At the start of this school year, there was much discussion on social media and forums about methods of providing pupils with their own individual resources (for COVID19 reasons).
A little later than we hoped to publish this post (we've been a little busy!), but we hope it's useful to someone...
So, here's what we do at our school, how long we've been doing it and why.
Back in 2017, we visited Woodside Primary Academy. As part of our visit, we picked up a number of best practice ideas. One of which was introducing Toolkits. There are a number of reasons we took these on:
- making children accountable for looking after the stationary the school has paid for
- giving them somewhere to store the equipment
- if they move in the classroom or go to work elsewhere, they just pick up the Toolkit and off they go
- we use everything in there quite regularly.
So, what's in there?
- whiteboard & whiteboard pen
- handwriting pen, green biro & HB pencil
- ruler, protractor and scissors
- sky, grass, mud letters and punctuation
- times table grid / 150 'square'
- A B C D voting card
- red, orange, green discs
- spelling cards for high frequency words
- sentence and vocabulary booklet
- grammar knowledge organiser
And, as you may be able to see, each Toolkit and each item in it is numbered according to the child's register number. When found, lost items can be returned to pupils.
