Latest Case Studies

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Date

School & Subject

Subject Coverage

June 2008

Key Stage 4 Curriculum Innovation at The Broxbourne School

Leadership - KS4

May 2008

Assessment

3 case studies for schools who have been awarded the Learning to Learn certificate in 2007.

Assessment

May 2008

Curriculum Initiatives at Bushey Meads

How Bushey Meads have implemented a new approach to the curriculum with new structures and working with staff.

Leadership

May 2008

Curriculum Initiatives at Turnford School

Implementing a vision for the curriculum.

Leadership

April 2008

Fleetville Junior School - First RE Day

Representatives from all six major religions participated in a whole school RE Day held at Fleetville Junior School. The RE Day consisted of each year group participating in activities and meeting visitors from the religions studied.

RE - KS2

April 2008

Therfield First School logoTherfield First School: Review of Art & Design Work in 2007
This review presented for the Governors and staff of the school drew together all the cross-curricular aspects of a wide variety of class and whole school activities throughout the year.

Art / Design & Technology / ICT / Literacy / Numeracy / History / Geography / RE / PSHE / Citizenship

February 2008

STASSH 'Internship Programme' for Senior Leaders

An internship programme for leaders in schools where they can spend a week in another institution gaining practical experience of leadership and management and providing support and expertise to the receiving institution.

Leadership

February 2008

Lead Learner Programme - Knight Templar School

The Lead Learner role enables staff to develop the leadership and management skills expected of staff at a more senior level.

Leadership

February 2008

Sandon JMI School logoSandon JMI School & Francis Combe School
Podcasting, or the delivery of radio-style broadcasts across the internet, is rapidly gaining popularity in schools. It offers an engaging, creative and exciting way to use ICT in different curriculum areas, as well as helping youngsters to develop a number of key skills.Francis Combe School logo

Podcasting in Hertfordshire Schools
All key stages

February 2008

The Sele School logo...The Sele School - The Spirit of Sport
On the 4-6th July 2007, the second anniversary of the announcement that London had been selected to stage the 2012 Olympics, The Sele School hosted a mini Olympiad.  Visiting teams came from Hertford’s twin and associate towns in France, Germany and Poland. More...

KS3 Olympic Sports.
International Dimension with France, Germany and Poland.

December 2007

Support Staff - Performance Management

4 case studies of how some Hertfordshire schools implement Support Staff Performance Management and CPD. 

Induction
Performance Management
CPD & Training

November 2007

Cunningham Hill Infants School

Drawing of a KiwiVisualisers We began the new Autumn Term with plenty of enthusiasm for our new resource and were keen to introduce it to Year 2. This was where the WOW factor came in. All the children were very enthusiastic and wanted to try all sorts of ideas on the visualiser.

Use of Visualisers for cross curricular at Foundation / KS1

November 2007

Kings Langley Secondary School
Kings Langley Secondary school logoModelling does not come easily for many students. The concepts are much too abstract. You ask them to work out how much profit they will make if they buy roses for 50p each and sell 20 for 90p. The majority of students will have no problem in giving the right answer. Teaching and learning becomes more challenging when you ask students to translate the simple calculation into (A2-A1)*B3. There has to be a better way of covering modelling...

KS3
ICT Game Authoring/ Extended Projects/
Modelling

October 2007

Cunningham Hill Infants SchoolVoting System...
For this trial the CPS voting system was loaned from Hertsfordshire Development Centre. 26 Year two children were involved in using the voting systems as a tool for learning with the aim of finding out about the possibilities within a Key Stage 1 curriculum.

Voting System at KS1 for cross curricular work

October 2007

St Lukes School
Sony Playstation portableIt is estimated that today 95% of young people own some form of mobile technology. This may be a mobile phone, a handheld gaming device, an MP3 player or a combination of all three. It is a technology aimed at young people, that young people know, and that has become a ubiquitous part of their lives, used to communicate, create, record and share.

KS3 & KS4
Numeracy, ICTAC
Special Needs

October 2007

Francis Bacon Maths & Computing CollegeFrancis Bacon Maths & Computing College
A range of learning and teaching strategies are being combined at Francis Bacon Maths and Computing College to enable students to work independently within ICT yet at the same time receive very structured guidance on their current attainment and how to progress.

KS3 & KS4
Personalised Learning and Assessment within ICT

 

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