Preparing for a rapidly changing world

When our current Year 1 cohort reach employable age, 80% of the jobs they will be doing do not even exist yet due to the rapid developments in technology.

Examples DVD players Medicine Travel Satellite TV Mobile Phones Computers & Internet

For Discussion With the employment market so open to change, what skills do we want Our Lady and St Gerard’s children to leave our school with?

Imagination, Purpose, Originality, Value.

Children’s Interests Computer games –Playstations etc. Cinema, films, cartoons etc. ‘Celebrities’ – Footballers, pop stars, movie heroes or heroines. TV (Loco parentis) – Soap operas, reality TV, X Factor etc. What do we, as teachers, do with this culture?

Excellence and Enjoyment Personalised learning. Embracing children’s interests. Engaging the whole child. ECM Enjoying and achieving through learning. Having FUN!

Examples of creativity Test out instructions by playing and making Stimulating starting points -Smell a scene Detective kits Sentence length - mood through music Walk through a story Feeling Taste Act out verbs, adverbs, sentences etc Narrative writing through dance

Retention Rates Lecture 5 % Reading 10% Audio-visual 20% Demonstrating 30% Discussion 50% Practice by doing 75% Teaching others 90%

What have other schools done? Used the children’s interests in their learning. Audited children’s different learning styles and preferences – VAK. Planned to include different styles. Introduced less traditional sports - Crown Green Bowling! See Grange Primary in Derbyshire.

Unusual pictures stimulate imagination

Good Friends!

A strange friendship!

Who’s that knocking at the door?

Something to think about!

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