students from Mopholosi attended weekly sessions in the library at
Holy Infant where they would help younger children read. The aim was to reinforce not only phonics,
but to convey a love of reading. This ultimately
benefitted both schools as the Mopholosi students received certificates of
acknowledgement and there was also a noticeable improvement in some of the
children’s reading levels.
Transferable skills - Introduced a plenary into all lessons with skill cards and a
dice. Students were encouraged to think
about what they did in their lessons which promoted self-evaluation. Several colleagues observed my lessons, so
hopefully a meaningful plenary will be adapted by them in the long term.
French club - School was eager to offer another language to students. Whilst the sessions weren’t always regular,
the students did enjoy learning basic French as they saw the benefits of it
being an African language which would potentially allow them to travel. A colleague also attended the classes as she
was eager to learn French herself and for the club to continue.
Teaching and Learning methods – Workshops delivered on classroom displays and learning methods. I
introduced child-centred pedagogy with interactive games and kinesthetic
approaches as well as incorporating Drama into English lessons as a means to
promote empathy and understanding with characters.Villa Maria Primary School - Ellie Masters
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A library has been established
in an old store room. Books organized into age appropriate levels. Children
have been allowed to borrow books and a lending system has been put in place.
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The three Grade 3 teachers and
some grade two teachers have engaged fully with phonics and two phonic
coordinators have been appointed. They have already begun working with the
standard classes to follow up the Welsh teacher’s work that had been started in
those classes.
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Reading records established and
to be developed throughout the school.
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The principal had reorganized
some classes in the school so that they are taught according to ability. The
three Grade 3 classes are now higher ability, middle ability and lower ability
classes.
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The teachers also group
children within the classes.
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Use of sustainable resources.
Teachers began making their own.
Holy Trinity -
- Library organized with books graded for age appropriateness.
- Phonic and teaching methods workshops held
- Phonics implemented in the school
- Teachers shown how to listen to readers
- Phonic coordinator appointed to oversee phonic work continuing throughout the school.
And so what next for 2014/15.................recruitment is underway for LTPP 2015 and the successful candidates will return to Quthing to continue the good work done by Welsh and Basotho teachers alike. Watch this space.......and thank you for your continued support!!
