Deciding Our Project

Tuesday 19^th September 2017:

After the introductory seminar of learning within the community we met together to speak about our initial ideas and interests of where our project could be. As a group we are all aiming to be future primary school teachers, therefore it was important to us that we picked a project that had an educational goal which worked with primary school children. We each individually emailed separate settings so that we could pick the most suitable project.

After hearing back from all of the settings we decided that St Mary’s Catholic school would be where we volunteered and carried out the project of organising the library and raising boy’s achievement in reading. We felt this project had the best educational outcome and would help develop our knowledge to prepare us for future teaching. The gender gap of reading and writing is a current issue within education and needs to be tackled. It has great relevance for future teacher’s and we were excited at the prospect of being part of closing that gap and raising achievement for male pupil at St Mary’s.

Once we confirmed the volunteering with Assistant Head teacher Isaac Haskell we planned to meet on the 16^th October to clarify and organise the project. Prior to the meeting we planned to meet and discuss our initial ideas and prepare for the meeting.