Pupil Voice

1. Pupil Voice Lesson Reflection Literacy Reviews School Council Personlisation Learning Platform Inspiration Virtual Staffroom Debate Monitor’s Creative Writing Collaborative Classrooms Communication Peer assessment Self assessment Extend Learning Outside the Classroom Engaging Parents Independent and personalised learning Preparation for the World Wide Web Science

2. Pupil Voice Integrated technologies provide opportunities for increased pupil involvement in the school community. It also raises the quality of engagement for most pupils regardless of their age or phase. • Whole school involvement in developments • Increased confidence of pupils • Developing greater ownership and team work within the school • When pupil voice is successful students start to come up with the ideas themselves and they start to lead the initiatives themselves. They take pride in the school and the many element that have helped shape. How to achieve Pupil Voice Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

3. Pupil Voice Create a ‘Pupil Voice’ page which give’s some students limited time ownership to build the page up Include Posties and Forums to allow all students to have their voice heard by the school Blog about school life promoting events that might otherwise go unmissed Blog about school trips allowing students at home to review posts from school. Use voting tools to debate school issues Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

4. School Council Collaborative School Councils help build skills from confidence to leadership and planning. Using this way of working can help develop their sense of teamwork and responsibility for things. How the a learning platform can help: • Document meetings and upload documents • Host forums for non-council members to have their say • Use voting tools to debate school issues • The real power of the learning platform is that it gives everybody the opportunity to make a contribution. So those children who are normally quieter have an opportunity to share their thoughts. It’s about getting all the children involved Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

5. Peer assessment & Self assessment Many of the interactive tools allow for reflection and therefore offer assessment opportunities. The Learning Platform offers many tools which can be used for assessment. Documenting assessment if as simple as printing the screen. Ideas: • Peer assessment of poetry and other literacy word is extremely easy and common thorough VLP resources. • Self assessment of work produced in class can be easily reached. Adding comments and changing work upon reflection is a perfect example of online tools. • Due to the reflective nature of the online tools students can continue to contribute at home. How to achieve Self/Peer assessment Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

6. Peer assessment & Self assessment • Google Forms – Self Assessment Descriptive Text: Create a postie with the aim that each student write a piece of descriptive text. Next create and embed a Google form asking students to reflect on the elements they have included in there descriptive piece of text. Google then stores the all the data in a spreadsheet for the teacher and class to discuss and reflect upon. If students are often asked to complete a task like this they will begin to analyse what they write before they write it. • Each student posts a personal written poem into a postie tool. Students can then comment and review each others poems. • Create blogs and allow productive comments to made about areas of interest • Your learning platform should not be one dimensional. Why not allow students to film their learning and then display on the platform for peer assessment? • If your students do not have computer access in all lessons, integrate the learning platform with an interactive whiteboard to actively show progress being made at various checkpoints during lessons. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

7. Independent and personalised learning A Learning platform can provide avenues to allow students to fully develop skills previously taught in class. Interactive tools can aid student's to: • Practice learning techniques • Extend knowledge and repeat the techniques taught in class • Personal focus • Due to the reflective nature of the online tools students can continue to contribute at home, further developing their knowledge and aiding others • Personal creation of Blogs and other resources allow students to develop their own interests. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

8. Personlisation • Allowing students to have responsibility of their own pages gives them a sense of ownership • Involve students in the VLP development will give them the opportunity to take pride in their school’s site • Personalise at home learning through the various interactive tools available – allowing students to excel in the tools/topics that are more meaningful to them • Due to the reflective nature of the online tools students can continue to contribute at home. • Use Learning Status’ to reflect upon the skill’s they found ‘easy’ to learn and which ones they feel they need to work on • At the beginning of each week ask students to set their own targets for this week using the Learning Status Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

9. Creative Writing • Creative writing techniques can be transferred into a forum or wiki where an online stories is being created. • Students can create blogs about whatever interests them – best blogger awards can encourage these skills. • Writing for boys – Sports review blog can inspire boys to write. Allow them to get into a journalist mind-set reporting on the weekends events. • A day in the life – give each student the opportunity to write a blog entry as a character in a book the class is reading. • Adventure story wiki – The teacher writes the first part of the story and the students write the next • Post a picture or a video and ask the students to create an exciting piece of writing based around it Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

13. Lesson Reflection • Skills can be taught using traditional methods in class these can the be transferred to online learning tools to allow for skill reflection. • Forums or postie can be created to allow students to chat about a lesson and its contents. • Use there Learning Status to reflect upon the skills they found ‘easy’ to learn and which ones they feel they need to work on. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

14. Literacy Reviews • Review poems, films and other media • Create newspaper style blogs to encourage extended learning Review student’s poems Review class poems Develop to create your own poems Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

15. Communication • Revision forums to aid students combat issues • Communication to parents via newsletters and other uploaded contents Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

16. Engaging Parents • Sharing learning with parents in a safe and secure way so they have a greater understanding of their child’s progress • Providing opportunities for extending learning outside the classroom with extension and consolidation activities • ‘Where in the world’ Project – contribute to a class global challenge project using Google maps • Benny Bear Blog – Take turns in taking home benny bear, take pictures and write a blog for class mates to read about with their parents. • Developing parents as partners in their child’s education – Sharing with parents what topics are being covered in class allowing then to encourage extended learning at home. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

17. Engaging Parents Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

18. Extend Learning Outside the Classroom • Skills can be taught using traditional methods in class these can the be transferred to online learning tools to allow for skill reflection. • Forums or postie to allow students to chat about a lesson and its contents. • Your learning platform should not be one dimensional. Why not allow students to film their learning and then display on the platform for peer assessment? • If your students do not have computer access in all lessons, integrate the learning platform with an interactive whiteboard to actively show progress being made at various checkpoints during lessons. These checkpoints and be reviewed by both students and parents at home. • Extending more able students by including more challenging content and learning materials is a very effective use of a VLE, and a big “win” with parents. This assures them that their child is not merely being overloaded with more work, but are being directed to materials that are fully extending them. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

19. Virtual Staffroom • Allow an area for staff to upload planning • Make your learning platform indispensable to your staff. Use it to display cover, staff notices and share teaching resources. Ensure that they cannot fail to be impressed with the convenience. That way, more of your colleagues will sign up to additional training • Make your learning platform indispensable to your staff. Use it to display cover, staff notices and share teaching resources. Provide CPD that focuses on time-saving features and the enhancement of learning. • If you are having trouble getting your staff to log on, then give them no choice. Create an “online staffroom” where everything they need is accessible. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

20. Collaborative Classrooms • Creating a combined class topicpage for all KS1/KS2 classes are covering the same topic. Save time and work by collaborating classes online work. • Create school useful link pages, these will rarely need to be changed so the effort at the beginning is well worth it for all students and staff Here are examples of a Subject Zone page. The different pages host links to external sites for the students to access when at home. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

21. Preparation for the World Wide Web • Many of these tools blend to tools found on the World Wide Web • The tools on the platform are in a safe and secure environment. • Teaching e-safety is most successful when applied to real life settings, the learning platform is the perfect environment to aid this experience Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

22. Debate Documenting class debate can be very hard to achieve. The Learning Platform offers a forum tool which can capture debate and allow for reflection at the end of the topic. Debates and take place at the start of a topic and can be reopened towards the end. Opinions may have changed and this can be looked at and discusses as a group. Students who are less likely to speak out in class are more likely to have their say in an online environment. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

23. Science The blog tools offers a perfect environment for experiment documentation. Create a class or personal blog documenting growing Bulbs. Create a collaborative knowledge bank based on Animal.Create a collaborative knowledge bank based on SpaceCreate a class space blog, giving students the opportunity to take and upload nightly photographs of the moon, commenting on the positions and shape of the moon. Discussion in class can then aid the students understanding. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

24. Mentor / Monitors This is when a teacher assigns two students per week to become life monitors. Life monitors are given the responsibility of looking through the class pages, resources and e-portfolio spaces and report back with any excellent work or report misbehaviour. The advantages of this method will be to ensure that all students use the platform appropriately and to the best of their ability. Life Monitors could be given badges or use ‘Life is for learning’ green wrist bands. Life Worker of the Term This could be another award/certificate given to students who have used the platform to aid there learning. This might be that they have gone the extra mile when using wiki’s, forums or training other students. Back to Homepage Contact Us: www.haltonlearning.org.uk

25. Geography Blog a day in the life of…team up with a school nationally or internationally. Create a blog for all student's to contribute too. Where in the world… How many places around the world can we visit? Combine Google Maps with the Life Cloud to document your classes visits to places, click here for more details. Location, Location, Location…create a postie where students describe a place and others have to input the answer.

26. Geography – Where in the world Ask students to print off a school where in the world poster and take the poster with then when they go out for a day out or on holiday. When you’re there, have their picture taken holding the poster in front of a famous landmark or somewhere special (If you have friends and family in other parts of the world, why not email them the poster for them to print out and have their picture taken with it?) Email the picture to the teacher, who will upload it to the class Google Map pages. You don’t have to be going abroad to take part in the challenge. Think about where you can take the poster in this country too. Maybe you could take it to the top of Mount Snowdon, Buckingham Palace or even up the Blackpool Tower! Take it with you wherever you go!