We’ve been busy having meetings with students, their parents and Mrs C, looking at what would be appropriate learning goals to aim for by the end of the year. All students showed that they are able to identify an appropriate goal which will help them to develop their skills and learn better.
A common focus for many of our class members was to become fluent at their times tables. To do this, they will need to learn every fact by heart. When we broke this task down together, we found this wasn’t as hard as it may have seemed – in fact, many students had only about 20 equations to learn to achieve this goal! We’ll report back on our progress soon.

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• DId you enjoy your holiday?
• What do you most want to learn about this term?
• What new skills would you like to acquire?
• Which skills would you like to develop further?

Post your answers in a comment here.

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It was a very long second term with twelve weeks and lots on. The highlight was our school production, Circus Splendida. What a night! Check out our posts on the production on individual student blogs.

At the end of term, which was also the end of semester one, we reviewed our goals that we had set at the start of the year. Some people had met their goals well, some had not met them but had made some progress, whilst others had forgotten that they had set goals at all! We learned that goals are only useful if they are revisited and reviewed regularly.

So now we are on our two week winter break. Some of our students are travelling, some are staying home, others are visiting friends or relatives. I went on a quiet trip with my husband to the Grampians and Sovereign Hill, which is very different without dozens of children in tow! I also set a goal for July – to clean my desk at work (stop rolling on the floor laughing, grade 5/6C – I mean it this time!). Here’s some proof that mine is not the messiest desk on Earth:   

What are you doing these holidays? Where are you going? Have you goals to achieve? Post a comment!

Picture credits: corner desk from photobucket, picture by melheadzk92; paper pile from www.winona.edu; computer desk from www.macandphoto.com