Classroom organisation is broadly satisfactory overall. In a few
cases practice and systems within the classroom were good supporting
the learning environment particularly.
In a minority of cases classroom organisation showed, some weaknesses
and the standard of maintenance, in these, was modest.
Evidence
In classrooms where organisation was good the following observations
were made.
i. Children immediately knew where equipment was and would therefore
be able to resource themselves when necessary.
ii. The drawers of equipment were correctly labelled and organised
in such a way to enable the contents to be checked at a glance.
iii. Children were allocated a drawer to monitor and everyone
seemed aware of their responsibilities and could say, without
reference, what items were in their care.
In classrooms where organisation was less satisfactory the following
observations were made.
i. Drawer contents were in disarray, so to enable a check to be
carried out the resources would have to be removed and tidied.
ii. Resources were not in a condition to be used straight away,
but would require cleaning first.
iii. Items were not grouped together e.g. scissors could be in
a number of drawers.
Overall, the standard was satisfactory but a review of systems
within a classroom never comes amiss.
N.B.
If I was awarding a cup for this it would go to Carol.
*A complete stock check is required by all year groups during
the week 21st - 25th March. Year groups should try to co-ordinate
their checks.
A complete list of losses for the year group needs to be
with me to enable re-ordering for the year 94/95.
Any excess stock - if not belonging to the year group, SHOULD
be returned to me by 25th March. It was clear that several
classes do have an excess of some items.
COMMENT
The review was carried out using set criteria in all rooms to
allow for comparison. Practical organisation and procedures were
focused on as these offered concrete evidence.
Where expectations were high the students had a large measure
of responsibility for their rooms and responded well to this.
Similarly where advice and guidance given in the past has been
followed organisation and maintenance was good:
There is some room for improvement, but how to achieve this without
being too prescriptive/dictational, could be difficult.