“Leading at all Levels” Margaret Holman and Jim Parker Bishop Stopford School

Find out about strategies adopted by Bishop Stopford School to ensure that all staff are able to make a contribution to school improvement.  These include seminar groups, internal secondments, teaching and learning teams, MBAs, action research.

“Building Learning Power, A Learning to Learn Course with Real Punch” Derek Wise and Mark Lovatt Cramlington Community High School

“The School of the Future will combine the best in teaching in learning with the most effective use of ICT”, Gordon Dryen co-author of “The Learning Revolution”.  Cramlington have devised a 3½ hour per week Learning to Learn course which develops the habits, dispositions and attitudes necessary for lifelong learners, integrates ICT to meet KS3 requirements, and user accelerated learning, group work, thinking skills and enquiry based learning techniques.

“Our role as a specialist college in creating a wider community of learning - some successful projects” Ivan Catlow The Hollins Technology College

The presentation will focus on The Hollins Technology College’s role as a specialist college in creating a wider community of learning.  Successful projects include: design and technology, summer school, sewing machine driving licence, CAD/CAM into primary schools.

“Motivating reluctant learners using creative technology” Michael Jolley and Paul Emery Intake High School

Intake has always used external creative professionals to enrich the learning for students across broad areas of the curriculum.  Last year 2000 hours of delivery across a wide range of cross-curricular and cross-phase projects included a group of disaffected year ten students working with a film maker.  As well as technical skills, the students were exposed to a range of real life learning situations; working to a brief, working to deadlines, working with others, problem solving, taking risks, managing their artistic temperaments and budgeting.  The presentation will outline the activity, the challenges it created and the change in relationships that have grown out of the work.  Although this took place in an Arts College, it is applicable to all school contexts as a model for working across subject areas, inclusion, and using the skills of external providers in the classroom.

“Encouraging Student Leadership in a Global Village – our Experience at Langdon” Vince Doherty and Pinda Jagdev Langdon School

Students and staff from Langdon will present their experience of developing student leadership in projects within and beyond Langdon, a very diverse school.  The school has worked on national and international projects with Aid agencies in particular.  All has impacted strongly on the school’s positive ethos and on student skills.

‘Using ICT to create a dynamic learning and sharing environment.’ Denise Burns and Sian Hartle, Deputy Headteachers Ninestiles Community School

The presentation will show how an e-learning environment has evolved at Ninestiles, from the late 90s with its bookable  ICT rooms, through to the current situation where  800+ laptops are leased by pupils, all staff have their own laptops, most have a projector in their classrooms, banks of loan laptops are positioned in faculties all over the school and staff have received high-quality training in lesson delivery through ICT. Also featured will be the shared planning, and the dynamic, high-impact, multi-media lessons which have resulted.