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Pupils at Parkfield School log onto Edmodo daily to complete writing tasks, chat with classmates, and receive quick feedback. This collaborative learning platform helps improve writing skills and provides a current and up-to-date audience for students. With structured tasks and feedback, pupils can practice writing for various purposes and enhance their ICT skills. Join Edmodo to encourage your children to write freely and improve their writing abilities!
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Pupils logging onto Edmodo daily • Completing tasks set • Writing freely about anything and everything • Looking forward to comments they receive • Chatting to pupils in their class and school • Using the internet more for educational purposes • Learning lifelong ICT skills • Having fun!
FUN • Quick feedback (teachers and peers) • Gives them an audience • Current and up to date • Collaborative Learning Opportunities • Gets your children writing!
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Children can only access and send messages to their whole year group • No private messaging between children • No strangers can ‘friend’ children • Messages appear instantly but can be edited or deleted by staff if necessary • Children are regularly taught the importance of writing nice, sensible messages during e-safety lessons
Writing is the weakest area at Parkfield • Writing is a whole school target • We are very confident that Edmodo will help improve writing at Parkfield
The more pupils practise writing – the better they will get • Giving them structured tasks will improve writing for different purposes e.g. Persuasion, Recounts, Instructions, Discussions, Explanations, Reports and Stories • Structured feedback • Looking at work of other pupils • Encourages those who have poor handwriting
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Encourage them to go onto EDMODO • Encourage them to write anything! e.g. a diary, something they’ve found out, commenting on some news, a film review, a sports report etc. • Don’t complete the work for them • Get them to check any feedback • Ensure they use their feedback to improve the next piece of writing • Remind them not to use Text Speak • Sign up and comment on work
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