Individualisation in primary classrooms is important

[rollonthesummer]

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Then, why does the daft woman from the LEA come into our school every few weeks telling us our rooms must all be the same. All she wants is endless word banks printed off from Sparklebox (despite the obvious moral issues I have with that) so they are identical!

Apparently, display boards 'are not there to showcase your children's work, Mrs Rollonthesummer!!'

Arghhhhhh!!

I've got mostly kids' work on the walls (particularly their artwork, because I've got nowhere else to store it). We've just collected our own "word banks" for the current topic. They are on the wall in my English area...massive sheets with pictures and words, which were the result of children's efforts when using a thesaurus.
All our classrooms look very different, depending on the class teacher and the year group. I couldn't teach in some of our KS1 rooms...too much stuff all over the place, too much stuff on the walls for my liking and dangling things everywhere.
We used to have an LEA woman come in before I started at my current school. Apparently all tables had to be in groups of 8.