Juggling Jargon

Schools’ language can be baffling. Most desire a language of their own – Many of our London primos use a combination of their own; the local authorities and titbits from a variety of courses. With pride they speak of; they display; share and impart buzz terms and phrases, in the hope that the children grasp sooner, the necessary learning. Laminated, bold displays adorn each classroom: each notice peering at you as if to enter your brain telepathically. One of the latest school trends is to uniformly display educationalists’ buzz words and phrases. Classroom walls, windows and ceilings are now besieged by them, in place of children’s work. The idea is these spangled, carefully-laminated Literacy terms support children’s writing. Emphasis clauses, onomatopoeia, WOW words; sentence openers; time connectives and subordinators are but a few of the groups of grammatical terms surrounding our youngsters as they learn. Maths (a struggle for many) boast terms such as: Chunking Method; Bus Stop Method; Grid Method; Place Value: Hanging Man; Decomposition; Fizz-Buzz; RUCSAC and all sorts of terms are familiar to children as they develop maths skills through games and the latest calculation strategies. A lot of the maths ideas used in primary education, today, have been very beneficial to so many children: better helping them to easily grasp some much older methods that did not always show, for example, the relationship between operations and the value of each digit in a number. In the same regard literacy resources today consolidate the high level of vocabulary and textual composition children encounter in the vast array of books far more available than they ever were, twenty or thirty years ago. Juggled any jargon recently?