Wokingham Secondary Federation Teachers Conference Day 28Th February 2014
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schools supporting schools Wokingham Secondary Federation Teachers Conference Day 28th February 2014 1 Conference Venues Subject Venue Conference Lead Page : Art The Piggott School Brian Murphy 3 Business Studies Wellington College Mogford, Alex 4 Careers Leads The Forest School Carol Ryall 5 Drama The Holt School Susie Ferguson 6 English University of Reading Caroline Crolla 7 Geography Wellington College John Kinniburgh 9 History Waingels College Emma Windiate 11 ICT The Piggott School Adam Hamflett 12 Librarians The Emmbrook School Barbara Band 15 Maths Thales Mark Wade 16 MFL The Piggott School Matt Connors 17 Music University of Reading James Garnett 18 Network Managers The Forest School Ali Bovis 19 PE Waingels College Reahgan Quartermaine 20 Psychology & Sociology The Holt School Mira Dakovic 21 Religious Studies Waingels College Stephen Vegh 22 School Business Managers Wellington College Janet Perry 23 Science The Holt School Phillipa Dunn 24 SENCOs & TAs The Bulmershe School Jill Maher 28 Senior Leaders The Holt School Anne Kennedy 29 Technology The Forest School Chris Elsey 31 Conference for Art and Design Teachers Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum Conference Lead Brian Murphy Focus of the Day - Inspiration for Teachers 9.am Leave from The Piggott School 10.30 Arrive at the Victoria and Albert Museum Coffee 11.00 - 12.00 Talk and Tour 12.00 - 2.30 Tour museum independently or in groups and lunch. 2.30 Leave 4.00 Arrive at The Piggott School 3 Conference for Business Studies and Economics Teachers Venue: Wellington College Duke’s Ride, Crowthorne, Berkshire, RG457PU Conference Lead - Alex Mogford 8:45 – 9 am – Welcome coffee Session 1– Using Effective and Efficient Resources in Economics and Business This session will give us a chance to explore resources that we find useful and effective in the Economics classroom and think about how we might be more efficient in our use of resources. This would be an excellent opportunity to share resources. 10:15 – 10:45am – Break Session 2 – What makes an outstanding lesson in Economics or Business? A chance to have an open and detailed discussion about what we think makes an outstanding lesson in Economics. A great opportunity for us to learn from each and share our best ideas. The purpose here is to be open and honest, I hope we won’t just recite Ofsted criteria but fully explore what, in our experience, constitutes excellence in an economics or business lesson. 12:45 – 1:30pm Lunch Session 3 – Using Harkness and debate in Economics and Business Harkness lessons are pupil-centred and encourage exploration and debate. They seem a perfect fit for economics and Business. However, they can be a little daunting and they can go wrong. A chance for us to explore the purpose of Harkness; how it fits into economics; and learn from the many mistakes that I have made using Harkness. Session 4 – How do you motivate students of Business Studies? One of the biggest problems I encounter in Business studies is keeping the interest and focus of the pu- pils from one lesson to the next. For a subject that should be so applicable to their lives I find that too often I am getting bogged down in content and/or examination technique and lose the interest of my pupils. Careers Leads Conference Meeting Statutory Responsibilities Venue: The Forest School – Enterprise Hub Robinhood lane, Winnershe, Wokingham, G415NE Conference Lead: Carol Ryall Focus of the Day: How do we meet Ofsted’s CIAG requirements? 9.00 Coffee & Registration 9.30 Ofsted/DfE CIAG requirements – an overview of where we are now 10.30 Investors in Careers – meeting the quality standard in your school 11.30 Coffee 11.45 An introduction to Adviza services including a trial of Morrisby psychometric testing– a valuable tool for parents and students. Details of lesson plans and games available, along with the introduction of a new careers qualification. 13.00 Lunch End 5 Conference for Drama Teachers Venue: The Holt School Holt lane, Wokingham RG411EE Conference Lead - Susie Ferguson introducing a wider range of directorial approaches for GCSE and A Level, Delegates need appropriate clothes for practical work for the Drama session . They may also wish to bring smartphones or tablets . 8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9-10.15 Practical session: Kneehigh 10.15-10.30 Coffee 10.30-11.00 Practical session: Kneehigh cont’d 11.00-12.30 Practical session: Melly Still and Katie Mitchell 12.30-1.30 Lunch & informal discussion 1.30 GCSE Drama: Reflection and sharing good practice for the written and practical elements. Please bring schemes of work and other resources that you are willing to share. 3.00 End 6 Conference for English Teachers Venue: University of Reading Institute of Education, London Road Campus, 4 Redlands Road, Reading (for Sat Navs use RG1 5AQ) Building L22 Room GO3 Conference Lead - Caroline Crolla Focus of the Day “Reinvigorate English” 8.30 Coffee & Registration. 9.00 Keynote Reinvigorate KS3 - Andrew McCallum, (English & Media Centre) Discuss ways of enhancing our lively and challenging curriculum to include existing core elements with new emphasis on aspects of gram- mar, vocabulary, Standard English, formal debating, author study and world literature in English. 10.00 Workshops, A, C, D, E,G, 11.00 Coffee 11.30 Workshops A,B,C D, E,G, 12.30 Lunch 1.15 Workshops A, B, C, E, F, 2.15 Department time 3.15 Depart 7 Workshop A Creative Writing - Simon Wrigley Simon Wrigley was chair of NATE 2004-6. He was English adviser in Bedfordshire 1994-2003 and Buckinghamshire 2004-2013. He is now Outreach Director for NATE's writing project: nwp.org.uk. This practical workshop shares some of the NWP findings by giving teachers the chance to write, and to reflect on the writing process. We will discuss what happens in classrooms where teachers write alongside students - and where students take greater ownership of their writing. Workshop B What the Levels look like—Nici Hunt , The Holt School , WBC English AST This is a Key Stage 3 levelling activity. The first workshop will explore levels 3-5 and the second workshop levels 6-8. Please can delegates attending each workshop provide at least 5 pieces of work to reflect the range of levels. These workshops will be a collaborative exercise and will seek to create exemplar materi- als that can be photocopied and distributed to schools. Workshop C An Introduction to Cambridge English and English Literature IGCSE Julia Turkington, Head of English at the Abbey School Cambridge IGCSE English Literature examiner and IB examiner. Workshop D Reading for life – Rosemary Woodman , Berkshire Education Library Service The workshops will look at the multiple advantages of reading for pleasure, implementing change within a school and new fiction titles to inspire reading. The Education Library Service will exhibit their new col- lection of books for Years 7 & 8, and a range of fiction titles for years 9+ . Workshop E Digital Literacy in the English classroom – Richard Long, English AST - Newlands Participants will explore, discuss and be encouraged to understand why and how to incorporate digital literacy into the English class and find ways to draw on and develop pupils’ existing digital skills. Workshop F Make Grammar and Punctuation fun! Ann Groves HoD English & Tracy Edwards, The Bulmershe School The workshop will introduce a range of strategies from Blind Date to Word Mate - tried and tested ways to teach the grammar of English language. Workshop G Using Short stories at KS3 - Andrew McCallum, English & Media Centre Practical and active approaches to using short stories in the English classroom to encourage engagement and enjoyment of texts. 8 Duke's Ride, Crowthorne, West Berkshire RG45 7PU Conference for Geography Teachers Venue: Wellington College Duke’s Ride, Crowthorne, West Berkshire RG457PU Conference Lead - John Kinniburgh, Head of Geography John Kinniburgh is the Head of Geography at Wellington College and a proponent of the use and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in education. He previously taught Geography (and was Faculty Head) at The King’s School in Sydney, Australia, where he first introduced GIS in 1998. John has conducted and delivered over thirty GIS-focused workshops and presentations including the ESRI International Education User Conference in San Diego in 2003. He is currently completing a PhD at Macquarie University (Sydney) and is researching how and to what extent GIS enhances the conceptual understanding and higher order thinking skills of secondary Geography students. His research interests are GIS-based teaching strategies and mobile fieldwork data collection. Guest Presenter: Jason Sawle, Education Consultant, Esri UK ([email protected]) Jason has been working on schools based GIS since 1997 in both the university and commercial sectors. At Canterbury Christ Church University he won funding from the Higher Education Innovation Fund to set up a GIS Unit where he managed projects aimed at removing the barriers that were preventing schools from fully engaging with GIS. This work culminated in the development of the Dakini Project in 2004, which was a £3.3m European Regional Development Fund project looking at how GIS could be used in secondary schools in Kent and Nord-Pas-de-Calais. In parallel to his university work Jason also estab- lished DigitalWorlds International Ltd and launched a new GIS for the schools market called Digital- Worlds. This was the first GIS for schools that was based on industry standard technology, but specially designed for use in schools. In 2009, DigitalWorlds was bought by Esri UK Ltd and Jason now runs their GIS for Schools programme on a not for profit basis as part of Esri UK's Corporate and Social Responsibility work. Focus of the Day: GIS is an innovative technology that has the potential to facilitate inquiry and critical thinking in the Geography classroom.