Interactive learning takes place in the Junior School in many different formats. The children are encouraged to learn and explore together where appropriate in their own peer group setting and in their Family Group setting.
The family group system is devised to provide an opportunity for each girl to interact with other students throughout the school.
The children of different age groups work together on themes and tasks, and present their findings to each other and to the whole school where appropriate.
Group reading to younger age groups is timetabled enabling and encouraging ‘weaker’ readers to feel confident when reading to an emergent reader.
Each year the composition of the family groups are changed, as are the names of the groups. The names are based on the whole school’s theme which is altered each year.
The Family Group system aims: to stimulate collective working, develop social skills, create a sense of responsibility and respect for each other and one self and so creating a ‘bully –free’ atmosphere in the school.
