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Innovation,
Implementation and Results
After
teaching Reception/Year One children for 26 years in rural,
country & city schools I retired from teaching in 1996.
During the next year I missed my involvement with young
children and spent quite a bit of time comtemplating the
ways in which children learn.
I
began to put pen to paper and using Basil, a very friendly
black & white border collie who lived next door and
Ginger my sister's cat, I started writing a very simple
reading scheme, initially for children with learning difficulties.
When I asked a friend to trial the scheme, she used it successfully
for her entire Reception class.
I
returned to teaching in the Catholic system in 1998 and
my Principal, Mr. Mark Fitzpatrick, allowed me to use the
scheme (Basil & Ginger) to teach my Reception/Year One
class. I was thrilled with the results attained and had
extremely positive feedback from parents. This was at St.
Michael's School in Woomera, where I was teaching 75% American
children. I continued to use the reading scheme with every
class until my recent retirement from St. Teresa's Primary
School in Brighton.
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