We wanted to share an exciting new collaboration that we have started this term with the Year One Neighbourhood. Every Tuesday after Assembly at 9.30am-10am the Year One children and teachers are joining us in the Year Two Neighbourhood for buddy reading.
Year One and Two children have been paired up and the children select a book to share together. The purpose of such an initiative is to not only foster positive relationships between children in different Neighbourhoods and introduce the year ones to the Year Two Neighbourhood, but also to build upon the benefits of collaborative teaching that we as teachers experience when working with each other in new contexts.
There are children of such diverse reading and comprehension skills between the two neighbourhoods that quite often we find a year one child sharing new concepts and ideas with a year two as well as vice versa. The children really capitalise on peer scaffolding whereby a slightly more advanced child can 'scaffold' the learning of another child and make the learning accessible where it may not have been independently. This is Vygotsky's 'Zone of Proximal Development' (or at least our interpretation of it) if you wanted to share in the lingo :)
So we are excited for new possibilities and growth as a Prep-Two team and wider Junior School Community and are seeking more of these opportunities to learn from each other.
See you all very soon,
The Year Two Neighbourhood Team
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