Your Essential Guide to Placements in the Primary School : Understanding Culture and Expectation (Hardcover)

1. The Primary School
What is a primary school?
How are they special?
Why do they offer placements?

2. The Purpose of Placements
Understanding what you need to do on a placement
Planning out what you will do and how you’re going to do it
Statutory days in placement
Ensuring children’s progression
Personal learning cycle

3. Preparation and Reconnaissance
The school website, past SAT scores, the local area, the teaching team
The test run
Orientation
DBS
Health and Safety

4. Day 1
How you portray yourself
What to say, what to ask
Have a trick up your sleeve

5. Establishing Effective Relations with Your Mentor and Other Professionals within the School
Meeting your mentor and setting the tone
Other adults

6. Understanding How Your School is Organised
Curriculum
Targets

7. Driving Your Placements
Showing spark
Timings
Personal organisation

8. Your Impact upon Student Learning
What is your impact?
How you will change the children (if only for a short time)
Planning for learning

9. Understanding Wider Issues
What issues impact upon the school?
SEN; behaviour; inequality
Planning early reading

10. Preparing for the End
Getting everything done with time to spare
Ensuring that you could go back
Getting the best references