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INSET slides - the new primary curriculum
- Description:
- These INSET slides should be read alongside the summary of the new primary curriculum featured above. Use the two in conjunction to keep staff and governors informed of the curriculum proposals.
- Submitted On:
- 22/04/2010
Our successful learning model
- Description:
- The children at Melcombe are able to articulate how best they learn and understand and can discuss the school's model for learning to each other and to outside visitors to the school. Click here to see more...
- Submitted On:
- 04/05/2010
Chatterbox Criteria
- Description:
- At Melcombe Primary School children are given opportunity to ‘Chatterbox’ about their learning. These are the criteria that the children use for this activity..
- Submitted On:
- 04/05/2010
Achievement reports
- Description:
- Self-assessment is central to the school's practices. Children need to have total ownership of their learning and need to be able to assess what they have learnt and what they need to do next. Click here for examples of achievement reports...
- Submitted On:
- 04/05/2010
Learning Bags
- Description:
- In KS2 the children at Melcombe individually bag their most important learning for the week and these weekly reviews of learning are then put in their learning journal so that children are building up a record of their key learning. To see the learning bags...
- Submitted On:
- 04/05/2010
Key Questions
- Description:
- Each topic and unit of work in maths and literacy begins with a Key Question which the children will answer at the end of the unit of work. Children are then set the challenge of raising a range of questions they will need to ask in order to answer the key questions.
- Submitted On:
- 04/05/2010
Primary File
- Description:
- How ready are you for the new primary National Curriculum? The documents are out; the website is up. Although there might be some uncertainty as to the effect the general election will have on the government’s plans, at the moment we are primed for a major change.
- Submitted On:
- 25/05/2010
Sport in the urban school
- Description:
- Not all schools have playing fields or wonderful sports halls. Crispin Andrews visits a Victorian London primary school which has made the best of their fenced in playground.
- Submitted On:
- 25/05/2010
System leadership for system reform
- Description:
- Professor David Hopkins’ series on school improvement ends with a look at the way reform is intrinsically linked with leadership style.
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
Teachers of hate?
- Description:
- Police and prison officers are barred from membership of the racist British National Party, but the ban won’t be extended to teachers. Has the government made the right decision?
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
The good, the bad and the uninspiring
- Description:
- As the general election looms, Joell Mayoh looks at the three main parties’ education manifestos – and the responses to them from teachers’ leaders.
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
Watch this space
- Description:
- In the fifth of their series of articles, Nick Austin and Richard Churches focus on coaching tools which use the physical space of a room to reinforce key messages.
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
What difference does it make?
- Description:
- Schools must be certain that their investment in training and development for teachers improves outcomes for their pupils – but how? Sara Bubb and Peter Earley investigate.
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
Who needs a licence?
- Description:
- Teachers may soon be barred from doing their jobs without a new ‘License to Practise’. Keith Bartley of the General Teaching Council examines the implications.
- Submitted On:
- 26/05/2010
