Team Time

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Team Time

• Chapel-en-le-Frith High School
• Boys Hidden Talent Group

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School Context

• 11-16 mixed comprehensive
• 970 nor
• 50 - 60 A - C
• Large gender gap 18
• Low aspirations

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The name..

• Hidden talent

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What strategies did we employ?

• INSET on Breakthrough methodology
• Boys completing their own PDSAs
• School wide work on the use of positive language
• INSET on boy friendly teaching and learning
  techniques
• All departments completed a PDSA as a result of
  INSET
• Parents meetings

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The Teams

• Teams of 4
• Separate Year 9 and Year 11
• More successful if self-selected
• Staff can balance strengths and weaknesses
• Established early in the programme

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How to gain points!

• Attainment
• Motivation
• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Revision/Booster Classes
• Attendance at Homework club

• Merits
• Use of SamLearning
• Involvement in extra-curricular activities
• Four a-side football

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Team Points
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Points make Prizes

• Interim Rewards
• Book tokens
• Payment for school visit/prom ticket
• Fun activity, e.g. bowling
• Final Prestigious Reward

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Visit to Stockport County

• Education Centre
• DVD editing
• Player Interviews
• Training
• Match tickets
• Programme Article

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Steven Speilberg eat your heart out..

• The boys DVD
• Filmed and edited by them access to facilities
  not available in school
• Training given by the centre
• Skills they could use in other areas
• A real boost prior to SATs and GCSE
  examinations
• An incentive for our next cohort

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Extending the competitive ethos.

• Grand Prix ( Year 9 merits )
• Raffle tickets
• Behaviour sweep ( Year 9 )
• Inter tutor events

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And the results?
In 2004 63.3 cohort gained 5 or more A - C at
GCSE
54.7 Boys gained 5 or more A - C 72.3 Girls
gained 5 or more A - C
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In 2005 62 of cohort gained 5 or more A - C at
GCSE
60 Boys gained 5 or more A - C 64 Girls gained
5 or more A - C
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In Year 9 100 of the boys achieved Level 5 in
English and Maths and 96 in Science In Year 11
86 of the boys achieved 5 A-C
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Where Next?

• Questionnaire to evaluate the project with pupils
  and parents
• Take the Year 9 into 10 through
• Identify Year 7 into 8 pupils
• Use Year 9/10 as peer mentors for Year 7 cohort
• Joint inset with feeder primary schools
• Continue to develop resources

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Contact details

• allisong1_at_chapel-en-le-frithhigh.derbyshire.sch.uk
  
• janw3_at_chapel-en-le-frithhigh.derbyshire.sch.uk
• 01298 813118