I would just like to say thank you to the St Joseph school community for having me over the past 4 weeks as I completed my primary placement. It has been wonderful getting to know the students, particularly the students in 5/6, which I have had the pleasure of working with. I have gained a great insight into education and teaching practices and look forward to incorporating some of the wonderful strategies into my own teaching practice in the near future.  

During my placement I have implemented lesson plans as a requirement of my degree. One of these lessons involved engaging the students in multiplication games to build recall facts of multiplication quickly. The students played a game of ‘greater than’ in pairs and were required to quickly recall multiplication facts shown on two 10-sided dice. The player with the greater multiplied number won the right to move ahead in the game. As students played the game it was noticed how students were using known strategies and their knowledge of multiplication fact families to recall answers quicker and quicker.  

Ashley Martin