The last full week of the summer term saw Whitmore High School in Harrow collapsing the timetable in favour of “Achievement Week” – five days devoted to offering Year KS3 students different approaches to their learning. And, as staff wanted to include some creative approaches to maths, two of our facilitators joined the school for … Read More
Specifically designed to bring learning to life and give pupils exciting opportunities to practise and develop their skills, our Maths and Literacy Trails feature a wealth of engaging and meaningful activities. Perfect for outdoor spaces, they can be easily adapted for indoor use on rainy days – and have been developed with differentiation in mind. Although we … Read More
Over the summer term, Achieving Aspirations saw us working with 45 Year 9 students from the Hope Academy in Newton-Le-Willows. As part of the Academy’s wider programme with Achievement for All, we were asked to support the cohort in exploring the futures they wanted for themselves – and the skills and achievements they would need … Read More
After delivering an interactive whole-school INSET exploring the Davies Review of Enterprise Education and looking at enterprise skills, we worked closely with twelve teachers to investigate ways of incorporating enterprise across the curriculum. Following more in-depth examinations of “enterprise in action”, these Enterprise Ambassadors undertook small scale action research projects tracking the impacts on students … Read More
Based at the University of Liverpool, Moving On With Life and Learning (MOWLL for short) support adults with learning difficulties become self advocates through innovative and person-centred development programmes. The organisation has recently launched its FACE Facts campaign, aimed at stopping hate crime – with a particular focus on hate crime committed against people with … Read More
Haydock’s students are justifiably proud of their prowess at sport – but they’ve proved they’re equally adept at the arts! After working with us last year to challenge their aspirations, a group of Year 10s went on to gain the experiences and skills they needed for the bronze level Arts Award. The emphasis from the … Read More
In a programme planned with members of Archbishop Beck’s Creative Literacy Team, we supported 3 Year 7 classes in understanding the importance of both speaking and listening – and in developing their skills in these areas. Teachers and students were introduced to a range of engaging and interactive approaches designed by as creatives to model … Read More
Children at Beechwood Primary School became real life graphic designers and illustrators. Staff and students creatively used the industry standard software Adobe Photoshop Elements and Apple computers during the programme. Children across Key Stage 2 worked with as creative’s Kate Pankhurst (who regularly uses Photoshop to create published children’s books) and Simon McKeown (who uses … Read More
Time travel, heroes and villians, and the Great Fire of London. It’s all been going on at Holy Family Primary school! Over the course of a term, we worked with all Year 1 and 2 pupils (and their teachers) at Holy Family Primary School to explore ways of melding two topics: ‘The Great Fire of … Read More
Working closely with Year 1, 5 and 6 teachers, Sustainable Science combined science, literacy, numeracy and learning outside the classroom as the children recreated flood plains and volcanoes in scientific experiments and replanted and tended the school’s vegetable plots. After creating short plays about the impacts of natural and human-made disasters, the children put their … Read More
Working with 16 members of a Year 3 Nurture Group, their teacher and teaching assistant, Mapping the World Around Us explored some of the key events in Kirby’s timeline, allying these to the children’s skills – and supporting them in challenging their aspirations. A time vortex hovering over the school allowed the children to meet … Read More