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Oldmachar Academy. Planning for Session 2013 - 2014. School Aims. Promoting Ambition and Social Justice. Promoting Social Justice: School Values It’s everyone’s responsibility to look out for each other Everyone has the right to freedom and access to a safe learning environment
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Oldmachar Academy Planning for Session 2013 - 2014
School Aims Promoting Ambition and Social Justice Promoting Social Justice: School Values • It’s everyone’s responsibility to look out for each other • Everyone has the right to freedom and access to a safe learning environment • Every child at Oldmachar has the right to feel safe, and to be able to express themselves and not be judged by others • Everybody in the world is different, so everyone should have the right to be themselves and should not be bullied for their differences.
Protecting Children School / Classroom Practice • Application of Attendance Procedures (including punctuality) • Effective Classroom Management • Knowledge of pupils’ ASN • Application of Staged Procedures • Uniform Monitoring
S1 Experience • Curriculum • Double Units of Art, HE and PE • Focus on Literacy and Numeracy, Languages • Expansion of Humanities Curriculum • Drama • Science and Technology • Support • Universal Personal Support • Global Citizenship • Health and Wellbeing delivery
Core Skills Framework • Shared as a Learning Intention • Skills that pupils have opportunity to show are broken down – can be used as Success Criteria • Referred throughout as part of on-going feedback
Learning Intentions • ‘The learning intention is what you want the pupils to learn’ Shirley Clarke • ‘Learning intentions describe what children are going to learn, not what they are going to do’ Dylan Wiliam Example: • I can describe and explain a natural hazard event (content) • I can locate, collect and edit information (skill)
Success Criteria • ‘Success criteria summarise the key steps or ingredients the student needs in order to fulfil the learning intention – the main thing to do, include or focus on’ Shirley Clarke • ‘Learners learn best when they understand what they are learning and what is expected of them’ Dylan Wiliam
Upgrade of Progress Indicators In relation to learning planned at a particular level:
Profiling • Last year we developed a senior phase profiling system to replace reports • In response to feedback from staff, students and parents, we are evolving profiling through e-portfolios • This allows reports to be written as before for all year groups
Tracking Progress The information provided will: • Describe students’ progress in particular learning episodes • Describe progress across the curriculum • Build a picture of where we need to intervene and support / challenge students • Be easily understood and communicable to students and parents
Peer Listeners • A trained team of S6 students • Who support your children • And are available at breaks and lunch times • And undertake activities with the S1 students • And support our Respect-Me policy
A Violent World? There are over a dozen conflicts in the world today that cause more than 1000 death per year There are even more that cause less than 1000 deaths per year • “We are probably living in the most peaceful time in the history of our species” • There are fewer murders of humans by humans than at any time in history in the past 10,000 years • The death rate goes down from 65000 deaths per conflict per year in 1950 to 2000 in this decade, as horrific as it is.
Immanuel Kant • “No state shall by force interfere with the constitution or government of another state.” It also argues that, “No State Shall, during War, Permit Such Acts of Hostility Which Would Make Mutual Confidence in the Subsequent Peace Impossible: Such Are the Employment of Assassins, Poisoners, Breach of Capitulation, and Incitement to Treason in the Opposing State." Immanuel Kant
Jeremy Gilley • “There was no starting point for peace. There was no day when humanity came together. And if we united and interculturally cooperated then that might shift the level of consciousness around the fundamental issues that humanity faces.”
John Hunter • “I was creating a lesson for students on Africa. We put all the problems of the world there and I though, let’s let them solve it. I didn’t want to lecture or have just book reading. So I thought, let’s play a game. I’ll make something interactive and it has since evolved… We have ethnic minority tensions, nuclear proliferation, oil spills, environmental disasters, famine, endangered species, global warming – my fourth graders solved global warming in a week.”
Peace Builders • The Peace Direct website reports the following story, “In the turbulent mountain region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a 23-year-old peacebuilder has founded a network of peace activists – a brave band of young people whose mission is to halt the spread of religious extremism and rescue their peers from recruitment into militant organisations. • Gulalai Ismail started this work aged just 16, after meeting a woman whose son had become a militant. The mother had taken delivery of her boy’s dead body – he was 12.”
Observe your own day of peace • Treat others the way that you would want to be treated • Respect their right to exist free from harm • Respect personal space • Avoid mocking people; slagging people; hurting people
