vangeboskolen - seen through an english visitors eyes
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Vangeboskolen - seen through an english visitors eyes. Autumn 2010 we had visitors from Northampton School for Girls, UK During their visit, they should observe and make a presentation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Vangeboskolen- seen through an english visitors
eyes
• Autumn 2010 we had visitors from Northampton School for Girls, UK
• During their visit, they should observe and make a presentation
• The following 9 slides are a description of our school and they express some of the thoughts, our visitors would bring back to Northampton
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Reflections• Responsibility • Trust • Community • Warmth • Nurture • Respect• Student engagement • Building self esteem, self belief• Emotionally healthy
Independent learning• Are we expecting staff to
do this but not giving them the space and opportunity to plan it?
• Meeting pattern and focus • How can we make
challenges interesting enough for a student to solve without a teacher?
• Use of the VLE - online learning
• Opportunity is there with our Music and Applied specialism and Applied Days
Community• SDP focus development of
the learning communities • Bringing the place together
and increasing the sense of belonging
• Relationships is the key • Practical ways to support
this - wall tiles relating to the identity of their school, photos from the top of the buildings staff photos, whole staff
• Opportunities for younger students to interact and be supported by older students (in addition to the 6th form)
Nurture• SDP focus – building
self esteem individualised care
• Cushions, bean bags , Headphones ,making use of corridors - making it ok to sit on the floor
• Creative space with seating areas
• Creating a cocoon place within the library
Trust• Choose your conflict• Language we use to
emphasize this more often
• Build this into teacher talk
• Feed into curriculum development
• Dialogue in mentoring
Action plan
• Sow the seed wherever we can • Choose people we know will be receptive• Listen to their reactions and thoughts• Have an opportunity to reflect together• Be less afraid • Take this ethos and way of working with
students and apply it to our way of working with staff
Bigger things
• Curriculum change • Extended learning aided by creative
timetabling• Applied days music specialism• Visit other schools • Development of online learning• Creative with space – comfortable places
to work with our vulnerable youngsters
Questions
• We already have human scale values at the heart of our ethos. How can we embed this further and deeper and wider and stronger ?
• How do we keep the balance? • “You can’t teach someone to be human on
paper “