Using ICT to raise achievement at Seven Kings High School

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Using ICT to raise achievement at Seven Kings
High School
Clive Rosewell (Deputy Headteacher)
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School Profile

• Successful, high achieving multi-ethnic, mixed
  comprehensive school
• 84 5A-C (2004)
• 1350 students on role (420 in the sixth form)
• Designated school for integration of pupils with
  physical disability
• Technology College and Leading Edge School
• Ethos wonderful pupils!
• Pleasant Learning Environment e.g. carpets in
  classrooms and corridors
• Reflective learning school e.g. AFL

ICT - A central part of the schools success
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School Ethos

• The school exists for students
• Our designation as a Leading Edge School reflects
  our success in enabling the students of all
  abilities to succeed.
• Our success is not accidental
• Derived from the high quality of the teaching
  and non teaching staff and the importance placed
  by the school on learning, teaching and
  achievement.
• Key learning principles
• There is no known ceiling to achievement
  intelligence can be developed
• Each student must know what to do in order to
  improve and how to do it! High expectations on
  their own are not enough.
• Consistency of experience is fundamental. We are
  a team and consistency makes us greater than the
  sum of our parts.
• Every student has the right to be successful and
  the ability to achieve.
• Our job is to create learning not process and
  record what we find.

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ICT Facilities

• Full Wireless Cisco Network
• Laptops for all Teachers
• 24 Hour network access VLE installed Summer
  2005
• 8 well-equipped ICT rooms
• 150 Laptops for student use
• Interactive whiteboards, data projectors in
  classrooms
• 4 ICT Technicians
• Multi-Media Technician
• Fully Computerised reports and Assessment system

• All purchases linked to expected outcomes
• Not buying kit for the sake of it
• If it will not make a difference, dont buy it!!

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Using ICT To Raise Standards

• Learning and teaching
• Administration
• Target setting
• Cross-curricular delivery of ICT

E-confident schools use ICT to make subject
teaching more effective Charles Clarke
(speech to the CEOs, Birmingham June 2003)
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Using ICT To Raise Standards ICT is highly
valued at Seven Kings and is seen as a crucial
part of every childs education. ICT is seen as a
tool to support and enhance learning rather than
an end in itself
Learning and Teaching Policy (Seven Kings High
School)
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ICT _at_ KS3 Seven Kings

• A Cross-Curricular Model - ICT is simply a
  powerful Tool for Learning AFL
• ICT learning opportunities in every Scheme of
  work
• We cover the KS3 ICT Strategy across the
  curriculum

WHO target-audience WHY the end-users learning
experience WHAT preparation involved
(research/planning) HOW tasks to complete (the
making) WHERE place(s) to create the
end-product WHEN deadlines to be met The Six
Cardinal Questions of ICT Learning!
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High Standards for KS3 Cross-Curricular ICT

• Cross-curricular ICT Leader appointed September
  2004
• ICT strength and rigour in ALL subjects
• ICT as a requirement in all KS3 subjects
• ICT Levels given in all KS3 subjects
• Research Communication Skills RACS
• Extra resources in Science, Maths and DT Time
  and hardware
• Science Maths and DT responsible for Level 6
  opportunities and targets

One of the few schools in the country to deliver
cross-curricular ICT effectively OFSTED
Inspector 2003
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Adding Value to pupil outcomes
Fisher Family Trust and Autumn Package Prediction
based upon prior attainment at KS2 GCSE 5 A -C
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• Key Stage 3 ICT level 5
• 2004 85
• Key Stage 4 GNVQ ICT
• 2002, 76 Pass Rate
• 2003, 86 Pass Rate
• 2004, 93 Pass Rate
• Key Stage 5 whole school
• Average points score per student of 313.5
• 62.4 of all grades at A/B.
• Key Stage 5 ICT
• AS 45 Students, 100 Pass Rate
• A2 32 Students, 100 Pass Rate

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Transition Cross Phase Initiative

• Regular meetings with four primary and one
  special school.
• Sharing good practice.
• Peer to peer observations.
• Enrichment activities utilising ICT
• Design Technology Pro Desktop
• History Supporting their learning using
  Multimedia software
• Music composing and editing music using
  software
• Media filming and editing

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The Bridges Project

• Children in Year 6 and 7 working on the Bridges
  Project
• Seven Kings staff teaching in primary schools
• Project work on bridges A trip to Tower Bridge
• Visits to SKHS to use ICT and Technology to
  begin to design a bridge
• A summer project is set for the students
• Year 7 when students manufacture their designs.
• Best Work Folder issued to all students in Year
  6 coming to SKHS.
• Children select their own best work for
  discussion with teachers at SKHS.

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Technology Week
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Self and Peer Assessment

• Use of Mark Schemes
• Students create their own mark schemes based on
  given criteria
• Students write specific scheme for different
  levels or grade boundaries.
• Use of Student Seating
• Pairs or groups with equal balance of able and
  less able students.
• Students sat in pairs or groups of equal ability.
  Example of work a level / grade above their
  working level provided.
• Students identify what they need to move their
  work to the next level.
• Whole class activity where answers are shared by
  all students in a discussion chaired by the
  teacher.

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Self and Peer Assessment

• Feedback and Target Setting
• Students create and complete feedback sheet for
  other students or themselves and focus on areas
  for improvement.
• Use of traffic lights to show student
  understanding-
• Red dot lack of understanding /
  uncertainty about the task.
• Orange dot reasonable understanding / could
  have done better.
• Green dot clear understanding / goal
  achieved.
• Use of Targets
• Students to be given the opportunity to act upon
  their targets.
• Redrafting.
• Setting of tasks using similar skills.

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Strategies for Questioning
Strategy Benefits/ Gains
Consciously waiting for a student to think through an answer (before you break the silence) Prompts depth of thought and increases levels of challenge
You are not allowed to answer this in less than 15 words Develops speaking and listening skills.
Phone a friend Encourages whole class listening
Pair rehearsal (of an answer or a question) Encourages interaction, engagement and depth.
Snowballing (asking another student to respond to the answer of the previous student) Checking understanding. Building on previous answer. Promote active listening skills.
Eavesdropping and deploying specific targeted questions. Facilitates informed differentiation.
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"Friendship, Excellence and Opportunity"
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ICT as an enabling tool for personalisation

• Using ICT effectively can help personalisation
• Effective teaching planning and
  differentiation
• Flexible curriculum
• Student access to ICT
• Student Interviews
• Student data accessible and available at point
  of need

Using Data and ICT alone is not personalisation
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ICT and Target Setting Raise Achievement
Why Use Data?

• Identify barriers, problems and successes
• Compare our performance against National
  benchmarks
• Ask questions
• A starting point for discussion - Inform future
  planning
• NOT a one stop answer to our problems

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Target Setting To Raise Achievement

• At Key Stage 4 and 5 two grades for every student
  (KS3 to follow)
• Minimum Grade MG (should get)
• Target Grade TG (could get)

The corridor of achievement

• NOT a predicted grade
• Indicate potential performance
• Challenge underachievement

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Using ICT to raise achievement at Seven Kings
High School
Clive Rosewell (Deputy Headteacher) c.rosewell_at_sk
hs.net www.skhs.net