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Preparing for a rapidly changing world. Creativity Excellence Enjoyment The future. When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet due to the rapid developments in technology. Examples. DVD players Medicine Travel
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Preparing for a rapidly changing world Creativity Excellence Enjoyment The future...
When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet due to the rapid developments in technology.
Examples • DVD players • Medicine • Travel • Satellite TV • Mobile Phones • DNA • Computers • Email & Internet
For Discussion With the employment market so open to change, what skills do we want Queen’s Drive children to leave our school with?
Imagination, Purpose, Originality, Value. What would make an eight year old say, "WOW!"
Children’s Interests • Computer games –Playstations etc. • Cinema, films, cartoons etc. • Celebrities – Footballers, pop stars, movie heroes or heroines. • TV (Loco parentis) – Soap operas, reality TV, XFactor etc. What do we, as teachers, do with this culture?
Excellence and Enjoyment • Personalised learning. • Embracing children’s interests. • Engaging the whole child. • ECM • Enjoying and achieving through learning. • Having FUN!
The most powerful learning is 3 dimensional. www.eyetricks.com/scary_optical_illusion2.htm
Examples • Test out instructions by playing and making • Stimulating starting points -Smell a scene • Detective kits • Sentence length - mood through music • Walk through a story • Feeling • Taste • Act out verbs, adverbs, sentences etc • Narrative writing through dance • Celebrate mistake makers
Retention Rates • Lecture 5 % • Reading 10% • Audio-visual 20% • Demonstrating 30% • Discussion 50% • Practice by doing 75% • Teaching others 90%
What have other school done? • Include children’s interests in their teaching and learning. • Audited children’s different learning styles and preferences – VAK. • Planned to include different styles. • Introduced less traditional sports -Crown Green Bowling! • Grange Primary in Derbyshire.
What will we do? • www.grangeton.com • www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/innovation-unit/Information/ourprojects1/grangeton/?version=1#1102029 • www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/edcreative.htm#index • www.ncaction.org.uk/creativity/ • www.saskent.org.uk/sub-creativity.html • http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/atoz/c/creativityinschools/ • www.alite.co.uk • www.enchantedlearning.com • www.adrianbruce.com • www.rsa.org.uk/newcurriculum/index.asp If you would like any of concentration capturing images please give me your pen drive.