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Personalising Learning Development and Research Hubs Yorkshire and the Humber Birley Community College Curriculum Hub

Personalising Learning Development and Research Hubs Yorkshire and the Humber Birley Community College Curriculum Hub. Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher Ruth Sorsby – SSAT Regional Coordinator.

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Personalising Learning Development and Research Hubs Yorkshire and the Humber Birley Community College Curriculum Hub

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  1. Personalising LearningDevelopment and Research HubsYorkshire and the HumberBirley Community CollegeCurriculum Hub Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher Ruth Sorsby – SSAT Regional Coordinator

  2. ‘Personalised learning demands that every aspect of teaching and support is designed around a pupil’s needs…’ David Miliband, January 2004 The challenge is to meet more needs of more students more fully than in the past

  3. PL – The gateways Student Voice Design&Organisation Assessment for Learning Learning to Learn Workforce Reform Mentoring&Coaching New Technologies Advice&Guidance Curriculum

  4. ‘The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust works to give practical support to the transformation of secondary education in England by building and enabling a world-class network of innovative, high performing secondary schools in partnership with business and the wider community’ by schools for schools

  5. D & R Networks 1 5 innovation networks in 11 regions led by a hub school • Student voice • Learn to learn • Curriculum • New technologies • Assessment for learning • Resources • £6000 • Regional Coordinators • Developing Leaders • ICT infrastructure

  6. D & R Networks 2 Four networks • A gateway-specific regional network i.e. a hub and its local partners • A gateway-specific national network i.e. all the regional hubs for that gateway • A regional hub network i.e. the region’s hubs for each gateway • A national hub network i.e. all hubs of all gateways in all regions Over 500 schools potentially!

  7. Aims of D&R • Knowledge creation or production • Knowledge capture • Knowledge transfer

  8. Strategy • lateral transfer of good practice • new practice through development and research • teacher-led, school based • no top-down, quick fix solutions Doing things differently in order to do them better

  9. Curriculum Hub Philosophy • To establish effective regional inter-school networks to promote greater and more effective personalisation • To identify and share best practice in curriculum design across the networks • To develop and innovate next practice across the networks • To share regional developments nationally with other regional Hubs

  10. Background to Birley • 2000 – Designated specialist Technology College status • 2001 – Introduced first vocational qualifications in KS4 (part 1 GNVQ ICT) • 2002 – Full, intermediate GNVQ in Science and ICT introduced • 2003 – Full Pathways curriculum introduced to KS4 • 2006 – GNVQ successors – BTEC, OCR National, DiDA, NVQ integrate into pathways • 2000 5+ A*-C GCSE – 35% • 2004 5+ A*-C GCSE – 52% • 2005 5+ A*-C GCSE – 58 % • Demonstrable curriculum change management at KS4 In top 100 most improved schools

  11. Background to Birley - Pathways • Pathway 1: 10 or 11 GCSEs (some do triple science) +ECDL+ (some able engineers do Applied GCSE in engineering as a double award) • Pathway 2: One of four GNVQs (or now, their successors) + 6/7 GCSEs +ECDL for most • Pathway 2a: Asdan (Cope), NVQ1 (one day at Sheffield College) and 5/6 GCSEs + ECDL(or similar) • Pathway 3: Asdan (Cope), NVQ1 or similar (external),3 GCSE’s and work based learning + ECDL (or similar) Pathways has now become established in many schools particularly across the SSAT network. The Hub needs to broaden its focus to cover KS3, KS5 and alternative approaches

  12. Establishing the Hub Steering group forms shares experience and expertise Birley submits Plan to cover all aspects of curriculum Regional SSAT schools invited to participate in Hub Network Established and maintained by Birley/hub steering group Conference organised to share practice with school not yet changed curriculum Next practice to develop from best practice within hub

  13. Key Hub Schools • Birley Community College, Sheffield Pathways curriculum at KS4 • Oakwood TC, Rotherham Alternative provision at KS4 • Firth Park Community Arts College, Sheffield Pathways and secure routes to KS5 • Outwood Grange School, Wakefield Compression of KS3, expansion of KS4 • Beckfoot School, Bradford Early GCSE entry • Kingstone School, Barnsley Thematic approaches to KS3 • Yewlands School, Sheffield Thematic approaches to KS3

  14. Workshop/network opportunities • Establishing and managing pathways at KS4 • B. Wider qualification choice at KS4 • C. Progression to post 16 with vocational courses • D. 2 year KS3, 3 year KS4, Y9 GCSE entry • E. Pedagogy driven curricula in Y7, • F. Changes to the Science Curriculum at Key Stage 4

  15. Contacts: Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher Birley Community College Thornbridge Avenue Sheffield S11 7LQ Tel: 0114 2392531 Fax: 0114 2655034 Email: aireland@birleycc.sheffield.sch.uk Ruth Sorsby – Regional Coordinator, Yorkshire and Humber Tel: 01709 532705 Mob: 07734 814509 Email: ruths@ssatrust.org.uk

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