L2L Open Days

The day is aimed at colleagues charged with developing and integrating ICT across a whole school and colleagues who are interested in seeing how ICT can engage learners and enhance learning.

The day will give ample opportunity to see how ICT is fully integrated within lesson planning across all subjects and lessons at Cramlington. Delegates will have a tour of the school to see how we have provided ICT access in a range of innovative ways.

You will also see how we are beginning to take advantage of the 89% of time that students are not in front of teachers by utilising our VLE.

The day is aimed at colleagues charged with developing, implementing or teaching a learning to learn course. Alvin Toffler said that the illiterate of the 21st Century will be those that cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Cramlington Learning Village has take this to heart and has embedded a learning to learn course as a core part of our curriculum for years 7, 8 and 9.

This learning to learn course goes far beyond mind mapping and memory techniques and seeks to develop learner skills and dispositions. We aim to produce autonomous thinkers and learners. The learning to learn course is designed to be a first step in developing learning to learn approach across the whole school.

The Open day will explore our journey towards where we are now and some of the ups and downs along the way. There will be an opportunity to talk to students on the learning to learn course and to visit learning to learn lessons. Delegates will get the chance to explore our lesson plans and the materials used on the course and will leave with a demo disc containing some of the materials.

Find out how the maths team at Cramlington Learning Village have created an engaging maths curriculum based around an enquiry model of learning to develop essential maths knowledge and skills.

Teachers in the maths department at Cramlington Learning Village will share with delegates their experience in putting together a maths curriculum based around “big” essential questions. Delegates will hear about the 5 stage backwards design model used to plan the modules and how essential learner skills and attributes are developed alongside maths content using the CASKE framework.

There will be an opportunity to visit maths classrooms and to talk to students as they use the new resources. Maths is taught in flexible learning environments in an ICT rich setting. Part of the experience will be to see how the department make use of extensive resources on the VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) and how students evidence their progress through E Portfolios.

What comes first - the curriculum or the learning space? We will look at the the interplay between curriculum planning and teaching/learning spaces - this will include observation of lessons taking place in the new open-plan Science Learning Plaza.

ICT and student progress. How we use the Virtual Learning Environment and eportfolios to evidence achievement. We will consider the benefit sand challenges of our new curriculum and learning space, and take the opportunity to look at a scheme of work in some detail.

Next steps! Implementing innovative approaches in conventional science facilities (a collaborative project with Haydon Bridge High School) and curriculum planning incorporating Gardner's 5 minds for the future.

Web Design Open Days

Continued Professional Development

Then try out some inexpensive software you can use to make your lessons come alive.

Applications such as Audacity, Crazy talk and Visual Communicator can give you resources which are quick and easy to create.

During this 'hands on' day our web designers will show you how to create interactive resources to revolutionise your lessons.

For anyone who wishes to learn how to use inexpensive software to bring lessons to life.

Cramlington Learning Village is a secondary school of two thousand three hundred students with nearly two hundred teaching and support staff. The school has a national reputation for teaching and learning which was declared “outstanding” by Ofsted in our last two reports.

Delegates are invited to our “CPD” open day to explore our model for teaching and learning and to find out how we achieve a consistent and coherent approach to teaching and learning across a large school.

The day will include a tour of the “new” Junior Learning Village including the open plan science learning plaza and double teaching spaces for our “Learn2 Humanities” course. Delegates will leave with a comprehensive overview of our CPD programmes and a clear idea of what works in terms of “affecting” classroom practice.