Dissemination of Good Practice

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Dissemination of Good Practice 2005-2006 Action
Plan
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cITizenship Generations Together
A whole school e-learning project to raise
pupils awareness of how all ages can work
together and learn from one another.
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Introduction
Generations Together aims to broaden childrens
awareness of how people from different
generations can work and learn together. Many
changes in society have led to generations
frequently becoming segregated from one another -
especially younger and older people.  This
separation can lead to unrealistic, negative
stereotypes of whole generations and a decrease
in positive exchanges between them.  Yet these
separated generations do have resources of value
to each other. This intergenerational project is
an attempt to bring the generations together
again, improving understanding between them and
increasing the support they provide to one
another. It offers a win/win situation for
everyone involved. Although, in the first
instance, this is an ICT focused project, there
will be opportunities to extend into other areas,
such as history, maths, art and circle time.
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Specific Objectives/Targets
What are we aiming to achieve and by when?
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• Create a bank of pupil/teacher made resources
  for the various aspects of the intergenerational
  project. These will be produced and published
  by the school and available online and/or as
  paper copies.
• Create a bank of worksheets and activities to
  be used during the project and in future years.
  These will be saved in the Teacher Information
  area on the school network.
• Create an online environment for the
  Generations Together project. This will be
  for the school and its associates, accessed via
  the schools Intranet and website
  (www.comberps.newtownards.ni.sch.uk).
• Raise parental and wider community awareness of
  the project by issuing regular news bulletins.
  This will be done via the schools news sheets
  and through contact with churches and businesses
  in the town.
• Run ICT Skills courses, using pupils from Years
  6 as facilitators. The courses will target two
  community groups in particular Over 55s and
  Women Returning to Work. (N.B. This will be a
  central feature of the Generations Together
  project.)
• Link the project with the ongoing program of
  Positive Behaviour.
• The above will be achieved by June 2006.

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Baseline Reference Point
How well are we doing at the moment?
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• The school has strong links with churches and
  businesses in the Comber community. Support has
  been given and received over many years.
• There is school involvement with Senior
  Citizens e.g. visits to local residential homes
  by members of the choir, invitations to
  grandparents to talk to pupils about their lives
  and childhood memories etc.
• To date, the subject of Citizenship has not
  been formally addressed.
• Although the school has an Internet Café as
  part of its Dissemination of Good Practice
  project this year (2004-2005), it has not
  previously offered adult ICT skills classes.
• All classes regularly participate in Circle
  Time.
• SPOT (Super Pupil On Trust) has been part of
  our previous Dissemination of Good Practice
  projects.

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Success Criteria
How will we know if we have succeeded?
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• We will know we have succeeded when
• pupils and staff show enthusiasm for, and a
  positive attitude to, the Generations Together
  project.
• pupils make regular contributions to class
  output, both online and paper based.
• there is a bank of resources saved in the
  Teacher Information area of the school network
  and available for use in future years.
• there is a dedicated area (The Generations
  Together Zone) on the Intranet and website,
  consisting of website links, games, information
  and resources, relevant to the project.
• worksheets and activities relating to the
  project have been uploaded to the Teacher
  Resource Exchange as exemplars of good practice
  and feedback has been received from the
  moderators.

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• We will know we have succeeded when
• there is community involvement in the various
  activities.
• people register for the ICT courses and
  facilitators, who have received in-house
  training, are confident, competent and
  enthusiastic.
• there is a positive response from schools in
  the SEELB to the project information and sample
  activities sent to them.
• the project is sustainable.

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cITizenship Team

• ICT Coordinators
• History Coordinator
• Pastoral Care Coordinator
• Others

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Actions
What are we going to do in order to achieve our
objectives and the targets stated within our
success criteria?
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• Form a Generations Together Team consisting
  of ICT, History and Pastoral Care Coordinators
  to plan, monitor and evaluate the project.
• Form a Generations Together Project Group,
  drawn from Year 6, to act as facilitators for
  the ICT courses.
• Create a bank of worksheets and activities for
  pupils. Teachers will be given guidance re.
  topics, timescale etc. and provided with
  planning frameworks. These worksheets (with
  accompanying lesson plans) will be uploaded to
  the Generations Together folder saved in the
  Teacher Information area of the school network.
  The worksheets will also be accessible to pupils
  via a dedicated project area on the Intranet and
  Website and can be printed and completed to
  reinforce work done in class.
• Create a Generations Together Zone on the
  front page of the schools Intranet and Website.
  This will include interactive games to support
  the project, links to useful websites and
  printable worksheets.

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• Regularly feature pupils work in a gallery
  on the school Intranet and Website as a means of
  celebrating success.
• Take digital photographs of school events and
  activities linked to the project. These will be
  viewed in the Photo Album on the Intranet and
  Website by pupils, teachers, parents, friends of
  the school and members of the community.
• Train teachers and facilitators to use the new
  Interactive Whiteboard in the ICT Suite and help
  them appreciate that this is a valuable tool for
  the project.
• Establish the Super Pupil On Trust Scheme in
  Year 5.
• Design ICT Skills Courses to meet the
  particular needs of the target groups.
• Provide project facilitators with in-house
  training. This will include training in
  communication and listening skills, as well as
  ICT skills related to the course programme.
• Plan a unit of work for each year group at KS2
  (with a broader and more general one for KS1),
  e.g. using, as a starting point, ideas from the
  Help the Aged programme for schools.

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Units of Work
Year 5 Food Fitness Year 6 Money
Matters Year 7 Then Now KS1 Community
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Year 5 Unit of Work
THEME Food Fitness This is an
appropriate theme for Year 5 pupils, as it
links with their existing study of
Healthy Living. Pupils will compare their daily
requirements of food and exercise with those of
older people. Example activity Pupils will
design questionnaires to gather information from
parents and grandparents. This will be used to
create a database using Information Workshop
2000. They will also use the information to word
process case studies to make a book. Online
resources and interactive games will be used to
enrich and enhance learning.

• The Body
• Diet
• Food Groups
• Calories
• Exercise
• Case Studies

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Year 6 Unit of Work
THEME Money Matters This is an appropriate
theme for Year 6 pupils, as it links with their
participation in the Young Enterprise
scheme. Pupils will learn that keeping track of
their money is very important. They will also
learn that, as people get older, more money is
spent on essentials. After people retire, most of
their money comes from a pension. Example
activity Pupils will use a search engine to
gather information about pensions. What types of
pensions are there? How much is the State
Pension? In this unit of work, good use will be
made of Spreadsheets.

• Earning
• Budgeting
• Getting Older
• Pensions
• Case Studies

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Year 7 Unit of Work
THEME Then Now This is an
appropriate theme for Year 7 pupils, as it links
with their existing work on World War II and
their visit to the European war
cemeteries. Pupils will compare and contrast life
today with life during the war years. For
example, they will learn that more women went to
work because men were away at war and most older
people still lived with their families.
Nowadays, older people live more independently,
often in their own homes, families are usually
smaller and grandparents often look after
children when their parents are at work. Example
activity Pupils will publish their stories on
the BBCs WW2 Peoples War website. Good use
will also be made of PowerPoint.

• Wartime
• Living
• Family
• Facts
• Case Studies

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KS1 Unit of Work
THEME Community looking after each other
Pupils will learn the importance of helping
others in the local community and how many older
people are involved in voluntary work. They will
learn that good transport means people can travel
around easily, even if they live on their
own. Upper KS1 pupils will think about the issue
of isolation - how some older people live on
their own and feel cut off and lonely. How can
we, as individuals, or as a school, help? This
unit provides many opportunities for visits to
the school by members of the community and those
who work in the service industry.

• Helping Out
• Transport
• Family
• Isolation
• Case Studies

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Basic Computing Course

• Target Groups
• over 55s
• women returning to work

• Facilitators
• The best way to learn is to teach.
• pupils from Years 6
• trained by ICT Coordinator

Possible 8-10 Week Programme (adapted to meet the
needs of the target groups)

• Word Processing
• Desktop Publishing
• Presentations

• The Internet
• Spreadsheets
• Databases

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Monitoring
How are we going to monitor the implementation of
the programme?
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• Evidence collected by class teachers, ICT,
  Pastoral Care and History Coordinators.
• By means of work saved on disc in the
  Public folder of the school network and in
  class books. Printouts of work and displays,
  photo album and work gallery on Intranet and
  website etc.
• Feedback from course participants and
  those involved in various activities.
• Analysed by Project Team.
• Reported to Senior Management and
  Board of Governors.

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Evaluation
At the end of the implementation period of the
action plan how will we decide how successful we
have been?
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• We will evaluate our success by
• assessing the use of the ICT suite for all
  aspects of school learning,
  and especially Citizenship, in
  2005-2006.
• assessing the level of staff input into
  production of school-based
  resources to support the Generations
  Together project.
• assessing the use made of resources in the
  Generations Together Zone on the school Intranet
  and website.
• the level of community awareness of, and
  involvement in, the Generations Together
  project.
• the numbers registering for the ICT courses.
• pupils response to the various year group
  activities and the work
  produced.
• the response from other schools in the SEELB to
  information sent to them about the project.

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Support
What help is available?
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• School based inset with teachers
  and project facilitators to explain
  activities, software and use of
  Intranet/Internet.
• Inset training e.g. Interactive Whiteboard.
• Support from SEELB, Pastoral Care and
  ICT Advisors.
• Support from C2K Consultants and
  technical services.
• Advice from the Help the Aged schools team.

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Positive Behaviour
Super Pupil On Trust
SPOT AWARD
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SPOT AWARD
SPOT AWARD
Super Pupil On Trust

• Awarded to Year 5 pupils who are committed to
  observing all rules governing the use of
  computers in Comber Primary, including Internet
  safety.
• Will be granted permission to use the Computer
  Suite at lunchtimes to continue work or carry
  out independent research.
• This privilege is earned and will be withdrawn
  if trust is broken.