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S… Speaker 2 (AIA6)
Okay, so have you ever done a role like this
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before where you've been involved in setting a school up from scratch?
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S… Speaker 1 (AIA6)
No,
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I've been in very well established schools that have been around
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for quite a while,
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so it was quite an exciting project to do.
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S… Speaker 2 (AIA6)
It feels like a dream job,
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like your vision,
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S… Speaker 1 (AIA6)
your ideas.
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S… Speaker 1 (AIA6)
Yeah, and when I interviewed for it,
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I chatted with those involved in chatting with Ruth.
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and there were many reasons to come but the opportunity to be part
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of something from day one i felt was unique because certainly if i go
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home it's highly unlikely to happen it happens a
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little bit but still quite unique um so that was a big big thing
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for me to be able to be a part of that and all the learning that will come with that
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as well yeah um like i've already learned so much that i really i didn't know that
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i didn't know yeah um if you know what i mean just for my clarification ah
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you're going
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into head of primary years and and
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how do you envision like what's your vision for primary years so
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S… Speaker 1 (AIA6)
curriculum wise
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IB at the heart,
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inquiry,
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building on what's already happened in the early years,
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that player -based learning,
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taking it into very inquiry learning,
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students taking ownership over their own area,
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but also don't want to lose the rigour,
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which is why we bought in that UK national benchmark,
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which I personally think gives parents some reassurance if
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those that are unsure about IB,
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they're a little bit unsure,
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but you talk to them about what the IB offers,
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you then suggest to them our curriculum design only provides these benchmarks
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to this,
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And Dubai's a very transient place.
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What if I go home and I go to another one?
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So providing that sort of gives them a really rich diet
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of education.
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They get the rigour,
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they're developing the skills,
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the skills that they'll go on to use for many,
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many years beyond school.
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So yeah,
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I think the curriculum will be a fantastic curriculum to follow.
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The school in general,
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the facilities,
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the access and opportunity it will provide.
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I think it's incredible.
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And that's what I see for primary children is access and opportunity.
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Some of them,
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let's take sport,
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for example, they don't yet know what they're like.
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So through our sport programme,
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we'll develop skills.
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We'll introduce them to as many new sports as possible,
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get access,
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and then provide opportunities to follow what it is that they like to do.
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I know from my going to scores very much,
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you go with football,
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you go with this.
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And what your friends want to do.
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But if we can provide as many...
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opportunities as possible we can let them find their own path and
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one of the things we're also doing is CCAs or ASAs whatever you'd like to call them before
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and after school so trying to fit with that family life as well and being conscious
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that sometimes children don't have the opportunity to go to the ASAs after school so
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let's provide them before as well and just try and open up the breadth of experience
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and opportunities for them and that's the biggest hope for the Barron is both
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of those everything coming together and providing a really rich
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experience for the children.
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What will be the moment when you sit back and
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go, yeah,
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I've done my job and I've done it well?
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I don't know if that moment comes,
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because you could say when the school opens will be a significant
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point, because we're here at the moment,
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we'll see the model,
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we go to the site,
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so it'll be a really significant day when we're moving,
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and then again when it opens.
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I think there'll just be a number of significant times,
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because the school's going to grow year and year and year.
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It'll intentionally start quite small.
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So at the end of the first year will be okay,
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first year done.
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But then the next year will be a new challenge because it will be a much larger sport.
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And then again,
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and I just think there'll be new challenges,
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new benchmarks,
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new points to reach.
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So I don't think there'll ever be one where you can sit back and go,
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okay, job done,
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finished.
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That will never happen.
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There'll always be something,
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but along the way there'll be moments to sort of sit back,
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reflect and go, okay,
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that's one sort of...
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point of the journey.
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Now let's move on to the campus.
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S… Speaker 2 (AIA6)
And at the minute,
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because it's such a strange time for you to be in,
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I guess, traditionally in teaching you would wrap up in one school,
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then you'd go to the other and you'd jump in.
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What's the day in the life look like for you at the moment?
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S… Speaker 1 (AIA6)
So it's interesting when you say that because I've been at my school previously
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for quite a while.
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that was a difficult decision for me because traditionally right i'd
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never reviewed school mid -year and i almost felt like i was letting the school i
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was leaving down but it was huge opportunities yeah
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but um day to day now is lots of curriculum planning
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for example lots of communicating with our teachers quite a lot um
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so no two days are the same but in general we have lots of contact with our teachers
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that come in and we have a few
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as well given current situation me
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lots of parents doing lots of events trying to get out there trying to
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get some
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some interest in our school and get our name out there.
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I think when we first started a few months ago,
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we were kind of like,
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do people know who we are?
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Do they know what we are looking to do?
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And I don't think they knew the first part.
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We weren't sure who we were.
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So we really looked at events and getting ourselves out there
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and meeting new communities and really looking at where our outreach
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is.
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So of course we're in Maccourt.
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What are the other local areas?
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Where do we need to?
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sort of reach out to.
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I personally spend a lot of time in the local nurseries as well,
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building relationships with their staff and looking to build relationships
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with their naval colourful parents.
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So yeah,
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no two days are the same.
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Every day is very busy.
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Some days are academic.
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We've been to Manpool Library.
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made some nice connections there and obviously we'll be using that generally as a school just
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again to push in a lot of reading and really you know making a visit to a library
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a special time beyond our school library you know you talk a lot about reading
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and it's really amazing it's music to my ears because I love reading I'm really embedding that
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within my son and why do you think that's so important I think
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it is the key to all learning and I think that you can't be sort of
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also I suppose in line with our sort of approach to tech as well
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You can't beat a real book,
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real illustrations,
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real colour,
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real graphics.
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And,
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you know, especially those texts where,
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you know,
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you have your childhood favourites.
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I think there's a reason we've all got memories of our childhood favourite books.
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It's because they are so special,
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because that early exposure is that rich vocabulary,
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that diverse language.
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It stays,
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those repeated refrains,
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they stay because they're so special.
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And also it's that connection to that special time,
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probably with your parent,
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just before you go to sleep.
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That special five minutes after a hectic day,
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that is that magic in the day and that's what we will have at school every day and we'll also be
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encouraging that.
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You can't beat that,
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you really can't.
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It's also come to a point where children view reading as
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tablet based.
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it's our job to sort of bring books back and bring that enthusiasm because it won't just
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be there they don't already have that for some children they don't have for some they do but
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for not all so it's our job to sort of start to bring that back to them as well yeah absolutely
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teacher passions around reading books that we cover through the curriculum
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like the introduction of books in early years the novel study in primary
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that's going to be really important we have to really pick those but very carefully to try
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and instill not just the sort of what they'll bring to us in skill level and content
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but enjoyable because those are the moments where they're going i like
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reading yeah or
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I don't like reading.
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And that's what we need.
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And why and how it can reach it.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And I think what's really key as well is we'll be encouraging our parents to be reading role models
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at home as well.
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You know,
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not just share a book with your child,
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but also, what are you reading at the moment?
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What are you into at the moment?
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And likewise, you know,
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there's transition points in the day where the children see other staff,
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maybe in the lobby,
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maybe in the parent cafe,
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and they're reading,
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oh. So it all just pushes in on the value of it and that it is
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reading for pleasure as well.
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And they're different.
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to read.
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Yeah, 100 % and the different types of reading in cultures
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because my favourite childhood story might be completely,
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will definitely be completely different to an Emiratis childhood story and an Indian
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child. It's about celebrating that absolutely and giving that exposure
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so that the other students who aren't familiar with those texts.
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can enjoy them yeah and can understand why why is that your favorite then you know
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it's a really lovely discussion point as well yeah so on that because i'm going to write
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a piece on it for world literacy day i don't know what the piece will be but what
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is your we mentioned a few earlier but number one favorite
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childhood book
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I didn't read it but I just watched the film with my son at Easter.
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I just adore Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle Dog.
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And also I think for me...
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That's probably such an anchor in my child memory because my
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mum would always read it to me.
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So it's that special emotional connection to the text as well.
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And I think that's a lot for the little ones,
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you know, like you've got two,
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haven't you?
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And I bet you their memories will be,
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yes, it's the text,
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but it's also those special times that happened when you were exposed
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to it.
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So important,
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because I get to bedtime and I'm like,
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do you want a book?
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I want him to read,
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but I also want him to say no.
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But every day...
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I want sleep.
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I want some to sleep myself.
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But every day he wants a book,
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which is really good.
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We're going through the Mr.
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Men at the minute in order.
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So every day is like,
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which Mr.
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Men is it today?
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Oh, bless him.
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That's lovely.
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As annoying as it can be when you've had a long day.
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They're quiet to look.
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I am,
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I am, I am.
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Sadly,
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sadly,
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we all grow up to be adults and it will be that.
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And I don't want it to.
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They're reading their own independent texts.
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You know, they've got their own passions.
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It's Everywhere Bear.
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So I'd say we read that three times a week.
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I've not heard of this one.
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Everywhere Bear.
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I think I've encouraged this because I think I tell the story quite
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well. I'm just going to bring myself up for a minute there.
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Bring it to life.
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Better than others.
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And I think that's actually impacted the book.
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Yeah.
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So true.
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My enthusiasm for that particular book.
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Yeah.
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And it's quite,
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it tells the story of a bear that's a fast bear and gets lost.
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But there's a lot of rhythm to it.
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So it's enjoyable to listen to.
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You should be anticipating what you're going to say.
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Because you're remembering the rhyme to it.
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So I'd say we read that three times a week.
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What was your childhood favourite book?
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So the one that comes to memory the most is The Twits.
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I remember doing it in school.
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And it being a class reader.
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And the parents coming in and reading sections.
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I remember being just really loving it as well.
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I remember Stig of the Dump from Prime Minister.
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I loved
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Stig of the Dump.
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I loved all the Roald Dahl.
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Magic Finger sticks out in my mind.
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Hungry Caterpillar,
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which I've seen that you've got,
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is my childhood.
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Classic.
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Going on a bear hunt,
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another classic.
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Dear Zoo, I love Dear Zoo.
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Dear Zoo for like ECC.
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I love Dear Zoo.
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Let me get it.
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Do a reading.

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