Being up Front with FronterFronter and Literacy

Maria Richards & Annie FisherSomerset Literacy Consultants

Focus for Fronter

• Somerset Exemplified Units

• Collaborative working, independence and choice

• Supporting training – Talk for Writing

• Cross curricular units and literacy

Somerset Exemplified Units

• Fronter functionality

• Specific Fronter tools:– Fronter shared document– Fronter forums: – Fronter stickies – Fronter pages– Individual folders for pupils within Fronter

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Somerset Exemplified UnitsY5 NF U1 Instructions - GoGivers

Somerset Exemplified Units

• Exploit opportunities to use Fronter tools through a unit

• All units in Fronter: Primary Literacy Room

• Cherry pick resources to produce custom rooms for teaching/activities

Fronter Projects: G&TRoom: The Writing Workshop KS2

• Pilot project – ‘Writers’ Workshop’

• Meeting the needs of more able writers

• Peer conferencing across schools

• 8 schools – 4 pupils from Y5/Y6

• ASTs

• Four week project – narrative

• Very well received – pupils and teachers

• KS2 writer’s workshop available to all schools

Talk for WritingRoom: The Hatman and the Monkeys

• Storytelling and Story Making

• Year 2/Year 3

• The Hatman and the Monkeys

• Imitate Innovate Invent

Talk for WritingRoom: Poetry Room KS2

• Poetry

• Year 4 – exploring form

• Imitate, Innovate, Invent

Cross curricular links

• A Sense of Place: Bridgwater

• Settlements

• My Place

• Fieldwork

• Digital Mediascape

Contacts:

• Annie FisherAFisher@somerset.gov.uk

• Maria Richardsmrichards1@somerset.gov.uk

• Julia BriggsJBriggs@somerset.gov.uk

• Amy BlackmoreAYBlackmore@somerset.gov.uk