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Whole Education - 'Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway?' ManchesterWednesday, February 9, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM (GMT)Manchester, United Kingdom |
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'Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway?' Manchester
9.00am - 4.15pm A unique event to explore ways to 'reclaim' the curriculum and meet local schools and young people in your area already benefiting from the work of Whole Education's partners. Whole Education's 'Whose Curriculum Is It Anyway?' event is a one-stop shop for schools interested in projects and resources to make learning more relevant and engaging, and help young people develop the skills, qualities and knowledge they will need for the future.
Why attend?
Take advantage of increasing curriculum freedoms becoming available to you and learn more about over 20 innovative projects your schools can get involved with to provide outstanding teaching and learning by:
- helping young people develop a range of skills, qualities and knowledge
- helping make learning more relevant and engaging for young people, balancing practical and theoretical learning
- helping to engage the wider community and raise aspirations for learning
Who should attend?
Everyone is welcome to attend. The event is particularly targeted at heads and deputies of primary schools and heads, deputies and curriculum planners for secondary schools.
Attendees will be able to:
- access free innovative curriculum resources
- commission learning from other organisations
- connect with peers already involved in partner projects
"For any primary schools looking to take more control of their curriculum and empower teachers in their profession, the Whole Education Network's Events offer a range of innovative projects to get involved with, all in one place" (Alison Peacock, Head, Wroxham School.)
"Now is a great opportunity for all schools to reclaim the curriculum and help young people develop the skills, qualities and knowledge they will need for the future."(John Dunford. Chair, Whole Education).
To book tickets or for more information call 0207 451 6837 or email charlotte@wholeeducation.org
Alternatively book online by selecting 'order now' above.
9.00am - Arrival
Tea, coffee and pastries. Informal browsing and networking.
10.00am - Opening Keynote
Professor Mick Waters will provide an introduction to the emerging freedoms for schools to take control of the curriculum, highlighting the opportunities Whole Education provide in helping schools to do so.
10.30am - Whole Education Network
Highlighting the opportunities the Whole Education Network can provide to help schools.
10.45am - Projects Marketplace
Browse the marketplace to learn about over 20 innovative projects your school can get involved with and that you can learn about from peers during the day's breakouts.
11.45am - Breakout session 1
Hear from a leader actively involved in your choice of the partner projects present.
12.30pm - Lunch
1.15pm - Breakout session 2
Choose another project and hear from a leader currently implementing it.
2.00pm - Breakout session 3
Pick a third initiative and find out exactly what it involves from someone who is experiencing it first-hand.
2.45pm - Break
3.15pm - Breakout session 4
Pick a fourth initiative and find out exactly what it involves from someone who is experiencing it first-hand.
4.00pm - Breakout session 5
Your final chance today to hear in detail about the running of a project that you find exciting or want to learn more about.
4.45pm - Finish
Breakout sessions will include:
School-Home-Support
Learn more about how your school can engage with SHS practitioners. They are independent and based in school to work with children, young people and families to help them identify and resolve issues before they become bigger problems.
Food for Life Partnership
Discover how your school’s involvement in the FFLP programme will help reconnect learners with food, and use food education as a vehicle for school improvement and as a tool to increase community cohesion.
Open Futures
Learn more about Open Futures, a skills and enquiry-based curriculum development programme, linking learning and life. It was developed to help children discover and develop practical skills, personal interests and values.
World Challenge
Discover the benefits of World Challenge programmes that excite and engage, stretch and challenge, provide new skills and open doors for the future. Not just an amazing trip to another country but a whole developmental journey that starts long before students step on a plane.
Building Learning Power
Learn more about how Building Learning Power (BLP) helps young people to become better learners, both in school and out. It involves creating a culture in classrooms - and in schools more widely - that systematically cultivates habits and attitudes that enable young people to face difficulty and uncertainty (while at the same time improving conventional achievement indicators).
SkillForce
Learn more about how SkillForce works with schools to engage disadvantaged young people who are unlikely to achieve in mainstream school. Specific attention is given to positive outcomes: building confidence and self-esteem, and developing team working, problem solving and leadership skills.
Co-operative Trust Schools
Discover how to embed the values of the co-operative movement in the ethos and governance of trust schools to engage parents, pupils, teachers and the local community in education.
Studio Schools
Learn more about Studio Schools, a new type of 14-19 school designed to engage young people who might not otherwise reach their full potential in traditional school environments. They teach the national curriculum but with a much stronger emphasis on practical work and enterprise.
ASDAN
Explore a range of flexible, activity-based curriculum programmes and qualifications for young people to facilitate the development and accreditation of personal and social skills within various educational contexts.
Learning Futures
Learn more about the Learning Futures program that helps develop relevant learning, co-constructed curriculum, learning experiences in and out of school, and varies the dynamics of the teacher-pupil relationship.
Channel 4
Learn more about how your teachers can work, with pupils, to engage with educative content to teens, focusing on issues derived from their needs and desires that may be outside the more formal education curriculum. These often help build learning experiences around identity, self-esteem, and relationships; how this translates to teens’ life online, and the wider issues around digital literacy and security.
Human Scale Education
Explore how to create human scale learning environments where children and young people are known and valued as individuals.
Opening Minds
Learn more about how your school can run the Opening Minds program to provide young people with the real-world skills they will need to thrive, through a competence-driven curriculum framework.
Communities for Learning
Discover how to bring staff, students and community members together as a learning community, to support and develop both the individuals and the school community.
Education Futures
Explore how to prepare for and develop an ongoing and sustainable response to the challenges education faces as society and technology rapidly evolve.
Self and Social Learning
Learn more about using non-formal learning to develop social and personal skills, self-awareness and responsibility in young people.
Discovering Language
Explore how the Discovering Language programme introduces languages into primary schools through a multi-lingual language awareness programme, providing a good grounding in language, a greater cultural awareness, and enhanced communication skills.
Incerts
Learn more about how your school can work with Incerts to transform assessment in primary schools. Incerts use innovative technology and an analytical approach to help school leaders get more than they thought possible from assessment.
University of the First Age
The UFA network unlocks the potential of young people by raising aspirations across schools, homes and communities by creating transformational learning experiences. UFA inspires and equips young people and the adults that support them to become confident individuals, successful learners and responsible leaders.
Flow
Explore ways to promote the education of Essential Qualities - widely believed to be the very source of personal and social wellbeing.
The Young Foundation
Discover how The Young Foundation projects can help develop young people’s social and emotional learning, psychological resilience, enterprise, innovation and creativity.
Go4It
Learn more about Go4it, a nationally recognised awards process for schools in the UK demonstrating creativity, innovation and an adventure for learning with a positive attitude towards risk. It helps schools inspire and challenge students in order to further improve their life chances.
Learning to Lead
Explore the Learning to Lead programme that takes the real life experience of ‘school’ as a community and offers tools, programme sharing courses and structures to support young peoples’ involvement in all aspects of their life and learning, working towards positive change.
Speakers Trust
Discover how Speakers Trust can run programmes in your school to promote the benefit of public speaking as a life skill and take an informed approach as to how to meet the needs of the young people as individuals.
Sixth Form Baccalaureate (SFBac)
Learn more about the SFBac, a new national award recognising all-round sixth form learning and achievement, and emphasising that developing skills and values is just as important as subject knowledge.
ViTaL Partnerships
Discover how your school can use research validated tools like ELLI (the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory) that help re-engage learners and inspire measurable change in them and the learning community.
When & Where
The Co-operative
New Century House
Corporation Street
M60 4ES Manchester
United Kingdom
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM (GMT)
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