Personalising Learning
Development and Research Hubs
Yorkshire and the Humber
Birley Community College
Curriculum Hub
Andy Ireland – Assistant Headteacher
Ruth Sorsby – SSAT Regional Coordinator
‘Personalised learning demands that every
aspect of teaching and support is
designed around a pupil’s needs…’
David Miliband, January 2004
The challenge is to meet more needs
of more students more fully than in the
past
PL – The gateways
Student Voice
Design&Organisation
Workforce Reform
Mentoring&Coaching
Advice&Guidance
Assessment for Learning
Learning to Learn
New Technologies
Curriculum
‘The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
works to give practical support to the
transformation of secondary education in
England by building and enabling a world-class
network of innovative, high performing
secondary schools in partnership with business
and the wider community’
by schools for schools
D & R Networks 1
5 innovation networks in 11 regions led by
a hub school
Resources
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•£6000
Student voice
•Regional Coordinators
Learn to learn
•Developing Leaders
Curriculum
•ICT infrastructure
New technologies
Assessment for learning
D & R Networks 2
Four networks
• A gateway-specific regional network
i.e. a hub and its local partners
• A gateway-specific national network
i.e. all the regional hubs for that gateway
• A regional hub network
i.e. the region’s hubs for each gateway
• A national hub network
i.e. all hubs of all gateways in all regions
Over 500 schools potentially!
Aims of D&R
• Knowledge creation or production
• Knowledge capture
• Knowledge transfer
Strategy
• lateral transfer of good practice
• new practice through development and
research
• teacher-led, school based
• no top-down, quick fix solutions
Doing things differently in order to do
them better
Curriculum Hub Philosophy
1.
To establish effective regional inter-school networks to
promote greater and more effective personalisation
2.
To identify and share best practice in curriculum design
across the networks
3.
To develop and innovate next practice across the
networks
4.
To share regional developments nationally with other
regional Hubs
Background to Birley
• 2000 – Designated specialist Technology College status
• 2001 – Introduced first vocational qualifications in KS4 (part 1
GNVQ ICT)
• 2002 – Full, intermediate GNVQ in Science and ICT introduced
• 2003 – Full Pathways curriculum introduced to KS4
• 2006 – GNVQ successors – BTEC, OCR National, DiDA, NVQ
integrate into pathways
• 2000 5+ A*-C GCSE – 35%
• 2004 5+ A*-C GCSE – 52%
• 2005 5+ A*-C GCSE – 58 %
In top 100 most improved schools
• Demonstrable curriculum change management at KS4
Background to Birley - Pathways
• Pathway 1: 10 or 11 GCSEs (some do triple science) +ECDL+
(some able engineers do Applied GCSE in engineering as a double
award)
• Pathway 2: One of four GNVQs (or now, their successors) + 6/7
GCSEs +ECDL for most
• Pathway 2a: Asdan (Cope), NVQ1 (one day at Sheffield College)
and 5/6 GCSEs + ECDL(or similar)
• Pathway 3: Asdan (Cope), NVQ1 or similar (external),3 GCSE’s and
work based learning + ECDL (or similar)
Pathways has now become established in many schools particularly
across the SSAT network.
The Hub needs to broaden its focus to cover KS3, KS5 and alternative
approaches
Establishing the Hub
Birley submits
Plan to cover
all aspects of
curriculum
Regional SSAT
schools invited
to participate
in Hub
Steering group
forms shares
experience and
expertise
Network
Established
and maintained
by Birley/hub
steering group
Conference
organised to
share practice
with school not
yet changed
curriculum
Next practice to
develop from
best practice
within hub
Key Hub Schools
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Birley Community College, Sheffield
Pathways curriculum at KS4
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Oakwood TC, Rotherham
Alternative provision at KS4
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Firth Park Community Arts College, Sheffield
Pathways and secure routes to KS5
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Outwood Grange School, Wakefield
Compression of KS3, expansion of KS4
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Beckfoot School, Bradford
Early GCSE entry
•
Kingstone School, Barnsley
Thematic approaches to KS3
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Yewlands School, Sheffield
Thematic approaches to KS3
Workshop/network opportunities
A. Establishing and managing
pathways at KS4
B. Wider qualification choice at KS4
C. Progression to post 16 with
vocational courses
D. 2 year KS3, 3 year KS4, Y9 GCSE
entry
E. Pedagogy driven curricula in Y7,
F. Changes to the Science Curriculum
at Key Stage 4
Contacts:
Andy Ireland –
Assistant Headteacher
Birley Community College
Thornbridge Avenue
Sheffield
S11 7LQ
Tel: 0114 2392531
Fax: 0114 2655034
Email: aireland@birleycc.sheffield.sch.uk
Ruth Sorsby – Regional Coordinator, Yorkshire and Humber
Tel: 01709 532705
Email: ruths@ssatrust.org.uk
Mob: 07734 814509