Focus
I've often said I don't have a 'Focus Activity' planned for a session. No art or craft with an end product for the children to work on or take home, but that doesn't mean there isn't some kind of specific activity going on! Since Half Term we've been looking at leaves a lot. Some because the children's classes are named after trees and they show an interest in identifying their 'own'. For weeks there has been the opportunity to look, to ID, to draw and, to create with leaves and many children have taken that opportunity, either alone or with friends. This may be one of many activities they do in a session, or it could be something they chose to focus on for a very long time, and it has caught the interest of all the year groups across the Primary School. These have been Child-led activities that may have involved an adult at the child's request. Occasionally it may have been a suggestion by an adult that sparks an idea, or a comment from an a...