Newsletter 3 -11.10.19

A word from the Principal...
Welcome,
Another busy couple of weeks have gone by and we are almost at the first half term of the year.
Earlier this week, we held our parent tour for parents who have children starting school in September.
Even though that date has passed, if you know of anyone who may be interested in applying
for a place at Ludgvan, please ask them to contact us and we will happily welcome them for a tour
and to answer any questions they have.
I mentioned in our last newsletter that we welcomed leaders from Leading Edge to our school and
that I would feedback to you the outcomes. Everyone left with a really positive impression of the
school and commented about the progress made recently. ‘Theories of Action’ have been collaboratively
produced and these outline the good practice that they saw and the impact it had. These are
expressed in ‘if’ and ‘then’ statements below:
1. If there are a wide variety of thoughtful display techniques used including:
- Open questions
- Working walls
- Subject specific language
- Photographs
- Personalisation
- Celebration
- Values
- Roles and responsibilities
then work is valued, learning is scaffolded, learning becomes self-directed and all take pride in their
environment.
2. If teachers organise resources in a purposeful way, such as:
- ‘Teacher on the desk’: word mats, accessible resource trays, key words, range of equipment,
- ‘Teacher on the wall’: visual timetables, roles and responsibilities, Prompts and examples of
scaffolding, learning intentions
- ‘Teacher in the book’: feedback, highlighting, success criteria, scaffolding
then positive learning habits are developed which put the children in the centre of their learning.