Preparing for a rapidly Preparing for a rapidly changing worldchanging world

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.

ExamplesExamples

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

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?

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

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?

Excellence and EnjoymentExcellence and Enjoyment

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

learning.Having FUN!

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

Retention RatesRetention Rates

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

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.

Unusual pictures stimulate Unusual pictures stimulate imaginationimagination

Good Friends!Good Friends!

A strange friendship!A strange friendship!

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

Something to think about!Something to think about!

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