Retrieval practice - Trailblazers

We use retrieval practice every day at Taddington to help us to remember more. Yesterday, for our new art topic, ‘Trailblazers’, Giraffes learnt about a number of black artists from the last couple of centuries. Children were given 1 artist to remember as we discussed them together as a class. Afterwards, they were given additional information about their artist and told they would need to teach the rest of the class about them at the start of today’s lesson… without notes. This caused the children to think carefully about strategies for remembering information. At the start of today’s lesson, the children were given 5 minutes to refresh their memories then they stood up and taught the rest of the class about the Trailblazer from memory. 











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