Primary School Open Classrooms

“Look and Learn” Primary Open Classrooms

This year we are excited to be able to welcome parents and carers back into the Primary classrooms for our “Look and Learn” Open Classroom lessons. These lessons will provide a window into the varied teaching strategies and learning opportunities that the girls engage with every day. It will also allow parents and carers the chance to step into our learning space and become a student once again. Afterall, things may have changed a little since your school days!

Across the year, a variety of Key Learning Areas will be featured, allowing parents and carers the opportunity to discover more about how we approach the teaching of these subjects and to witness firsthand the challenging and engaging approaches we take.

Please note that all year groups will showcase the subjects of Maths and English over the course of the year.

The dates of the Term 1 Look and Learn Sessions are:

Following on from the “Look and Learn” lessons, we encourage you to spend some time discussing with your daughter what learning can look like in this subject and the others she engages with at SCEGGS.

Some questions you might like to ask are:

• What sort of tasks/activities do you enjoy doing most in this subject? Why?
• What learning are you most proud of in this subject?
• Can you think of a time you surprised yourself during a lesson and did something you thought you couldn’t do? How did this feel?
• Share a time when you felt really challenged by a learning task and found yourself in the Learning Pit. What made it challenging? How did you overcome this challenge? How did you feel when you overcame this challenge?
• What do you do if you find a task difficult? How do you approach challenging tasks?
• Can you think of a time when you used one of the learner qualities (collaboration, curiosity, courage, flexibility, persistence, reflection) during a lesson? Why was it important to use this quality? How did it help you to be a better learner?
• What do you think you would like to learn more about in this subject?
• What are you trying to work on and improve in this subject? How do you think your teacher could help you with this? What could you do as a learner to improve?

We would also warmly welcome any questions that you might have following these lessons, that may aid either your own understanding of how this subject is taught at SCEGGS, or help you consider how you can support your daughter’s learning at home.

We look forward to seeing many of you over the next few weeks.

Helen Dempsey
Head of Primary