iShireland Collegiate Academy

Shireland Learning Gateway

Sir Mark Grundy

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Our Context – Shireland/George Salter•Shireland has approximately 1110 11-19 students (70% Bilingual)•Approximately 40% of our students are on the SEN register and are eligible for free school meals •15% of our students are from families seeking asylum - 51 languages spoken at home •DfES/BECTA ICT Test Bed School•GCSE 5A* - C grades up to 64% from 24% •We serve 3 of the most deprived wards in the country•Sixth Form from 2002 (0 to 340 by 2007)•One of the highest value adding Specialist Schools in country •Executive management of George Salter High School since June 2003 and Ryders Green Primary School since January 2007•George Salter was the 2nd Most Improved School in the country in 2006 (over the last 3 years) •Collegiate Academies from September 2007

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

LP+ & Shireland Partnership

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

A Teenager’s Bedroom

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

But I want to talk to ….

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Involving others

At present our curriculum frameworks place a number of obstacles in the path of an integrated approach. In the first instance, we make it almost impossible to recognise and acknowledge forms of knowledge which do not fit neatly into our existing curriculum boxes.

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Involving others

As a result many young people either do not value, or are not given recognition for, the potentially wide range of skills and expertise that they develop in their out-of-school lives or in non ‘mainstream’ activities.

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Involving others

Secondly, many individuals and organisations with knowledge and resources to offer to education often find no easy ‘hooks’ into the formal school system.

So what are we doing?

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Learning Environments

“At the heart of personalisation is the understanding that learning environments comprise the totality of factors with which the learners interact, including people, spaces and resources. It is an ecology of learning in which both the learner and their environment respond flexibly to constant change in interaction with each other.”

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Benefits for staff, students and families of the Shireland Learning Gateway?

Personalised Learning Personalised feedbackPersonalised communicationCommunities developmentJust-in-time deliveryAnywhere, anytime deliveryImprovement strategy

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Student Portal

•1,000,000 hits per term•A key behaviour management tool•Message delivery system

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Student Portal

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Student Portal

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Achievement Tracker

This utility was developed to present key data to whole cohorts of students

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Class Sites - Primary

Work Storage– Class Produced and Homework

Games/Puzzles linked to Class Work Topics

Information/Calendar/News/Discussions/Surveys

Picture Libraries – at work/events

Subject Areas/Links to pertinent websites

Saves time and reduces staff workload

Better communication

Windows and walls

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Individual Learning Plan

Our students can set targets for themselves in this utility. They can then gather the evidence to confirm their achievements and present the evidence to their tutor

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Smart Phones, PDAs and UMPCs

We are currently developing some Revision materials for delivery to mobile phones

They are not as intrusive as other devices, they encourage discussion and group work

The Ultra Mobile PCs which we are using in Humanities are changing the dynamics for our learners

We are currently working with LP+ and O2 to provide Year 7 with a PDA and access to our Gateway

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Home Tutoring

UMPC

Student

Portal

Staff Portal

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

RSA Opening Minds

Competences for Learning Competences for Citizenship Competences for Relating to People Competences for Managing Situations Competences for Managing Information

We have just started talks with RSA about joint development of resources which can be delivered through the Gateway into classrooms and homes and to mobile devices

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

ASDAN

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Collaboration - KeyWay

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Primary Languages

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Primary Languages

Native speaker support

Perfect for whiteboards

Great for individual PC use

French, German, Spanish

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Key Stage 2 Revision

We have developed a collection of on-line resources to support our children as they prepare for their SATs

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Primary Resources

Our focus on Literacy and Numeracy has seen groups of teachers work together in a collaborative way to develop learning resources

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Behaviour Management Resources

We have developed resources to support both students and staff in relation to behaviour management

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

• There's an ugly term, Business Intelligence (or BI), used to describe the ability to draw together different strands of information from around an institution, and present and analyse it in real-time. It means, in a local authority, that you can create a single picture of attendance, attainment and exclusions, alongside key financial targets across the whole authority data set, and then map that against your wider CYPP targets.

• Office Performance Point Server 2007 provides all of the functionality that is needed for performance management including scorecards, dashboards, management reporting, analytics, planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. The application reaches all employees, across all business functions (finance, operations, marketing, sales, and human resources).

Product launch invitation: Performance Point Server 2007

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Staff Portal

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

School Evaluation Form

• Integrated SEF application inside Gateway

• Data (MIS) integration• Distributive mode• E-mail reminders• Ofsted ready

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School Development Planning

Staff set departmental targets and then share, evidence and review them throughout the year

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Performance ManagementOur latest utility supports the Performance Management process, acting as a target setting and evidence gathering tool for staff

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Multi use Applications - our Job Tracker

•Children’s Services Interventions•SEN

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Training

Our team have created an on-line training facility to support staff as they become familiar with the Gateway

Personalised learning | 21st Century skills | Raising standards

Family Portal

•A growing number of hits per month•Accessed at Mosques, Gurdwaras, Libraries•UHA Project

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Family Portal

Universal Home Access “The Jigsaw”

A conceptual framework for discussion

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Ask the Team About.... BETT 2008

Presentationswww.microsoft.com/uk/education/livemeetings

Thursday17th January

3:30 to 4:15pm

Learning Platform – Solution or Framework?

Learning Gateway Theatre Presentations