Day 348 - Room To Swing A Cat

Tuesday March 30th

I spent this morning at Alice's school, St Faith's Primary. I sat in with their Year 6 class to get a feel for how Maths is taught in Key Stage 2 - the year before they come to Kings'.

It's such a tiny school with no more than 20 in the class with loads of room to work with. That's one of my big issues with Kings', the size of the classrooms. It really feels like you are hemmed in between the teacher's desk, the whiteboard and all the computer wires. I am very prone to trip over something at least once.

The teacher did some very good differentiation for the class. Given the whole of Year 6 are together, there must be a wide range of ability and therefore differentiated work is more critical. It was a good learning for me, an area I am not brilliant at.