Mathematics and Literacy Open Morning

Insights into the classroom

On Tuesday 16 March, Medbury held a Literacy and Mathematics Open Morning. This was an opportunity for parents to come into the classrooms and watch how the boys are learning and what they are learning.

In mathematics, boys are taught using the number framework, focusing on number knowledge and number strategies. Number knowledge involves number identification, sequencing and ordering numbers, place value and basic facts. These are all the things boys need to know about our number system. Strategies are the different ways boys can calculate whole numbers, fractions and decimals.

In literacy, the teachers follow two interconnected strands: listening, reading and viewing, and speaking, writing and presenting. When boys are writing, the focus is on ideas, structure, language and organisation. For reading, the focus is on decoding, reading fluency and literal understanding. In spelling we focus on dictated words, correcting errors in the paragraphs and recognising errors in sentences. And for oral language, we focus on being prepared, content, enthusiasm and presence.

It was really great that so many parents came around and asked what we were working on, and how we were doing our task. Hopefully, they now have a better understanding of how all the boys work and what the different classrooms are learning.

Monty Stevenson and Tom Eyre-Walker, 7M