Primary National Strategy

Primary Strategy Learning Networks 2005 - 2006

Primary Strategy Learning Networks

Schools Involved in Primary Strategy Learning Networks Prompts for Evaluating Action Plans

Schools Involved in Primary Strategy Learning Networks

Sledmere C of E (VC) Primary School
Beswick and Watton Primary School
Garton Primary School
Wetwang Primary School
Middleton on the Wolds Primary School
Langtoft Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

To enhance the learning and teaching across the network focusing on speaking andlistening by extending experiences which broaden the understanding and knowledge ofmulti-cultural Britain and global awareness.

Rawcliffe Primary School
Hook CE VC Primary School
Airmyn Park Primary School
Cowick CE VC Primary School
Pollington-Balne CE Primary School
Rawcliffe Bridge Primary School
Swinefleet Primary School
Reedness Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

The development and use of strategies to access speaking and listening skills to impact on learning, initially in maths, but then on all areas of the curriculum.

Barmby on the Marsh Primary School
Bubwith Primary School
Eastrington Primary School
Gilberdyke Primary School
Howden CE Infant School
Howden Junior School
Newport Primary School
Snaith Junior School

Pupil Learning Focus

To empower children to be in charge of their own learning through a skills-based curriculum.

Anlaby Infant School
Anlaby Junior School
Anlaby Acre Heads Primary School
Kirk Ella St Andrew’s Primary School
Springhead Primary School
Willerby Carr Lane Infant School
Willerby Carr Lane Junior School
Wolfreton School

Pupil Learning Focus

To raise attainment and expectations in mathematics by further developing problem-solving skills.

Nafferton Primary School
Cherry Burton
Driffield Infants
Skirlaugh CE VC Primary School
Tickton CE VC Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

To raise attainment in non-fiction writing.

Hornsea Community Primary School
Brandsburton Primary School
Hornsea Burton Primary School
Leven CE VC Primary School
Riston CE VC Primary School
Sigglesthorne CE VC Primary School
Skipsea Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

The focus will be on the development of thinking skills - 'LEARNING TO LEARN' - across the curriculum. This will include:

1. Creative thinking skills:

• generating and extending ideas;
• hypothesising;
• applying imagination;
• looking for alternative innovative outcomes.

2. Enquiry skills:

• asking relevant questions;
• posing and defining problems;
• planning what to do;
• thinking how to research;
• predicting outcomes;
• anticipating consequences;
• testing conclusions;
• improving ideas.

3. Reasoning skills:

• giving reasons for opinions and actions;
• making deductions;
• explaining what they think;
• making judgements and decisions informed by reason or evidence.

4. Information processing skills:

• locating and processing information;
• sorting;
• classifying;
• sequencing;
• comparing and contrasting;
• analysing relationships.

5. Evaluating skills:

• evaluating information;
• judging the value of what they read, hear or do;
• developing criteria for judging the value of their own or others work or ideas.

Swinemoor Junior School
Swinemoor Infant School
Bilton Community Primary School
King’s Mill School
Wawne Primary School
St John of Beverley RC VA Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

To improve standards in writing by addressing section 3 of Conditions for Learning i.e. looking at effective teaching and its impact on learning.

Wold Newton Foundation School
Bempton Primary School
Boynton Primary School
Flamborough CE VC Primary School
Gembling Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

To improve writing through ICT within specific contextual cross-curricular activities (literacy through ICT activities which are part of the local curriculum and thus meaningful to the pupils involved. For example, creating a publicity brochure for Wold Newton village as part of a local study.)

St Martin’s C of E (VA) Primary School
Barmby Moor C of E Primary School
Bishop Wilton C of E VC Primary School
Bugthorpe of E VC Primary School
Newbald Primary School
Skidby C of E VC Primary School
St Mary’s and St Joseph’s RC VA Primary School
St Mary’s Market Weighton RC VA Primary School
Sutton Upon Derwent C of E Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

To develop specific areas of learning in mathematics that staff have identified as an 'issue', 'problem', 'cause for concern', 'a traditionally difficult concept' or 'area that needs attention'.

Parkside Primary School
Boothferry Primary School
Pasture Primary School
Kingsway Primary School
Marshlands Primary School
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School

Pupil Learning Focus

How can we use a multi-sensory approach (VAK), utilising the principles of accelerated learning to help pupils in year 4 develop skills in problem solving in mathematics?

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Prompts for Evaluating Action Plans

The key consideration when evaluating an action plan is that what it proposes, in particular with reference to the pupil learning focus is relevant, coherent and manageable.

Pupil Learning Focus

Is the pupil learning focus clear and achievable?

• Does the pupil learning focus derive from the network’s analysis of its data?
• Is the potential impact on children’s learning evident? Will the network have an impact on standards?
• Is the pupil learning focus accessible to all those involved in the network including the children?
• Is it clear which children will be involved?
• Do all elements of the plan clearly relate to the pupil learning focus?

Success Criteria

• Are the success criteria explicitly linked to the pupil learning focus?
• Are they clearly stated?
• Do they clearly cover quantitative and qualitative measures of children’s learning?
• Do they include key indicators for adult learning?

Network Focus, Form and Structure

• Is the process of working together central to the action plan? eg opportunities: to work in each other’s schools; for joint CPD activities
• Are the roles and responsibilities within the network clear?
• Do the proposed actions seem relevant to the intended outcomes?
• Are opportunities to disseminate the learning across the network identified?
• Do the structures allow for flexibility?
• Are there evaluation points built in?
• Does the plan allow for activity to be tailored to the needs of different groups within the network?

New Opportunities for Adult Learning

• Is the planned adult learning clearly linked to addressing the pupil learning focus?
• Does the network provide a new or extended adult learning approach? E.g. enquiry, joint planning, observation and coaching.
• Does the network make use of internal expertise?

Network Leadership and Management

• Is it clear how network leadership will be organized in the first year?
• Will it be representative of the network as a whole initiate activities, support communication and organise resources?
• Is it clear how the network leadership will monitor the network’s impact on learning?

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Weblink: www.learningnetwork.ik.org

Learning Network website for the Pocklington area schools with Skidby

 

For further information about Primary Strategy Learning Networks please contact:

Mike Furbank, Head of Improvement and Learning
Tel: (01482) 392402
E-mail: mike.furbank@eastriding.gov.uk