[senco-forum] RML now read write inc

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

At our Infants School, we introduced RML for all the children who were not 
at Level 2B.

It was quite hard convincing everyone to teach following this method...some 
staff thought that it was very limiting etc...

However....at the end of the year staff were totally convinced. The rate of 
progress was amazing ..parental feedback has been good too. The children's 
confidence and motivation increased considerably.
We made sure that we looked very closely at the learning styles of the very 
few children who were not making accelerated progress and made sure that we 
gave them an alternative way of building up their literacy skills..

The brilliant outcome is that fewer children will need additional support or 
teaching in Year 2 and it has lessened my teaching workload considerably .
More children will now be able to enjoy the Literacy Hour in Key Stage 2.

Mary
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz Curtis" <sencoliz at googlemail.com>
To: <Janrolnick at aol.com>
Cc: <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] RML now read write inc

> 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 haven't got the foundation to build on and withdrawn them from  the 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:
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>> 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
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