Branching Story day, fairground setting, untimed per the stimulus policy (extra — no English Language block on today's timetable). Taught T5.1, new paragraph at every shift (place, time, focus, mood); she identified the break point in a model paragraph unaided. 5-minute timed branch map produced three branches inside the time; the weak branch (food and games — same place, same time) was rebuilt into an enclosed stall path after one prompt. Wrote the ticket-box node in one go (2030 calendar dating the emptiness; dust and cobwebs as a non-sight sense), then re-laid it with four paragraph breaks, every one landing on the shift itself, unaided. Self-mended a sentence fragment ("You continue looking. When you see there's nothing.") while re-laying the page, unprompted. Her closing lines: wrote the first bit of my story; next is writing more.
Continue the fairground branch — the diary choice is offered and unresolved, so open there. Teach W1.2 properly: one named ride's sound, not a category (she gave "creaking metal" with no ride attached). Fortnightly timed handwritten outing next, lengthened to 30 minutes, on an unseen AQA prompt per the stimulus policy.
| Topic | Name | Change | Evidence recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| T5.1 | Gap → Developing | After teaching, chose the correct break line from three options unaided, then applied four paragraph breaks in the exit ticket, each landing on the shift itself (outside/inside, calendar time-shift, back out to the path). Untimed, own text; needs an unaided repeat on a fresh task before secure. | |
| W4.2 | Developing → Developing | Shift now marked on the page in untimed work — the break at 'You head back out to continue down the path' was chosen by her from three candidate sentences. | |
| W1.2 | Developing → Developing | 'the smell of dust and cobwebs' was a specific non-sight sense; the fairground sound stayed a category (creaking metal from the rides, no named ride) even after a prompt to narrow it. | |
| T1.1 | Developing → Developing | Starter: identified 'The lights flickered, the music stopped' as a comma splice immediately. Mended a sentence fragment in her own text unprompted while re-laying the page. No promotion — the bar is catching splices in her own 5-minute check. |