Good Practice Database >> Target Practice: Hit or Miss
| LA | Rhondda Cynon Taf | School Name | Perthcelyn Community Primary School |
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What was the focus for improvement?
• To develop pupils’ early classification and sorting skills
• To encourage pupils to begin to justify/express their opinions and choices to others
What did we do?
• Implemented the Target Practice strategy in various topics e.g. colour, nursery rhymes, Nativity story.
What were the outcomes?
• Pupils enjoyed the strategy and engaged with the pictures during the classification.
• It was a successful strategy to support pupils with the recall of information.
• Through questioning by nursery staff, the strategy encouraged pupils to justify their choices to others.
What evidence have we collected to demonstrate improvements?
• Assessment observation notes made of pupils by Nursery staff undertaking target board activities.
• Photographs of children using the target board.
• Target boards completed by the children
• Notes of children’s verbal answers / responses when encouraged to justify / explain their choices.
What have we learnt about teaching practice and pupils learning?
• The target practice board provides a worthwhile and alternative means to sorting and classifying objects, pictures, words and statements.
• Further opportunities need to be developed for the children to be able to make their own choices. Many looked towards their peers to see where they were placing the pictures on the target board.
• Children were able to recall information more easily using pictures.
• Children enjoyed sorting and classifying in this way as it was presented as a game as opposed to the sorting rings and sorting bowls often used regularly in an Early Years setting.
What we aim to do next
• To further develop the target board practice strategy in all areas of learning.
• To extend the use of the target board to other classes in our Foundation Phase department.
• To develop further thinking skills strategies, which allow children to analyse, sort and classify information.
• To further encourage children to give opinions and reasons for choices.
Supporting Documentation
PowerPoint - example of Target Practice Board
PowerPoint – pictures of pupils engaged with their task
Think 2 Learn – action research template
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PowerPoint - example of Target Practice Board | 371.5 KB | ||
| Practise Board for Exercise | ||||
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PowerPoint – pictures of pupils engaged with their task | 339.5 KB | ||
| Examples of Children using the Target Practise Board | ||||
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Think 2 Learn – action research template | 42.5 KB | ||
| Analyis and Evaluation of Excrcise | ||||