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Page 1: Preparing for a rapidly changing world. When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet

Preparing for a rapidly Preparing for a rapidly changing worldchanging world

Page 2: Preparing for a rapidly changing world. When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet

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.

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ExamplesExamples

DVD players Medicine Travel Satellite TV Mobile Phones Computers Email & Internet

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For DiscussionFor Discussion

With the employment market so open to

change, what skills do we want Our Lady and St

Gerard’s children to leave our school with?

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Imagination, Purpose, Originality, Imagination, Purpose, Originality, Value.Value.

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Children’s InterestsChildren’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, X Factor etc.

What do we, as teachers, do with this culture?

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Excellence and EnjoymentExcellence and Enjoyment

Personalised learning.Embracing children’s interests.Engaging the whole child.ECMEnjoying and achieving through

learning.Having FUN!

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Examples of creativityExamples of creativity

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

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Retention RatesRetention Rates

Lecture 5 % Reading 10% Audio-visual 20% Demonstrating 30% Discussion 50% Practice by doing 75% Teaching others 90%

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What have other schools What have other schools done?done?

Used the children’s interests in their learning.

Audited children’s different learning styles and preferences – VAK.

Planned to include different styles. Introduced less traditional sports -

Crown Green Bowling!See Grange Primary in Derbyshire.

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Unusual pictures stimulate Unusual pictures stimulate imaginationimagination

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Good Friends!Good Friends!

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A strange friendship!A strange friendship!

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Who’s that knocking at the Who’s that knocking at the door?door?

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Something to think about!Something to think about!

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Useful WebsitesUseful Websites

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/creativityi

nschools/ www.alite.co.uk www.enchantedlearning.com www.adrianbruce.com www.rsa.org.uk/newcurriculum/index.asp