Does every child matter at Cinnamon Brow Church of England Primary School

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Does every child matter at Cinnamon Brow Church
of England Primary School?
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The research team

• We, as a class decided on the topic for our
  research of Every Child Matters (but with some
  help from Mr Jones!)
• Mr Jones helped us to organise our time and
  trained us up in how to interview children,
  teachers and observe lessons.

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Our school is very cool!

• Friends
• Teachers
• Subjects
• Lessons
• Its what we do that counts
• Responsibility
• SHEEP

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Our Focus

• So does Every Child Really matter at Cinnamon
  Brow Church of England Primary School? (lets see!)

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Why did we choose this focus?

• Do our teachers understand about Every Child
  Matters?
• We want to use this project to help evaluate our
  school and how good we are.
• Mr Jones has spoken to us quite a lot about Every
  Child Matters and we wanted to understand how
  its going to help us.
• Oh and Mr Jones said it would be a good idea!

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So what does Every Child Matters mean?

• At our school we have the right to be SAFE
• At our school we have the right to be HEALTHY
• At our school we have the right to ENJOY and
  ACHIEVE
• At our school we have the right to learn about
  ECONOMIC WELL BEING
• At our school we have the right learn about
  making POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS

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Safe Research Team

• Lauren Johnston
• Alicia Johnston
• Ainsley Buckley

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How good are we at keeping children safe?

• We talk about the school rules to make sure they
  are fair and appropriate
• We look after each other and make sure that
  everyone is happy
• We never open outside doors to anyone.
• Our teachers always do things called risk
  assessments when we go on school trips
• We asked a sample of 30 children if they felt
  safe at school, 5 children said they did not.
  What will we do about this?

• Weve realised that to be safe we need to learn
  how to be safe
• We keep safe in school by
• Knowing the school rules
• Listening to teachers and adults
• Making sure that all outside doors are kept
  locked
• Stranger danger talks

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Healthy Research Team

• Chantelle Whalley
• Aidan Ward
• Tom Greaves
• Sarah Bevan Lewis

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How good are we at keeping children Healthy?

• We talk about Healthy lifestyles in PSHE and have
  weeks called Healthy Week
• We have climbing equipment to keep us on our
  toes!
• We have lots of after school clubs to keep us
  healthy
• We must be a healthy school because we have the
  Healthy Schools Award!!
• We looked at a sample of 30 lunch boxes 18 lunch
  boxes were what we thought to be healthy. What
  else do we need to do to help children bring
  healthy lunch boxes?

• We encourage children to have healthy lunches
• We make sure that we do 2 lessons of PE every
  week
• We run around at playtimes!
• Key Stage One children have fruit and vegetables
  at break times
• Key Stage Two children have healthy tuck
• The dinner ladies make sure we have at least one
  vegetable at dinnertimes
• All children are encouraged to drink water
  through the day
• Children have rest breaks (Brain Gym) during
  lessons found by observing lessons

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Enjoy and Achieve Research Team

• Hannah Grant
• Callum Halls
• Elliot McKenzie
• Kiera Gardener

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How good are we in making children enjoy and
achieve at our school?

• Enjoyment
• We observed lessons in school and found lots of
  interesting things! lesson observation BB
• lesson observation JB
• Mrs Sweeney also observes lessons to make sure
  teachers are planning interesting lessons
• We interviewed some children, this is they said
• We have got better at attendance, we love the
  assembly so its obvious we enjoy coming to
  school!
• We like our teachers because they try their best
• We have fun

• We laugh a lot in school. We think this means we
  are happy and enjoy being there
• We think the teachers look after our school and
  enjoy doing lessons
• We have lots of friends
• Our teachers have to make sure our lessons are
  exciting or Mrs Sweeney will tell them off!
• We asked a sample of 30 children whether they
  enjoy school, 30 children said they did!

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Continued..

• Achieve
• We found all pupils try their best and are
  successful in their targets and goals
• We have to do SATs
• Targets in lessons
• Our own goals
• We all live under the same sky, but we don't all
  have the same horizon. Mr. Jones keeps saying
  this to us, so we thought wed better mention it!
• We asked a sample of 30 children if they thought
  they achieved well at school, 21 children said
  they thought they did. Why do 9 children think
  they dont?

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Economic Well Being Research Team

• Joe Bibby
• Kerri Mather
• Sadie Malkin
• Jack McCullogh

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How good are we at teaching and Learning Economic
Well being?

• Mr Jones said this one was the hardest to do!
• We believe we hit this by
• Having to write a letter of application to work
  in the school office
• Having an interview to get a job
• Selling tuck at playtimes
• We are given responsibilities around school
• We can become members of our school council to
  have a greater pupil voice
• We asked a sample of 30 children whether they
  thought our teachers prepared us for getting jobs
  when we leave school, 24 children said they did.
  Why are 6 children unsure about having the
  ability to get a job when they leave school?

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Making a positive Contribution Research Team

• Eleanor Leach
• Nicole Hodges
• Dean Cobb
• Sean Jackson
• Declan Carter

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How good are we at teaching and learning about
making a positive contribution?

• We found that all children want to take
  responsibility for our school, we should all have
  jobs to do
• School council we think this could be called
  Pupil Voice
• Playground Leaders
• Numeracy day coaching by Year 6 children
• Lunchtime monitors
• Blue and Yellow badge holders
• Working in the office at dinnertimes
• Responsibilities in class like register monitors
• We found that children all through school like to
  be given responsibility.
• We also found that some children said it made
  them behave better
• Through our research there is something we want
  all teachers to do for us. We found that all
  children we interviewed thought the important
  jobs were always given to the same children and
  some children were never given jobs. We would
  like everyone to have a fair chance. Please dont
  give the same children all of the jobs. Out of a
  sample of 30 children, 30 children said this was
  the case. What should we do about it?

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Our strengths

• Most children feel safe at school
• Our School has important strategies in place to
  make us safe at school
• Most children are healthy at school
• All children are encouraged to be healthy at
  school.
• All children (those interviewed!) enjoy school
• Most children think they achieve well at school
• Lessons observed show excellent achievement of
  children
• Most children believe we give them a good start
  in finding a good job
• Our school has given many children an excellent
  experience of learning
• All children interviewed thought important jobs
  were always given to the same children
• Our school has very good reward systems in place
  and teachers do try their best

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Developments

• How do we address the issues our research has
  thrown up?
• We need to look at these issues with our
  children, teachers,parents governors to see if
  they have any ideas
• We would like to show children, teachers, parents
  and governors what we have found and celebrate
  it, because we do have a lot to celebrate about
  our school. We love it!

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Plenary

• What have we learnt by doing this research?
• Lots of things we didnt know about our school
• How to observe lessons and teachers
• How to interview children
• How to record information
• To collect and analyse information
• To work as part of a team
• To develop our skills of public speaking
• How to ask questions as children we are the
  ones who are always asked questions!
• Discuss real life issues with a range of people
  in different environments

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Thank you to.

• Our teachers and Mrs Sweeney. We would not have
  been able to complete this research without being
  secure in knowing you would listen to us.
• Mr Jones. For being there and for believing in
  us. It really means a lot