[senco-forum] RML now read write inc

The children who do RML do not do the literacy strategy on the

Hear, hear Jan! I couldn't agree with you more.

I too have instituted my own teaching programmes for those children  
who haven't got the foundation to build on and withdrawn them from  
the Literacy Strategy in order to give them the skills they need to  
make real progress.

Thank you.

Cheers,

Liz

On 5 Oct 2006, at 08:18, Janrolnick at aol.com wrote:

> The children who do RML do not do the literacy strategy on the  
> grounds that
> they cannot access it. I firmly believe it is essential to build  
> proper
> foundations for reading and writing - then they can access anything  
> else.
> Otherwise the startegy becomes meaningless. With the older children  
> (Y5 & 6)  we do a
> core of RML but also bits from the strategy as relevant. Ofsted are  
> OK  with
> this - see the RML website. Surely it is more improtant we cater  
> for the  needs
> of the children than worry about jumping through hoops?
>
>
> Janice Rolnick
> SENCO/AST

Liz Curtis
KS1 Ex- SENCO/ICT Co-ordinator
Supply teaching at the moment.
Northumberland