1. Engaging and Inspiring Learners through a Collaborative Approach to School-to-School Working 

2. Aims:
Promote school-to-school working through collaborative school-to-school projects.
Develop effective teaching and learning through engaging themes.
Develop purposeful DCF rich tasks.
Build capacity for schools to develop collaborative projects.

3. Developing links for school-to-school collaboration
Cluster Groups
SIG Groups
Developing links for school-to-school collaboration
Central South Consortium
Wales and the World World

4. Blitz: Wales at War
Use digital technology to raise standards in Literacy and Numeracy
Promote school-to-school working – within SIG group.
Create an innovative and engaging history topic, focusing on World War Two, to develop LNF and subject specific skills.
Develop teaching and learning and digital competency through using Minecraft and Hwb tools.

5. Minecraft Map of WW2 Community
Blitz: Wales at War
World War Two Theme
Shared Experiences
Shared Hwb+ Site
Minecraft Map of WW2 Community

6. The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl
Collaborative project involving 95 schools from around the world.
Develop reading and writing through engaging with a range of Roald Dahl’s texts and create Minecraft settings based on the texts
Create and build brand new Roald Dahl settings to feature in a presentation to celebrate Roald Dahl’s 100th birthday.
Collaborate using Hwb tools - Office 365 and Hwb+
Create multimedia presentations to share their work.

7. Minecraft Education Edition
The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl
Hwb Network
Hwb +
Minecraft Education Edition
Office 365:
OneNote
Class Notebook
Developing Writing

8. School-to School Working
Develop Engaging and Inspiring Projects
DCF:
Interacting and Collaborating/
Producing
School-to School Working
Successful Futures:
Develop Four Purposes
Cross Curriculum Responsibilities
AoLE Development
Sharing Good Practice

9. “Relevant, challenging, exciting and engaging experiences.”
Some words taken from pupils and teachers involved in the projects

10. Experiences Pupil Visits Online collaboration Outside agencies
Teacher Network
Will Discuss what we did (the experiences)
So….
Digital leaders visits
Online collaboration using shared Hwb page
Visits to school for Technocamps workshop
Work with turnipstar fish
Teacher network established to share resources etc..

11. Impact Pupils School Development Broadened Horizons Partnerships
Pupils: increased confidence, development of skills (Cross-curricular), Oracy L %, pupil voice (digital leaders)

12. Pupils Confidence Development of skills Oracy L5+ 61.5% Pupil Voice
Knowledge/ skills learnt from each other
Oracy evidence – the evidence was there to award a higher % of pupils with L5+
Development of Digital Leaders – whole school impact

13. School Development SIP Staff Development DCF School:
impact was measured (aside from Oracy) positive impact on targets within SIP (e.g development of the use of Hwb)
Staff knowledge and most importantly confidence in the use of ICT improved
Step towards meeting the requirements of the DCF

14. Broadened Horizons Successful Futures Need for more!
A shift away from “one of course” more to collaborative development
Pupils and teachers ‘hooked’ by this collaborative approach, it has made learning experiences meaningful
The shift from to “facilitator” e.g. use of Minecraft and other emerging technology

15. Partnerships
SIG
Cluster
Wider networking
Outside agencies

16. Engaging and Inspiring Learners through a Collaborative Approach to School-to-School Working
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