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Wokingham Secondary Federation Common Inset Day Monday 20 February 2017 Wokingham Secondary Federation Common Inset Day Monday 20 February 2017 1 Contents Page Number Subject Venue 3 Art and Design Reading Museum and University 4 Business Studies and Economics The Piggott School 5 Computing St Crispin’s School 6 Drama The Emmbrook School 7 English Waingels College 9 Geography The Piggott School 10 History The Holt School 11 Librarians The Holt School 12 Maths The Holt School 13 MFL The Piggott School 14 Music Berkshire Maestros 15 Network Managers Microsoft 16 PE Waingels College 17 Religious Studies Waingels College 18 Science Waingels College 20 SEN for SENCOs and TAs St Crispin’s School 22 Senior Leaders The Holt School 23 Social Sciences The Holt School 24 List of Contacts - 2 Art & Design Reading Museum and University 9.30-11.00 Meet at Reading Museum http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/ Viewing of the current Art at the Museum, including paintings not on display Introduction to the Loan Service 11.00-11.30 Transfer to Reading University London Road Art & Design Department http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/visit-us.aspx 11.30-12.00 Coffee and cakes 12.00-12.30 The current Artist in Residence will present and discuss her MA work on Fine Art, specialising in Ceramics. 12.30-1.00 How could a PGCE student enrich your department? Please bring examples you are willing to share. Your trainees will be on hand to help! 1.00-2.00 Ceramics Workshop To celebrate the next 90 years of Reading University, the Institute of Education Art Department is creating a collaborative ceramic based installation to fill the cloisters at the London Road campus. We have been invited to launch the celebration and will be producing the first pieces for the installation. 3 Business Studies and Economics The Piggott School Croissants and pastries will be available in the canteen from 8.15, with an opportunity for networking. The first formal session will begin at 9.00. We will be joined in the morning by a representative from AQA who will discuss both GCSE and A level Business and after lunch by Colin Leith from Edexcel who will be sharing his knowledge of BTEC Levels 2 and 3. We will start off with all of us focusing on GCSE Business and A-Level Business then split into two rooms, with one working on BTEC Level 3 Business and one on A-Level Economics. The areas are: · Grading for the new 9-1 GCSEs · Developing grade descriptors for the new 9-1 GCSEs · Resources for the new 9-1 GCSEs · Advice on marking for the new linear A-Levels (Business and Economics) · Strategies to prepare pupils for the new linear A-Levels (Business and Economics) · Resources for the new linear A-Levels (Business and Economics) · Assessment for the new BTEC Level 3 · Exemplar assignments/answers for the new BTEC Level 3 · Resources for the new BTEC Level 3 4 Computing St Crispin’s School 8.30 – 8.45 Welcome and introduction 8.45 – 10.45 Computational Thinking – Presentation by CAS 10.45 – 11.00 Coffee Break 11.15 – 12.15 Use of One Note in teaching – presented by Mike Elward 12.15 - 12.45 Lunch Break 12.45 – 14.15 Implementation of computational thinking session. *Please bring department resources to work with. For example, Scheme of Work and associated lessons. 14.15 – 14.20 Plenary session and home! 5 Drama The Emmbrook School 08.30 – 09.00 Welcome / Tea and coffee 09.00 – 09.45 Life After Levels Sharing current practice/resources Sharing any teething problems Looking at linking student achievement to gauging student progress 09.45 – 11.15 Creating effective devised work* KS4 + KS5 Stimulus ideas Methodology How to ensure students record effectively 11.15 – 11.30 Break 11.30 – 12.00 Dealing with text** Monologues and duologues for GCSE Best practice for exploring texts with students 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch, followed by departmental discussions on learning from the morning. * Each department to come to the session with one idea/method that has worked well and that they are prepared to share and explore ** Each department to bring a selection of monologues and duologues to share and two/three tips and exercises for exploring texts with students 6 English Waingels College The programme for the day has been put together with a few concerns in mind that are of primary concern for English Departments at the moment: 1. The changes to assessment at Key Stage 2 and the subsequent ‘Life without levels’ 2. New specifications, marking and assessment 3. New specifications, new skills we have to teach Additionally, the ideas we cover in the day are broadly designed to help us target these new requirements at lower ability, disadvantaged or SEN students. Actions for now: - There is no need to let us know in advance which session you wish to attend in each time slot, there will be a chance to sign up for them on the day. - Please meet on the Yellow Zone Forum Stairs (large stairs when you immediately enter the zone) and the plan for the day will be outlined from there. - There may be a chance, following presentations from the exam board, for us to compare students’ work across schools. It would be worth bringing along a small selection of examples. Cake! A selection of prizes have been donated by Educational companies, which we will be raffling off at the end of the day. If you have some spare time over the half term break to bake some cakes, snacks or savories, then please do bring them along – you will be rewarded with more raffle tickets, and therefore more chances to win! Many thanks for your support, we look forward to welcoming you here at Waingels. Charlotte Bishop, Head of English, Waingels Academy [email protected] 7 8.30-8.45 8.45 – 10 10-10.15 Session 1 Session 2 12.45 1 – 1.45 10.15- 11.30 11.30 – 12.45 Introduction, Year 7 – Coffee A: Critical A: Teaching Coffee and 1 – 1.15 welcome and Where are break Approaches to unseen poetry Cake (Optional) the thinking they coming Literary Texts Exam Pro behind the from? Led by: Dr Mary CAKE AQA day Information Led by: Dr Morrissey RAFFLE! information and examples Madeline Davies University of session (for Led by: from Primary University of Reading those who Charlotte leads about Reading want to Bishop the new KS2 attend) led curriculum and B: Mark scheme B: Mark scheme by John from assessment engagement engagement AQA GCSE English GCSE English Led by: Literature AQA Language AQA 1.15 – 1.40 Caroline Norris National Headteacher, Led by: Sarah Led by David Literacy The Collaton White Baker Trust: What Primary School help and If time As before, please support is afterwards, we bring along any available for can do some examples of work narrowing cross-School if possible. the gap? Standardisation of GCSE Scripts so *There may be a please bring third optional 1.40-1.45 along some session in this Close of day example work for block, led by and thanks – the new Sarah White from Charlotte Specifications to AQA on A Level Bishop compare English with AQA, marking, if but this is not yet possible. confirmed. 8 Geography The Piggott School 8.15 – 9.00 Registration and breakfast 9.00 – 11.30 OCR/AQA reps to support planning for fieldwork (KS4+KS5) and delivery of new specs 11.30 - 11.45 Break 11.45 – 13.30 Department planning – opportunity to share resources with other schools 13.30 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 Finish (venue will be available until 4pm if schools wish to stay and continue planning) 9 History The Holt School 9.00 - 10.15 Session 1 Adapting KS3 in light of changes to GCSE and A level Is there an orthodoxy to be changed regarding how Key Stage 3 is divided up and taught chronologically? How can we effectively teach breadth at Key stage 3? Making further use of core concepts at Key stage 3 10.15 - 10.30 Reflection Discussion within own departments to reflect on and identify changes they wish to make to GCSE. 10.30 - 10.50 Break 10.50 - 12.15 Session 2 Flipped Learning What is flipped learning? What different ways can ‘flipped learning’ be used in? The learning cycle of History and applications for classwork and revision The Harkness method 12.15 - 12.30 Reflection Discussion within departments regarding application of ideas gained from the session to their own departments. 12.30 - 12.45 Break 12.45 - 14.00 Session 3 Learning Workshop Departments break into small groups each with an envoy from one department. Each envoy explains what ideas their department is implementing to tackle the new GCSE and A level. At the end departments reconvene to reflect and make plans for future improvement. 10 Librarians The Holt School 9.00 - 9:30 Tea / coffee and welcome 9:30 – 10:30 Information skills for the 21st century 10:30 - 11:00 Tea and cake 11:00 - 12:30 Latest ideas and resources 12:30 – 13.00 Lunch 13.00 – 14.00 Best practice - sharing and discussion 11 Maths The Holt School Organisers: Katy Prince (St Crispin’s) and Frank Howarth (The Holt) In association with: Timings Sign in and coffee in hall 8:30-9:00 9:00-9:45 Welcome and plan for the day: Katy and Frank – Hall Key notes speaker – Ben Sparks - 'Moving Maths' Options A B C D E Session 1: Sarah Flynn – Ken Chamberlain – Jeff Trim – FMSP – Pietro Tozzi – N/A 9:45-10:40 AQA – changes FMSP – Large data sets Mechanics in the Edexcel – GCSE – to A-level for the new A-level new A-level problem solving maths (Please bring personal ideas – IT room laptops) Session 2: Sarah Flynn – Cath Moore – Bernadette Will Hornby – OCR Liz Berrimann– 10:40-11:35 AQA – changes FMSP/MEI – Statistics: Cherowbrier – – A-level problem Casio – to A-level Hypothesis testing in AQA – solving and proof Introduction to maths the new AS and A-level Investigative graphical maths at KS3
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