'Each Child Capable of Anything'

Our staff meeting this week was based on continuing to develop our ideas on how pupils will be progressing through the new curriculum and what this will look like. We watched a summary of Tim Oates, chair of the expert panel reviewing the new curriculum, speech on assessment below.

We were helped by an article called 'The Ripple Effect' which suggested the following 3 stages to structure learning: 

· New Learning - beginning to grasp new concepts, skills and knowledge
· Consolidation- carefully scaffolding tasks to allow practising and working within these areas
· Appliction – independence and choice leading to mastery so pupils are secure

Following a discussion around some samples of work the teachers had brought with them, we decided upon our next steps to think about:

· Developing sequences of learning to structure deeper learning. Does this happen in a lesson or across a series of lessons? A week? A term?

· Planning opportunities for the steps. We need to use the stages to help us support learning - is it a new learning lesson? How often is it completely new learning?

· Task design. What do activities look like for the stages? Would you see all three stages in the same lesson? Would different groups be at different stages?