Staff Deve As we venture into the phase of Core Professional Development and Learning (CPDL). The March Staff development day was a look into how far we have come and the journey ahead. With much promise on breakfast and a vision for a collaborative chomp, chatter and cheerful informal education chewing of the fat, apologetically many were faced with the prospect of chewing their own arm as a waylaid delivery and our very own edition of explosive caffeine became the special of the day. Hopefully unperturbed by this and understandably disgruntled (whilst hopefully arm intact at the hasty ordering of pastries), staff resiliently proceeded to their whole school teams. One school, one vision, and one subject is always a hurdle when traditionally segmented. We are in a fortunate position at BSB, that not only can we discuss learning journeys on one site but we see them all the time. We have opportunities everyday to coordinate collaboration and observe our colleagues ‘in their setting’. Opportunities provided through
Information Handling in Science
CPDL days have ensured that we can now discuss and create our own whole school subject visions. The discussions around the Spiral Curriculum, excited chitter around the prospect of subject-specific whole school-wide events were lively and exciting in most areas and we look forward to seeing how this enhances outside of the development days as we start to see subject pairings beginning to emerge as subject teams become more familiar with one another and put names to faces and links to keystages. Time at events is always an issue; as anyone who has sat through an all you can eat buffet will testify, too much and people become overwhelmed, too little and people leave feeling they want more sustenance. A larger plate means you can taste more, a smaller plate means more revisits and eventually, it overflows but I digress. Pleasingly, the efforts to greater communication around the event from the feedback overall seemed appreciated and whilst the contention of the sneaky drop-down box caught some people out,
21st Century Skills (Workshop in Arabic)
Paul Travers
Howaida Ibrahim
How to use various types of graphs to demonstrate and display results of pupil investigations.
Recognize the skills of the twenty-first century and how to apply them during the lesson and talk about the advantages of inverted education
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