Centre of Excellence award evidence

Beaverwood School for Girls

Contents

• Slides 1-: Section 1- staff CPD• Slides -: Section 2- Primary teaching• Slides -: Section 3- Primary fieldwork and

Humanities days• Slides -: Section 4- Year 6 bridging project• Slides -: Section 5- International Links

Section 1- staff CPD

This is a screen shot of the website set up on the collegiate day in February 2012 to allow staff from the 9 schools to upload their evidence and resources from the

projects they have developed. It is hoped that this can be shared by the next training day in Feb 2013.

Geography Action Week programme of activities- there are a range of things to cover all year groups and to engage some of the older students by getting them involved in

organising activities and wider projects. We are hoping this will become an annual event with a different theme each time.

• Geography Action Week• Monday 2nd July- Friday 6th July• Theme for this year- Sustainability• Activities:• Assemblies in each year group- ET to lead and coordinate with yr 10 pupils.• Fund raising activities linked to water and solar aid (KBa and EF coordinating ideas)- pennies in a bucket- KS3

competition run by EF’s yr 9 form.• How sustainable is the school? Year 8 project- to be run in lessons and for homework- pupils go out and collect

data and create a project/ pitch to present findings and suggest solutions (Dragons Den style)- RM to coordinate.

• Power point and action for staff and students to focus on for this week e.g. reducing electricity consumption, things they can do at home and school- to be shown in registration on Monday- ET to coordinate- year 12 pupils to do.

• Display to be put up outside M19- also project on sustainable Olympics- yr 12 to organise.• Yr 10 classes to create displays for each of the 4 geography classrooms• Humanities day extravaganza- engage local primary schools in sustainability (on the Thursday of this week)- get

year 9 students to put the programme for the day together.• Whole school competition- £60 prize to donate to one of the projects- either to Solar Aid or to twin a toilet. • Year 12 trip to restored rivers in this week- feedback and present? LW to coordinate.• Themed lessons across all year groups in this week.

This is the feedback that I received as a result of the

CPD day. It has clearly been an enjoyable and beneficial day for the majority of staff who

attended and found that the projects that have come out of this have

already started to have an impact in the 9 schools.

Section 2- Primary teaching

The year 9 and 10 students were given a range of training sessions before the visits to the primary school and one of them was a ‘how to teach’ workshop, where students

had to work in pairs/threes to teach another group a task I had created for them- this was designed to be quick and get them to think about how they should explain

activities and what kind of feedback they should give.

Here is an email that I received from the Head of Year 4 at Red Hill giving some feedback on the sessions last year (there are pupil feedback forms in

the portfolio for the SGQM).

Section 3: Primary fieldwork and Humanities days

Here is some feedback that I received from the staff and pupils from this year’s fieldwork day at Red Hill and some photos of the

pupils who came to the Humanities days here at Beaverwood!

Section 4: Year 6 bridging project

Section 5: International Links

Photos from the celebration evening in March 2012 for the Swift Weavers project

Copies of a pupil’s work from the life in Nigeria lessons, that are part of the Year 9 Africa SOW- this was from watching a series of video clips that I had taken whilst out in Kano and using images and pictures also from the visit to compare life in Kano and the UK. Students then

completed further discussion work cased on this.