Loughborough Learning Partnership QCA Pilot Study

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Loughborough Learning Partnership QCA Pilot
Study

• Focus
• Diversity, cohesion and belonging through
• Intercultural engagement within the curriculum

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Context and process

• Multicultural approach vv intercultural
  engagement
• New QCA Secondary curriculum
• Pilot project involving three High Schools and
  Upper School
• Limited resources from QCA which was supplemented
  by the Local Authority to fund supply cover/audio
  visual costs and substantial time and physical
  resources from partners, particularly
  Loughborough University and The Baca Project

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Initial meeting in late October 07

• Looking for links with diversity, cohesion and
  belonging through intercultural engagement
• New QCA curriculum concepts
• Agreed that belonging would be the central
  theme with explicit links to well-being,
  inclusion and justice

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Central question

• What helps us to feel we belong at school, at
  home and in Loughborough and as a citizen in the
  UK?
• Next step
• Needed to know the views of students to inform
  the curriculum planning therefore questionnaires
  and interviews held in November/early December 07
  

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Project aim

• Aim
• To increase awareness and understanding of how
  people are able to belong to several groups
  whilst still retaining their own identity
  recognising how this changes over time

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Project objectives

• By the end of the Spring term 2008, students
  will
• Understand the factors which enable young people
  to feel they belong
• Recognise the groups they belong to, how they
  overlap and help to shape identity
• Develop the skills to manage change effectively.
• plus key concepts

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Rich Learning Opportunity
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Garendon High School A Specialist Sports College
with French as a lead subject Headteacher Jane
Walker
Good with many outstanding features OFSTED 2007
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Partnership working

• Loughborough Learning Partnership
• Joint Specialist School Bid
• Loughborough Development Group
• Loughborough Extended Schools Services

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Key areas of partnership working

• Transition and Progression
• Improving achievements and raising standards
• Delivering the ECM agenda
• Joint Specialist Status

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Key areas of partnership working

• Transition and Progression
• Improving achievements and raising standards
• Delivering the ECM agenda
• Joint Specialist Status

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What have we gained as a Trust Partner?
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• Extending the opportunities to work with other
  partners
• Deepening our vision of working together
• Broadening our work on transition and cohesion