Interview help please! NQT

[lauraann1991]

Hi Everyone, I am new to this forum and I am looking for some guidance for my 1st teaching interview, it is on Thursday coming. The post is a full time maternity cover for Early years (Nursery/Reception) and Year 1 and Year 2. It is a very small school 5 children within early years and 20 in total in years 1 and 2.

I received the details of my teaching activity today and it says " using a story of your choice, show how you would use that story to develop a short literacy lesson for Years 1 & 2 and Early Years. Expect to spend 20 mins with Years 1 and 2 and 10 minutes with Early Years. On this occasion you will not have teaching assistant support".

The teaching activity is due to start at 11.30 and finish and 12.00 then straight into dinner time, so cannot run over.

So within the timings it does not give time for introducing the story which i thought was strange?

My initial ideas were something around the Gruffalo but do not want it to be a 'safe' lesson plus the Gruffalo is quite along story and can't just assume all the children know this?

So I have now started looking around the idea of 'My Granny went to Market' it is a story about a grandma who flies around the world on her magic carpet buying different things and it also incorporates numbers throughout the story. Mathematics cross-curricular is one of the schools ofsted targets. I was thinking of bringing in a 'Magic Carpet' and getting the children to sit on? or around it? whilst i read the story. Then getting the children to think about their own Magic carpet journey

Have an activity set up for EYFS and the children are to create their own magic carpet using coloured rectangular card for 20 mins .Give the children a selection of paper shapes and strips
to decorate their magic carpet. They could add sequins and glitter too. And have written on the back “On my
magic carpet I will fly to”…….and get children to answer, completing the sentence (This to be done in the 10 mins EYFS input)

and for Yr1/2 to have different ability talk boxes with different places in them the children are to engage in a speaking and listening activity taking it in turns to chose a place out of the box and discuss what it would be like there? what would they see, hear, do, buy? and the children are to chose one of these places and to do a short piece of writing.
Plenary children to share their work as a class?

Sorry for writing so much and for it being a bit of a blab, i'm still in the initial thoughts process

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Laura

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[HereIAm20]

Hi Laura

Hope it went well. Sounds great to me. I used to be a parent governor who regularly participated in EYFS/KS1/KS2 interviews. Basically we were looking to see how you engaged the children and how you dealt with mixed ability teaching.