5th Annual Conf. | Narrowing the gap Victoria Park Primary Academy
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1) The document discusses an approach to narrowing educational gaps through a "whole education" approach at a school with 440 pupils from 42 languages and 50% receiving free school meals. 2) Key aspects of the school's approach include focusing on learner engagement through interests-driven learning challenges, immersive learning experiences, and developing thinking tools. 3) The school has achieved strong pupil progress results and high rankings through their creative, socially-enterprising curriculum that emphasizes principles like letting learning rest in peace and adding ice (immersion, challenge, and enterprise).
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5th Annual Conf. | Narrowing the gap Victoria Park Primary Academy
- 1. Narrowing the Gap through a Whole Education approach #EdWorthHaving | 18.11.14 Andrew Morrish Chief Executive
- 2. “Please Sir, can we let RIP now?”
- 4. ‘Jeepers, don’t they do any learning in that school?’ Dara O’Briain, TES Awards
- 5. 440 pupils 42 languages 50% FSM 85% EAL
- 10. RoL Rankings 100 1
- 11. Pupil Progress | 2 Whole Levels 2013 100% 100% 2012 95% 100% 2011 98% 94%
- 14. Oh for **** sake Kevin! Awaken the power of creativity
- 15. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect alone, but by the ability to play Carl Jung
- 16. Why can’t our school be like DISNEYLAND?
- 18. Cognitively undemanding Face-to-face conversations Telephone conversation Demonstrating experiments Writing a standardised test BICS CALP Cognitively demanding Context embedded Source: Cummins Framework Context reduced
- 19. Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2013, Vol 29, No.4
- 23. Let R I P Learning !
- 34. An all together © THRILLS-BASED curriculum
- 35. Now Independent Creative Enterprise Real
- 36. Children’s interests Thinking tools Immersion versions Learning challenges Real, Regional, Relevant N I C E R
- 37. CONFUSION CLARITY 1. Concept 2. Conflict 3. Construct 4. Consider 1 JOBS 2 3 4 The PIT BLOOM
- 41. Learner engagement Dress up as a knight Make proper pizza Go back in time Ride on a donkey Vici 50
- 49. The more we know about something, the more imaginative we can be about it.
- 56. #SocEnt SE1 Ideas Generation SE2 Market Research SE3 Communication SE4 Negotiation SE5 Working as a team SE6 Perseverance SE7 Profit SE8 People SE9 Planet
- 59. Learning Challenge Outcome of Challenge Reflection and Metalearning
- 60. Ballot Street Spice @TheSpiceAcademy Creators of Ballot Street Spice, a Social Enterprise based @VicParkAcademy. We bring communities together to produce spice blends that create opportunity. Ballot Street, Smethwick, UK
- 64. Teacher as coach CAF FIP C&S APC AGO OPV PMI
- 67. blp
- 69. Key Principles Let RIP! Just add ICE Fluent in Learnish Chuck ‘em in the Pit!
- 70. “The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.” Seth Godin
- 71. Learning by Barrie Wade Today I learned how a spider wraps its silk around a fly, makes the web bounce with urgent tread – forward, wrap and back forward, wrap and back. I watched until the fly was glued, the spider still, the web less taut.
- 72. Today I learned the ringdove’s call, like Morse code from our rooftop, cuk-cuk-coo-two short, one long. He kept it up for ten neck-jerking minutes cuk-cuk-coo, then dipped away without a backward glance.
- 73. Today I learned that daisies smell like stale milk. I picked one, crushed its hairy stalk between my fingers and the fatty stink lingered rancid on my skin.
- 74. Today I learned that cats have tongues like sandpaper. This tabby gave me friendly licks that rasped my fingers, sent the shivers spiralling around my spine.
- 75. Today I would have learned a lot more but I had to go to school.
- 76. Andrew Morrish Chief Executive Victoria Academies @AndrewDMorrish www.victoriaacademiestrust.org.uk
Editor's Notes
- Fear not. Change need not be daunting. None of us like change. “You go first…”
- Here is the killer opening question. If we ran Disneyland like schools for EAL learners we’d sit them outside on a little roundabout.
- What EAL Learners deserve – get to cog demanding and context embedded. Therefore need to ask the obvious killer question
- Prof of Educational Psychology & Educational Technology at Michigan State University. Based on critical review of 15 international frameworks Response to globalisation and digitalisation: TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNING This is why we need 21c learning (clip on next slide)