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Our Case Study Presentations offered solutions from
different contexts. We organised them around loose themes:
Primary, Secondary, Community and Challenge so delegates
could create their own programmes on the day.
Having heard
the inspiring keynotes, attendees were able to go and
see for themselves. We invited over a dozen of the most
outstanding practitioners from schools, local authorities
and community groups from around the UK to present their
work. Delegates were able to visit them in scheduled
Case Study Presentations in timetabled slots throughout
the day. Meeting the Challenge was designed so that
there was a structured opportunity to access four of
the formal Case Study Presentations, as well as visiting
the stands throughout the day.
The case study
presentees at Alite 2004 were as follows:
Gilroy Brown
Birmingham Advisory and Support Services
Meeting the Challenge of Black Underachievement
Only 30% of all Black pupils achieve 5 or more good
GCSEs compared to a national average of 51%. What can
schools and Local Authorities do about this? Hear how
you can begin to redress this imbalance.
Sharon Gray
Beormund Primary School, London
Meeting the Challenge of Inclusion
Beormund is a Beacon School, near London Bridge. Headteacher
Sharon Gray says: “our aim is to fully reintegrate
the children successfully into mainstream schools.”
Their approach is obviously successful as exclusions
have been at zero for the last two years. Find out how
they help others manage inclusion.
Cris Edgell
Sacred Heart School, London
At the Heart of Learning
Meeting the challenge of inner-city secondary education
and doing so with vision, energy and optimism. Find
out what makes Sacred Heart School in Southwark so special
that the Prime Minister would choose it to launch the
London Challenge.
Julie Bradley
Padiham St Leonards Church of England School, Lancashire
Breakthroughs in Learning
Featured in the Observer and on national television,
a school whose very specific use of Accelerated Learning
techniques has resulted in dramatic improvements in
pupil behaviour, attention and attendance.
Graeme Logan
Donibristle Primary School, Fife
Let’s Start from the Very Ending
A school which starts from learner outcomes and which
involves children in their learning at every level.
Meet a school which delivers the five R’s: resilience,
resourcefulness, responsibility, reasoning, and reflection.
Teresa Tunnadine
The Compton School, London
Climate for Change
A coherent approach to all round improvements in motivation,
teaching and learning which shows how it is possible
to gain success by focussing on students.
David Crossley
Kings College, Guildford, Surrey
Starting Afresh
If you were given an empty canvas what sort of school
might you create?. Emerging from the most difficult
of circumstances, Kings College had to be radical to
succeed. Lessons for us all in leadership and in learning.
Janice Graham and Mike Woodall
Saltwells Education Development Centre, Dudley
Family Learning
Parents are the first teachers and the family the
first classroom. Every school in the land seeks the
support of parents and wants to get them more involved
in their child’s learning. What does it look like
when it’s done really well? Dudley LEA have gained
national prominence in their ground-breaking work with
family learning
Helen Freeborn
Siddal Moor Sports College, Rochdale
Meeting the Challenge of Boys’ Underachievement
There are twice as many boys with learning difficulties
as girls; they are five times more likely to be excluded
and the gap between boys’ and girls’ achievement
at GCSE continues to widen. In this dynamic and provocative
session find out what one school is doing about it.
Jane Rolph, Angela Moore and Sara Stanley
Chapel Break First School, Norwich
Getting it Right from the Earliest.
Is it possible to introduce child-centred learning
and meet the requirements of the national curriculum
at the same time? Is it possible to do so without extra
work? What are the key components of getting it right
from the earliest?
Peter Rubery
Priory Lane, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Emotionally Intelligent Schooling
Is emotional intelligence anything more than a fad?
What can it offer your school? Find out how schools
have clustered together to build self-confidence and
self-belief in their pupils.
Diane King and Martine Sinker
REAL Trust, Rochdale
DIY Collaboration
What might it be like if schools genuinely collaborated?
The REAL Trust is a unique model which sits alongside
the Local Authority and delivers meaningful development
for all schools. Take a glimpse at the future of networking.
Michael Harbour and Ian Cox
Mayfield School, Portsmouth
Meeting the Challenge of Special Measures
Using a combination of coaching, CPD focused on teaching
repetoires and peer observation Mayfield School in Portsmouth
took itself out of Special Measures. What has their
experience of ‘self-development’ got to
offer other schools?
Derek Wise and Mark Lovatt
Cramlington School, Northumberland
Learning to Learn
A whole school approach to Learning to Learn which
goes beyond worksheets. Integrating personal insight,
problem solving, team-working and technology, this is
the programme described by a million-selling educational
writer as ‘the best in the world’.
Richard Gerver
Grange Primary School, Nottingham
A Holistic Approach to Learning
Learn about Grangetown, a learning community which
enhances its curriculum through a museum, a radio station,
a television studio, a healthy eating shop and a job
centre. Remind yourself what learning should be like!
Jan Campbell
The BREAZ, Dudley
Freshening up Teaching
How one innovative Local Authority
project introduced Accelerated Learning methods alongside
emotionally intelligent leadership. The outcomes included
some of the most improved schools in the country.
Each Case
Study presented at Meeting the Challenge features in
the conference book Meeting the Challenge. It provides
a description of what has been done and how, the context,
examples of many of the resources used and contact details.
Each of the keynoters is also included. To purchase
a copy of the book Meeting the Challenge, click
here.
To find out more
about the keynote presenters at this event, click
here.
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