http://www.misseducated.com diary of a young teacher Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:31:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So we just reached the end of our cross-curricular project on Australia... it's been hectic and very, very hard work, but the reason we're doing it was brought home to me this week. The idea of introducing a project based curriculum was basically to improve enjoyment of the curriculum, give the ... http://www.misseducated.com/?p=77 **Note to self: volunteering to take 90 children into the hall for games while others set up party food in the classrooms... not a good idea. Let's not do that again.** Assessments were over and finished with at the end of last week thankfully. We had panto on Friday ... http://www.misseducated.com/?p=76 And so comes the gradual (or not so gradual) build of of excitement as we get closer to Christmas. Tomorrow brings the first day that the children get to open their advent calendars and eat chocolate with their breakfast. This means an inevitable decline in their attention span ... http://www.misseducated.com/?p=75 We are selling raffle tickets for a fundraising scheme at the moment.  The children have the opportunity to buy tickets at playtimes and lunchtimes for 20p per ticket. Yesterday one of our children asked for two raffle tickets and handed the seller two plastic 20p pieces that he'd taken from his classroom. I ... http://www.misseducated.com/?p=74 One of my children has pretty severe emotional and behavioural problems and was a big challenge for the teachers he's had for the past two years.  It seemed to have been getting worse, then slightly better as we understood more of what was going on inside his head at his ... http://www.misseducated.com/?p=73