When making use of this presentation as a CPD resource
you may wish to consider the following reflective
questions
• How can you cluster experiences and outcomes into meaningful groupings to provide
appropriate and exciting contexts for learning?
• How are you providing opportunities to allow for breadth, challenge and application in
the learning experiences?
• What range of learning activities could you use more effectively to help to develop
young people’s problem solving and higher order thinking skills?
• How have you provided opportunity for personalisation and choice in your lesson
planning?
• What types of evidence can you gather to support learning?
‘Have you thought about...’ opportunities have been included in speaker notes for
personal reflection.
Enhancing experiences and raising
standards through the experiences and
outcomes
Expressive arts
Points to consider
• How do you share knowledge and understanding of
expectations?
• How do you ensure that assessment supports
learning and teaching?
• How do I deliver CfE expressive arts without the
resources?
Support
Glow
Glow is transforming the way that the curriculum is delivered in Scotland. It breaks down
geographical and social barriers and provides the tools to ensure a first-class education for
Scotland.
Glow provides:
• A trusted and safe environment for pupils, practitioners and parents
• A space to create personalised programmes of work and share thinking and curricular resources
• A variety of online tools to enhance learning experiences
• Virtual learning to share information and take part in a lesson
• Tools to enable you to communicate and collaborate across the network
• Communities of practice that offer practitioners rich opportunities to share and collaborate
• Innovation in learning and teaching approaches by engaging and immersing young people in
powerful and relevant learning experiences
• Motivation and support for individualised learning, personalisation and choice.
What is the NAR?
The NAR will provide:
• Support for assessment in the context of CfE, NQ and
national monitoring (SSLN) arrangements
• Examples of assessment approaches and evidence relating
to experiences and outcomes across all curriculum areas,
stages and levels
• Examples and guidance for CPD in assessment
• Initial focus was on literacy, numeracy and health and
wellbeing across learning; next phase – curriculum
• Opportunities for professionals to design examples of
assessment and contribute to the NAR
• In time, opportunities for pupils to engage in self and peer
assessment.
Air Iomlaid (On Exchange)
Johnny Gailey, The Fruitmarket Gallery
Anne MacPhail, Tollcross Primary School
Holly McLeod, Tollcross Primary School
Somhairle MacLeoid, Tollcross Primary
School
Opportunities:
• A coherent approach to planning the
curriculum, learning, teaching and assessment
• Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing
embedded throughout curriculum delivery
Through learning in the expressive arts young people can:
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be creative and express themselves in different ways
experience enjoyment through creative and expressive presentation
develop important skills, both those which are specific to expressive arts
and those which are transferable
develop an appreciation of aesthetic and cultural values.
What are the features of effective learning and teaching in
expressive arts?
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active involvement in creative activities
opportunities to present to an audience
partnerships with professional artists
connecting with young people’s experience
appropriate and effective use of technology
collaborative and independent learning
establishing links with the wider curriculum
opportunities to analyse, explore and reflect
Two schools – Tollcross Primary
School, Edinburgh, and
Bun-sgoil Shlèite, Skye.
Sixty-four core pupils (P4–P7 in
Sleat, P6/P7 in Tollcross) with
additional groups in each school.
Two teams of artists, with
a lead artist, Julie Brook,
spanning both sites.
The pupils were given the task to investigate their physical,
linguistic and virtual environments.
Mar – Aug 2009: Weekly workshops in Edinburgh and
Skye.
Skye exchange
Edinburgh exchange
Charcoal drawings
animation
Education
Edinburgh – 11 schools – 299 pupils
Skye – 8 primary schools – 138 pupils
Total – 437 primary schoolchildren
Curriculum for Excellence
– principles
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challenge and enjoyment
breadth
progression
depth
personalisation and choice
coherence
relevance
Air Iomlaid
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Air Iomlaid – Glow Group on Glow
http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/air-iomlaid
http://air-iomlaid-english.blogspot.com/
http://air-iomlaid-gaidhlig.blogspot.com/