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ALl	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Enw'r Ysgol	Abercynon Infants School

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What was the focus for improvement?
• To develop pupils’ critical thinking skills and engagement with text through the implementation of the Fortune Line strategy.
• To improve standards of sequencing / classification.
• To improve awareness of the impact of experience.

What did we do?
• Shared the story of “The Rainbow Fish” with pupils.
• Discussed the feelings of the characters as events happened during the story.
• Introduced and explained the Fortune Line strategy to pupils.
• Ensured opportunities for small group interaction and for pupils to complete a fortune line for one character in the story.
• Provided opportunities for groups to feedback and discuss completed Fortune Lines.

What were the outcomes?
• Pupils engaged with the text of the story at a deeper level.
• The strategy supported the development of pupils’ sequencing and classification skills.

What evidence have we collected to demonstrate improvements?
• Completed Fortune Lines
• Annotations of children’s comments
• Photographs of activity

What have we learnt about teaching practice and pupils learning?
• The Future Line strategy can be used as a most effective tool to develop the thinking skills of children of varying ability.
• The children must be given opportunities to develop skills in listening to the opinions of others and to learn to respect these.
• If children are given time and opportunity to think carefully and to develop their own ideas then their thinking skills will develop.
• Most children will overcome their lack of confidence when involved in thinking tasks once aware that there are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers and that their views are valued.
• Teachers need to adopt a more peripheral role during thinking skills activities in order to encourage pupils to be more independent in their thinking.

What we aim to do next
• To use the Fortune Line strategy to explore the feelings of other characters from the Rainbow Fish story e.g. little blue fish.
• To develop further group work skills with the children e.g. develop their own roles of leadership and rules for group work.
• To use the Fortune Line strategy with pupils of other age ranges.
 

Supporting Documentation

1. PowerPoint of Case Study
2. Annotation of pupils’ discussion during the fortune Line activity
3. Rainbow Fish story cards

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