My Diary Day as a Teaching Assistant

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My day in the life of a Learning Support Assistant in Chickpea Reception Class at Wellstead Primary School 18th September 2014 I arrived at school at 8.20am to commence work at 8.30am. I signed in to the staff register held in the reception area. This is for reasons of Health & Safety. If there is an emergency evacuation, the school need to know if I am in the building. I went into my classroom and immediately talked with my teacher and the other class LSA about the forthcoming day. What we were teaching, how we are instructing and why we are presenting the learning in this way. This set us up for the day, we all know our role and we can deliver to the best of our ability. At 8.40am the children arrived into class. I instructed them to put their water bottle, lunch box, snack and book bag away in the correct places. This teaches them routine, discipline and the early verbal communication is essential to bring their minds round to the school day. I greeted Jayden (our pupil that I have one to one responsibility for) and I made him feel comfortable about what happens next. Whilst registration was completed by teacher, I helped set up the table activities for Phonic learning. I then opened every book bag to retrieve family photographs that had been brought in by the children and sorted anything found in book bags. (Letters for school nurse and data protection forms – all essential for our record keeping, these go to the office to update the childrens’ private records to adhere to Data Protection policy). Whilst Phonic learning was taking place I was involved in observing the children, making notes of their answers to questions or the language that they used, took a photo where possible and this was uploaded on to their personal learning record electronically later in the day. This is important to
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