I was in Christchurch for an athletics competition, so decided to visit a lower decile school to gain some ideas for Longford.
Bamford school is a full primary school located in Woolston Christchurch. It is a decile 3 school with a new senior management team and quite a few new staff.
I was in a year 7 & 8 class and notice that the students seem very low in their learning, this was confirmed by the teacher as true. Some of the students struggle with behavioural issues and this affects their learning. However, their teacher is working on behaviour with leadership roles within in the school which is engaging the students better.
The classroom set up in the year 7 & 8 Class was they had assigned seating, but where at tables rather than desks. The students had cubbies for their equipment, but the teacher has larger containers on each desk that their books and pencil cases live in. I questioned this, and she said it was because they used to muck around at their cubbies and were wasting time.
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