Wokingham Secondary Federation Common Inset Day Monday 25 February 2019
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Page Number Subject Venue 3 Art & Design and Technology London 4 Business Studies and Economics The Emmbrook School 5 Careers Head Office, Romans 6 7 Computing The Piggott School 8 Drama The Forest School 9 English St Crispin’s School 10 Geography The Bulmershe School 11 History Waingels College 12 13 Mathematics The Piggott School 14 Media and Film Studies The Forest School 15 MFL St Crispin’s School 16 17 Music The Holt School 18 Network Managers Keep Hatch IT Centre 19 PE Waingels College 20 21 Religious Studies The Piggott School 22 Science The Bulmershe School 23 SEND The Holt School 24 Social Studies, Psychology and The Bulmershe School Sociology 25 List of Contacts -
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Art & Design and Technology London The Design Museum, The National Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery
The purpose of this day is for Technology and Art Teachers to have the time to work in teams to explore curriculum enrichment opportunities on offer at either The Design Museum or The National Gallery / National Portrait Gallery. The venues chosen offer comprehensive educational packages that suit all Key Stages and all aspects of Art, Craft, Design and Technology.
Before the Inset, each departmental team will agree their own focus and objectives best suited to their own priorities.
8.15 – 8.30 Arrival
8.30 Coach departs The Piggott School 9.30 – 14.00 Staff to explore the Galleries and the educational opportunities they provide (Staff to be responsible for their own lunch arrangements) 14.05 Coach departs from Trafalgar Square venue 14.15 Pick up at the Design Museum 15.15 – 15.30 Anticipated return time to The Piggott School
Useful Links: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/teachers-and-schools https://www.npg.org.uk/learning/schools-and-colleges/art-photography-ks-3-5/ https://designmuseum.org/plan-your-visit
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Business Studies and Economics The Emmbrook School
8.20 – 8.50 Arrival and refreshments
8.50 – 9.50 GCSE 9-1 Assessment
Each school to bring student work. We will use the assessment criteria and mark scheme to agree on levels.
9.50 – 10.50 Careers and Business/Economics
A look at how Business and Economics can support career guidance through the curriculum. Support will be provided by Adviza.
10.50 – 11.20 Refreshments
11.20 – 12.20 Teach Meet
Each school to provide a 5 – 10 minute presentation on an effective aspect of Economics A-Level teaching
12.20 – 13.20 Stretch and Challenge/Enrichment The group will look at ideas for how to stretch and inspire our students.
13.20 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Support for low ability students This session will look at ideas for supporting our lower ability GCSE students.
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Careers The Holt School
9.30 Welcome and Introductions 9.45 - 10.25 Gatsby benchmarks – what does ‘good’ look like 10.25 – 10.45 Insights from the Enterprise Adviser Network, and ‘what do you need?’ – Leah De Silva, Volunteering Programme Manager, Social Impact & Innovation, CIPD https://www.cipd.co.uk/ 10.45 – 11.00 Refreshments 11.00 – 11.15 An employer’s perspective – Vanessa Foot, Romans Group Culture & Community Manager 11.15 – 12.30 Building sustainable relationships with business, with a focus on Gatsby Benchmarks 5 & 6 12.30 – 13.00 Current issues, networking and lunch
· The eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance · 1. A stable careers programme 2. Learning from career and labour market information 3. Addressing the needs of each pupil 4. Linking curriculum learning to careers 5. Encounters with employers and employees 6. Experiences of workplaces 7. Encounters with further and higher education 8. Personal guidance http://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career- guidance ·
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Computing The Piggott School
8.45 - 9.00 Welcome and refreshments
9.00 - 10.00 PRIMM teaching programming model Speaker: Tig Williams (CAS) will discuss the PRIMM teaching programming model, a programming teaching method advocated by Sue Sentence, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Education at Kings College London. Please bring your laptop with Python installed.
10.00 - 10.30 Addressing the gender imbalance in the field; NCSC’s CyberFirst competition. A speaker from The National Cyber Security Centre will promote the nationwide Cyberfirst competition for girls.
10.30 – 11.20 Teaching programming with the Turtle System https://www.turtle.ox.ac.uk/ Professor Peter Millican, University of Oxford or Teach Meet session A: Reflecting curriculum reform in KS3 After the recent upheaval of curriculum reform at KS4 and KS5, it is now time to discuss and compare the SoWs we implement at KS3. Does it reflect the changes at the top? How do we teach Computational Thinking? How do we ensure engagement in the subject and uptake of it at KS4?
11.20 – 11.40 Refreshments
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11.40 – 12.20 Collaborating with primary schools This will be an hour with a primary colleague, Fiona Greezer sharing primary and secondary curriculum provision, resources and best way forward for collaborative working.
What does your assessment grid look like? What marking and feedback loop do you use? How do you implement DIRT/ FIT at KS3? Please being SoWs and your resources / ideas to share.
12.20 – 13.00 Teaching programming with the Turtle System https://www.turtle.ox.ac.uk/ Professor Peter Millican, University of Oxford or Teach Meet Session B
KS4: Achieving the mythical 9 A session for schools to discuss what measures they use to push high achievers to convert the 8s to the 9s. We could look at LoR questions, mark schemes and any other resources, including possibly PiXL resources. Please do share your ideas
KS5: Exam boards and SoW
A session for schools to discuss what exam boards they use for KS5. We will look at how their experiences have been so far, discuss SoWs and difficulties with Projects, if any. We can consider what measures are used to increase uptake of the subject, especially in girls?
13.00 - 13.40 Lunch
13.40 –14.30 Physical computing with micro:bits Physical computing: Exciting activities using micro:bits including cybersecurity. Led by Reading University RPTs.
14.30 – 15.00 Work in school departmental groups, with time for reflection and action planning.
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Drama The Forest School
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome and introductions KS3 Assessment Criteria
9.30 – 10.00 Moderating GCSE practical and written work. Exemplar material will be shared.
10.00 – 10.45 Different ways of approaching and teaching Live Theatre review
10.45 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 12.00 How are departments incorporating digital theatre?
KS3 Assessment without Levels
12.00 – 12.45 Using Digital Technologies to support learning in drama
Stimuli for starting devised work
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.45 Schemes of Work at KS3
Practitioners for A Level
14.45 – 15.00 Reflection and next steps. Ideas for further support and collaboration
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English St Crispin’s School
8.30 – 9.00 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 -11.00 School presentations
Each school will present for around 15 minutes in a Teach Meet format
o The Holt Interleaving o The Piggott Differentiation o Emmbrook Thinking Hard Strategies o St Crispin’s Oracy and metacognition o Bulmershe Creative Writing / Talk Like an Expert / Higher Order Thinking / Growth Mindset o The Forest AQA Paper 2 Writing Skills – application of mark scheme o Waingels Revision strategies
11.00 -11.20 Refreshments
11.20 - 12.20 English teaching at Key Stage 2
With support from a primary colleague, the following topics will be covered:
o How writing is taught at KS2 o KS2 Expectations – matches and mismatches
12.20 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Teaching and Learning activities
A discussion and sharing of good practice on group teaching and learning activities
14.30 - 15.00 Reflection and action planning in school groups
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Geography The Bulmershe School
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.15 Welcome and introductions
9.15 – 10.30 Teach Meet
Each school will deliver an 8 minute presentation, each of which will provide a strategy, resource or tip based on effective differentiation strategies
10.30 – 10.50 Refreshments
10.50 – 12.00 The Non Examined Assessment (NEA) in KS5 Geography.
Steve Brace, Head of Education and Outdoor Learning, Royal Geographical Society, will be joining the group to deliver a lecture on this important topic. https://twitter.com/SteveBraceGeog
12.00 – 1.00 NEA Best Practice Group Sharej
Departments will be given time to look through resources provided by Steve Brace regarding NEA success. This will be followed by 30 minutes for sharing techniques and fieldwork venues for best NEA results. This will be Introduced and led by staff from Bulmershe School.
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Exam Board Resources
Departments will have the opportunity to share resources with other departments using the same examination resources. Staff are asked to bring resources with them to the day.
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History Waingels College
8.45 – 9.00 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 10.00 Session 1: Lizzy Hogarth from Colleton Primary school: Building links between Primary and Secondary curriculum
- The KS2 History Curriculum - How they approach the curriculum at their school - Some examples of our KS2 History planning and examples of children’s work - A discussion on what types of trips they go on to enhance our learning - Some feedback from the children about what topics they have enjoyed and what they would really like to find out about next - Questions
10.00 – 11.00 Session 2: Martin Payne from The British Museum:
The British Museum is working with Wokingham Borough Council on a new and exciting project; the British Museum Archaeological Research Centre (BM_ARC) currently under planning for the Shinfield area. The British Museum is keen to build links with local schools and will give a summary and overview of the BM_ARC project followed by some evaluation that we can feedback into the project: https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/bm_arc.aspx
11.00 – 11.20 Refreshments
11.20 – 13.15 Session 3: Edexcel GCSE Network Session run by Robin Bunce
Robin Bunce will deliver a network session, looking at the summer 2018 series and student exemplar answers to show some of the things to consider from how the series went.
13.15 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Session 4: Teach Meet
We will break into mixed school groups to discuss teaching and learning ideas around the theme of memory recall.
14.30 – 15.00 Session 5: Reflection and action planning
Time for schools to meet within their departments to plan and implement ideas from the day. 11
Mathematics The Piggott School
8.30 – 9.00 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome, introductions and housekeeping details
9.10 – 9.55 Simon Singh – The Top Top Set Project and the Parallel Maths Project
Plenary 1 This opening plenary will be supported by Tamoor Hussain, Head of Mathematics at The Bulmershe School.
10.00 – 11.00 Session 1 Delegates can opt for either
a) A Key Stage 2 to 3 Transition session led by Carolyn Hare, from Hawthorns Primary School and her colleague, another primary specialist PRIMARY TRANSITION or b) A session relating to Problem Solving/Reasoning at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, provided by the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP)
or c) An overview of Teaching for Mastery, explaining the ethos and impact of this style of teaching, provided by Jo Walker, Assistant Lead for the BBO Maths Hub
11.00 – 11.20 Refreshments
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11.20 – 12.20 Session 2 Delegates can opt for either
a) A GCSE-focused session provided by Rob Cackett from the Pearson Edexcel Maths team, offering feedback about the summer and November 2018 exam papers and some information about support for AO2 or b) A GCSE-focused session provided by David McEwan, Curriculum Manager for Maths at AQA 12.20 – 1.20 Plenary 2. An interactive workshop led by Jo Walker, exploring Teaching for Mastery techniques.
1.20 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.00 Session 3 Delegates can opt for either
a) Feedback from Rob Cackett of Pearson Edexcel about the new AS and A level Mathematics papers, Summer 2018
or b) A session provided by David McEwan from AQA focusing on AS and A level
or c) A repeat of the earlier session provided by the AMSP relating to Problem Solving/Reasoning at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5
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Media and Film The Forest School
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 10.00 Welcome and introductions
Successful strategies for teaching Media and Film, e.g. methods of tracking progress or raising aspirations. Rob Birks
Engaging students/differentiation Rob Birks
10.00 – 10.45 Applying theories in media responses or organisation of the course (e.g. structuring a curriculum map) Joanne Humphrey
10.45 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 12.00 Filming equipment (on a realistic budget!) Jamie Reynolds
Pre-production evidence for coursework Jamie Reynolds
12.00 – 12.45 Teaching close-study products (using AQA as an example) Amy Harvey
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.45 Revision methods for moving image texts Rob Birks
14.45 – 15.00 Further steps: INSET evaluation and ideas for additional support /collaboration All
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MFL St Crispin’s School
8.45 – 9.00 Arrival and registration
9.00 – 9.15 Presentation from Ardmore Travel, https://www.ardmore.travel/
9.15 – 9.30 A presentation about Quizlet https://quizlet.com/ from Matt Connor
9.30 – 10.40 A presentation from Joe Dale https://twitter.com/joedale including time for Q&A and at the end
10.40 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 11.50 Session 1. Please see below
11.50 – 12.40 Session 2. Please see below
12.40 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 13.50 A refresher of Classroom Activities (Matt Connor)
13.50 – 14.10 Thinking Hard (Ellie Fry)
14.10 – 14.20 Break
14.20 – 15.00 In school departmental groups, time for reflection and action planning
For sessions 1 and 2, staff will choose from two of the following:
1) Dan Collis from St Crispin’s to lead a session on Metacognition 2) Matt and Kathryn Potter from Bulmershe to lead a session on new 9-1 grading 3) Natalie from The Holt to lead a session on Memory and Recall 4) Teaching A Level Film, Literature & Culture – Lecturers from Reading University
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Music The Holt School
Berkshire Music Hub, on behalf of the Wokingham Secondary Federation, is pleased to present an exciting and motivational music course for secondary music specialists.
The course provides a unique opportunity to work with professional musicians and experienced workshop leaders to explore diverse and creative ways to motivate pupils in the classroom. Areas of focus have been selected following requests and suggestions from members of the teaching community.
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.30 Introductory performance to open the day by The Hawthorns Primary School Choir led by Mel Hopkin
9.30 – 11.00 Kick Start Your Choir, led by Christopher Hann, Artistic Director of Berkshire County Youth Choirs.
Chris will lead delegates through a number of ideas to enthuse and engage young singers transitioning from KS2 to KS3, focusing on repertoire and routes into part singing, vocal warm ups and motivating boys (particularly those with changing voices).
11.00 – 11.30 Refreshments
11.30 – 12.30 Scaffolding Year 10 Composition led by Anna Lang and Wendy Harvey, Senior Leaders with the Berkshire Music Hub.
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Anna and Wendy will explore the steps and techniques needed to help pupils move from the safety of KS3 group work to become confident, independent composers and prepare them for composing as individuals at GCSE.
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 The Creative Classroom. Experiments in exploring ideas to create music with professional creative workshop leader, Luke Crookes.
Luke will lead an aural, hands-on, practical approach to teaching composition at KS3 and 4, helping pupils to explore and respond musically and creatively to a range of stimuli. He will guide delegates through the process of developing initial ideas imaginatively and empowering pupils through developing open mindsets. This aims to help teachers become more confident at guiding pupils through the independent creative process (ready to respond musically to future composition briefs where relevant).
The workshop leaders for this event have been carefully selected for their breadth of musical direction, classroom experience and creative workshop leadership. Together, they bring a wide range of skills to help explore different tools and techniques that can be used to motivate and inspire young musicians in the classroom. www.berkshiremaestros.org.uk/CreativeClassroom
What you will need All materials and resources will be provided but you should bring your own preferred instrument and, if you have one, an iPad with GarageBand app.
www.berkshiremaestros.org.uk © Berkshire Maestros 2018 Leaflet ref: TCC 25022018 SC
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Network Managers Keep Hatch IT Centre
9.00 – 9.30 Arrival and refreshments
9.30 – 9.40 Welcome and introductions
9.40 – 10.40 Technical update led by Mark Harris and colleagues from RM Education: Recent and planned developments in the RM core network and services, usage trends, security issues, DDoS, etc. Q and A.
10.40 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 11.30 Update led by Simon Ross of Think IT: Microsoft licensing – Changes/current direction and the implications for schools (Primary technical colleagues may also be invited to this part of the session)
11.30 – 12.30 Where are you with the cloud? Led by Kathy Smedley (Wokingham ICT Team): Microsoft Office 365, Teams, etc Google G Suite, Google Classroom, etc
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch
13.15 – 14.00 Current issues: BETT Show feedback, GDPR, BYOD, Schools MIS, etc
14.00 – 15.00 Further discussion, informal networking and close
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PE Waingels College
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome and introductions Sport and PE at Grazeley Primary School A session facilitated by Marianne Mullen from the school
9.40 – 11.40 Option 1: Participants will have the choice of one of the following:
a) Pearson – GCSE: Feedback and guidance
b) OCR – National and Technicals: Introduction to the courses and strategies to support delivery
c) AQA – A-level: PE update, resources and enhanced result analysis tool
Option 2: Participants will have the choice of one of the following
a} Reading Athletics Club – a practical demonstration on how to teach and show skills in isolation for GCSE & A-level
b} Badminton England – a practical demonstration on how to teach and show skills in isolation and phases of play for GCSE & A-level
Option 3:
OCR A-Level Principal Moderator who will provide an understanding of the grade boundaries, standardisation of marks and EAPI. This will be followed by mock assessments in the afternoon.
12.00 – 12.30 Pupil Progress – How to record and monitor progress
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Either a continuation of option 3 or action planning in school departmental groups.
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RE The Piggott School
8.45 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 10.15 Welcomes and introductions, followed by
Session One: R.E. Teaching Fayre
An opportunity to meet with key R.E. contributors including Love for Life, members of Wokingham SACRE, RE Inspired and others. 10.15 – 11.00 Session Two: Teaching R.E. to students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
A presentation from Julie Easton on how to successfully teach RE to students with ASD. She will present findings from her studies with the Farmington Institute and provide helpful advice to take back to your classrooms. 11.00 – 11.20 Refreshments
11.20- 12.20 Session Three: Teach Meet.
Attendees will present a thought/resource/reflection/discussion point related to the teaching of Religious Education. A vote will be taken for the best contributions, with exciting prizes being available for first, second and third places! 12.20 - 13.20 Session Four: Creativity in the RE classroom
There can be lots of misconceptions about R.E. and engaging students in the subject can be difficult at times. Debbie Marris, teacher of RE and Coordinator of SIAMS will offer some practical and useful ideas to promote creativity in the R.E. classroom to help enthuse students and capture their attention! 13.20 - 14.00 Lunch
An opportunity to reflect on the sessions, to build on contacts within the Wokingham Federation and to consider ideas for promoting a Secondary R.E. Teacher’s Network.
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14.00 - 14.40 Session Five: An update on the political landscape and R.E.
The provision of Religious Education is an issue that is prevalent in the media and politics at the moment. Michaela Watters, Head of R.E. and member of Wokingham SACRE will update the group on the political landscape and her contributions to an APPG in parliament on the current situation and the future outlook of the subject. 14.40 - 15.00 Closing remarks, reflections and the results of the vote
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Science The Bulmershe School
8.45 – 9.00 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.15 Welcomes and introductions
9.15 – 10.30 Teach Meet
Each school will deliver an 8 minute presentation, each of which will provide a strategy, resource or tip based on effective differentiation strategies
10.30 – 10.50 Refreshments
10.50 – 11.15 Robot Avatars AV1 Rose Taylor
11.15 – 13.00 Staff will participate in one or more of the following sessions:
o Feedback from Spring Term 1 peer to peer review group o Meetings of Heads of Biology, Chemistry, Physics (including required practical demonstrations or exciting practicals) o Information/ ideas about alternative courses at Level 3 and Level 2 e.g. BTECs, Entry level etc. o Experimental work – sharing of techniques and best practice o Sharing of demonstrations of IT resources highlighting what each school uses and how.
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.40 Work in clusters of schools sharing the same exam board for KS4. Resources and teaching strategies used will be shared.
14.40 – 15.00 Reflection and action planning in school departmental groups
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SEND The Holt School
The focus for the day is curriculum access. The workshops will explore how the school environment, our interactions with students and the curriculum offered can impact upon student engagement and motivation.
8.45 – 9.00 Arrival, welcomes and refreshments
9.00 – 10.00 Assist: Sensory Processing
10.00 – 10.15 Break
10.15 – 11. 30 CAMHS: Resilience Training Workshop Part 1
11.30 – 12.00 Refreshments
12.00 – 13.30 CAMHS: Resilience Training Part 2
13.30 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.15 Teach meet
Each school will present their KS4 curriculum package – what works, who runs it, timings etc. It will be really beneficial to hear about how each school differentiates their curriculum for the lowest ability students and what alternative subjects/ qualifications are offered in addition to the standard curriculum. This will be a good opportunity to share good practice and discuss ideas.
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Social Sciences, Psychology and Sociology The Bulmershe School
8.45 – 9.00 Arrival and refreshments
9.00 – 9.15 Welcomes and introductions
9.15 – 10.30 Teach Meet
Each school will deliver an 8 minute presentation, each of which will provide a strategy, resource or tip based on effective differentiation strategies
10.30 – 11.00 Refreshments
11.00 – 12.00 ‘20 ways to working with text in Psychology and Sociology’
12.00 – 13.00 Engaging ways to teach research methods in Psychology and Sociology
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.40 A sharing of resources that are used in Key Stage 4
14.40 – 15.00 Reflection and action planning in school departmental groups
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Contacts
Subject Lead person(s) email address
Art and Technology Karen Thornton [email protected] Art and Design
Business Studies and Craig Johnson [email protected] Economics
Careers Sharon Hart [email protected]
Computing Pat Bhattacharya [email protected]
Drama Marianne Trowbridge Mtrowbridge@forest.academy
English Lydia Darke [email protected]
Geography David Tomola [email protected]
History Emma Windiate [email protected]
Mathematics Sue Forrest [email protected]
Media Rob Birks [email protected]
MFL Emma Jackson [email protected]
Music Andrew Grey [email protected]
Network Managers David Congdon [email protected]
PE Reahgan Quartermaine [email protected]
Psychology and Sociology (and Natalia Jigounova [email protected] Social Studies)
RE Michaela Watters [email protected]
Science Gavin Burrows [email protected]
SEND Vicky Martin [email protected]
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