Wokingham Secondary Federation Common Inset Day Monday 25 February 2019
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Wokingham Secondary Federation Common Inset Day Monday 25 February 2019 Contents 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 - 2 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 3 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. 4 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 · 5 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 6 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. 7 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 8 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 9 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. 10 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.