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SUCCESSFUL SCIENCENetwork Meeting May 22nd 2014
Welcome
Overview for the afternoon…-Session 1: Catch-up
-Session 2: ResourcesBreak
Session 3: Outdoor science-Session 4: Assessment recap
Dates for diary
Session 1:
Catch-up
Where is your
school now?
Session 2:
Resources
Each table will make a folder of resources for a phase:Y1/2 (KS1), Y3/4 (LKS2) or Y5/6 (UKS2)
Task 1:Search internet websites for current resources for your given phase. Save to the phase folder on the Shared
area.My Computer/Common (O)/Teachers/Core 4
Science/ResourcesTask 2:
Use key vocabulary for each unit in your phase to create 5/6 Bingo Card templates
Task 3:Produce a list of useful websites for your phase.
Split into Teacher Resourcesand Pupil Resources (e.g. interactive games/ activities)
BREAK
Session 3:
Outdoor Science
“The study of biology, geology and the rest is a living experience, and without fieldwork it can be (and often is) killed stone dead.”
ASE: ‘Outdoor Science’
• When planned and implemented well, learning outside the classroom contributed significantly to raising standards and improving pupils’ personal, social and emotional development. • Learning outside the classroom was most successful when it was an integral element of long-term curriculum planning and closely linked to classroom activities.
Ofsted: ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’
Outdoor places:• Middleport pottery are opening on the 1st July. They are the only company
in the UK to do transferring. The factory is full working and children can observe the start to the end of the pottery making process. 50% is sold in the UK and 50% is sold abroad. It is situated by the canal.
• Trentham Estate; Lots of Science links- One being the fairies- making fairy puppets linking to shadows. Flowers- seasonal change.
• Gladstone pottery museum - properties of materials.• Country trust- Access to farms for free. http://www.countrytrust.org.uk/
Useful Websites:• Farm to Fork with Tesco
http://www.eathappyproject.com/farm-to-fork/?gclid=CJDp8bLrur4CFaXHtAodEkAAHQ
• STEMET website- where schools can apply for a Scientist to come into their school free of charge.
• Good website for experiments- http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/national-science-engineering-week/download-activities-competitions-and-quizzes/activity-packs• Royal microscope society- loan microscopes free of charge plus free delivery
and collection.
Session 4:
Assessment
Recap
DFE DOCUMENT
HTTPS://WWW.GOV.UK/GOVERNMENT/CONSULTATIONS/NEW-NATIONAL-CURRICULUM-PRIMARY-ASSESSMENT-AND-ACCOUNTABILITY
THE LONG AWAITED REFORMS TO PRIMARY ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY WERE PUBLISHED 27TH MARCH. HERE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT:
• CURRENT BALANCE OF TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND TESTING WILL REMAIN.
• WRITING WILL CONTINUE TO BE TEACHER ASSESSED FOR KS2 SATS.
• THE SPELLING, PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR TEST WILL NOT COUNT TOWARDS THE FLOOR STANDARD; THE WRITING ASSESSMENT WILL.
• KS1 WILL BE EXTERNALLY SET, INTERNALLY MARKED AND THEN MODERATED.
• THE LANGUAGE ON 'SECONDARY READINESS' HAS BEEN TONED DOWN CONSIDERABLY.
• NO DECILE RANKING OF PUPILS.
• THE GOVERNMENT DOES INTEND TO INTRODUCE A RECEPTION BASELINE. THIS WILL BE TEACHER-ADMINISTERED IN THE FIRST TERM.
has met the new expected standard.
Current Post-reform
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum-assessments-test-frameworks
SCIENCE ASSESSMENT!
Thoughts?
Dates for your diary: “Assessing Science in the New
Curriculum” Twilight session with Ed Walsh Assessment adviser for Cornwall specialist in Science
Free Session – Belgrave Hub June 26th 4- 6p.m.Please book: [email protected]
Assessment Without Levels Chris Quigley 10th July StokeChris Quigley Education Ltd [[email protected]
Keele Science Learning Centre
Questionnaire
