Our final meeting will be on Tuesday 9th July 5.00-6.30 in Charles Street Building 12.4.12.

Emily, Phil and Eleanor- it would be wonderful if you were able to stay afterwards – until 7- to share the postcards you weren’t able to bring along this week. No problem if not- we can try and find another opportunity. I’d be really grateful if you’d let me know.

Tuesday 9th will be  our last opportunity to share postcards, so we agreed that each person would focus on an aspect of their experience of literacy provision that they feel they want to communicate that hasn’t been covered yet. This could be anything at all, but would be chosen with the exhibition audience in mind- what would we like to communicate to them? What might they not know about? What could you count/measure?

We came up with some possible ideas at our meeting:

  • what travels into, out of and across literacy classrooms (and how far)
  • interruptions (how many of different types…perhaps linked to feelings)
  • what is sacrificed (i.e. last week people logged what they did over a week connected with literacy teaching. What about what they didn’t do?)
  • laughter (number of moments of different kinds of laughter logged against different kinds of activities/times in the day)
  • week of being nice (e.g. number of times you were actively nice to pupils, colleagues)
  • routines/managing resources (e.g. numbers of things used in different spaces, numbers of things at certain times of the day)
  • common phrases (how often used)

Other ideas are  very welcome- but it’s worth bearing in mind that this is the last postcard sharing event- of course you could do more than one (!)

Whatever you decide, please could you focus on counting  or measuring something, and then finding a way to represent the amounts you have counted, thinking as creatively as you like about how to represent what you found (but which in some way helps to represent relative quantities counted- if that makes sense).