Leadership
Heads of Science Conference
This is an annual event in the Autumn term. The agenda reflects latest developments and initiatives in science education and provides an opportunity for discussion and networking between subject leaders. An exhibition of exam boards, publishers and our partners is available for browsing.
The next conference will be on:
Subject Leader's Development Meetings (SLDMs)
These are a mechanism for disseminating the messages of the Secondary National Strategy to all secondary schools. Subject leaders will be invited to attend these in the Spring and Summer terms please look out for fliers in school.
The next meeting will be:
Reviews from SLD Meetings
SLDM 15th May 2008 new
There was a good turnout for the Subject Leader Development Meeting on 15th May 2008. This table leads you to all of the major documents used in the day. |
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The course powerpoint and associated documentation: |
Strategy Training Materials for Subject Leader Development Meeting 15th May 2008
Meeting Presentation
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The summary of the exercise based upon the Europe-wide report on Science Education is published: |
Recommendations from European science report
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The results of the KS4 evaluation starter activity: |
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The Sharing Good Practice section of the day was very well received and there were some excellent ideas: |
New KS3 Curriculum
Human, Plant and Animal Behaviour Booklets from Norfolk County council Consultants were distributed to assist with planning to teach this strand in the new KS3 curriculum.
Peter Hart asked for ideas on Bias to help in the production of Hertfordshire’s booklet on this subject which is developing apace and will be published shortly to assist with planning to teach this skill in the new KS3 curriculum.
Peter Nickson, Mount Grace, talked through the use of Upd8/Wikied as a tool to write a contextual and exciting new curriculum:
Ruth Evans, Adeyfield, talked through her school’s approach to the new KS3.
KS4
Louise Baldwin gave a PowerPoint presentation about Marlborough’s experience of delivering the Science BTEC.
Peter Hart fed back the findings from the KS4 evaluation survey which was done as a starter activity for the day.
General
Dave Corbett (on behalf of Tom Wright) showed the excellent resources (flash/java animations) on:
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A good portion of the day was spent on lesson planning and the materials that we used can be found in the ‘Lesson Planning and Design’ section of this website. |
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We regret to announce that, due to technical and moderation difficulties, we are now unable to host the New KS3 Wiki mentioned at the SLDM but would encourage all Herts Science Teachers to sign up to the Herts Email discussion board (Herts-Sci_Net) |
Join by visiting the link below from a school-based PC: 
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SLDM 27 February 2008
Please see the key messages which outlines the different sessions and will help you negotiate the other materials. |
Subject |
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Key messages from the SLDMs |
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Levels and Grades related to Bloom's Taxonomy |
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Going for Gold: Securing attainment |
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Creating a progress
culture |
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Data |
Advanced use of Excel Spreadsheets for Pupil Tracking
SLDM Data Excel Training Basic
SLDM Data Excel Training Advanced |
GCSE Science 2006 |
Negatives relating to introduction
Positives relating to introduction |
Retention |
Good ideas for retention
Issues with retention
Scenarios and Action Plans
School and departmental framework for retaining staff |
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