Personalising Learning Development and Research Hubs
Yorkshire and the Humber
Birley Community College Curriculum Hub
Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher
Ruth Sorsby – SSAT Regional Coordinator
‘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
PL – The gateways
Curriculum
Design&Organisation
New Technologies
Assessment for Learning
Workforce Reform
Student Voice
Learning to Learn
Advice&Guidance
Mentoring&Coaching
‘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
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
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 regionsOver 500 schools potentially!
Aims of D&R
• Knowledge creation or production
• Knowledge capture
• Knowledge transfer
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
Curriculum Hub Philosophy1. To establish effective regional inter-school networks to
promote greater and more effective personalisation
2. To identify and share best practice in curriculum design across the networks
3. To develop and innovate next practice across the networks
4. To share regional developments nationally with other regional Hubs
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
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
Establishing the Hub
Birley submitsPlan to coverall aspects ofcurriculum
Regional SSATschools invitedto participate
in Hub
Steering groupforms shares
experience andexpertise
Next practice todevelop frombest practice
within hub
Conference organised to share practice
with school not yet changedcurriculum
NetworkEstablished
and maintainedby Birley/hub
steering group
Key Hub Schools• Birley Community College, Sheffield
Pathways curriculum at KS4
• Oakwood TC, RotherhamAlternative provision at KS4
• Firth Park Community Arts College, SheffieldPathways and secure routes to KS5
• Outwood Grange School, WakefieldCompression of KS3, expansion of KS4
• Beckfoot School, BradfordEarly GCSE entry
• Kingstone School, BarnsleyThematic approaches to KS3
• Yewlands School, SheffieldThematic approaches to KS3
A. 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
Workshop/network opportunities
Contacts:Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher
Birley Community College
Thornbridge Avenue
Sheffield
S11 7LQ
Tel: 0114 2392531 Fax: 0114 2655034
Email: [email protected]
Ruth Sorsby – Regional Coordinator, Yorkshire and Humber
Tel: 01709 532705 Mob: 07734 814509
Email: [email protected]
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