Ashcroft High school

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Ashcroft High school

• Year 7
• Student Competences

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Student Competences

• Who says we need them?
• Staff
• Students
• Parents
• Colleges
• Employers
• Government

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Student Competences

• Competences For Learning
• Competences for Citizenship
• Competences for Relating to People
• Competences for Managing Situations
• Competences for Managing Information

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Competences For Learning

• Students would
• understand how to learn, and how to, manage
• their own learning throughout life
• have learned to think
• understand their own creative talents, and how to
• make best use of them.
• have learned to enjoy and love learning for its
  own
• sake.
• have achieved high standards in literacy,
• numeracy, and spatial understanding
• have high standards of competence in information
• and communications technology.

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Competences for Citizenship

• Students would
• Understand ethics and values, how personal
  behaviour should be informed by these, and how to
  contribute to society
• understand how society, government and business
  work, and the importance of active citizenship
• understand cultural and community diversity, in
  both national and global contexts, and why these
  should be respected and valued
• understand the social implications of technology
• Understand how to manage their own lives,
  including managing their financial affairs

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Competences for Relating to People

• Students would
• understand how to relate to other people,
  including those they manage, or are managed by
  and how to get things done
• understand how to operate in teams, and their own
  capacities for filling different team roles
• understand how to develop other people, whether
  as peer or teacher

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Competences for Managing Situations

• Students would
• understand the importance of managing their own
• time
• understand what is meant by managing change
• understand the importance both of celebrating
• success and managing disappointment
• understand what is meant by being entrepreneurial
• and initiative-taking and how to develop their
• capacities for these
• understand how to manage risk and uncertainty

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Competences for Managing Information

• Students would
• have developed a range of techniques for
  accessing, evaluating and differentiating
  information and have learned how to analyse,
  synthesise and apply it
• understand the importance of reflecting and
  applying critical judgement

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Competences Themes

• New Beginnings
• Being a good citizen
• Living in Luton
• Living in Britain
• Living in Europe
• Being a global citizen

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Philosophy and SEAL

• Philosophy develops thinking skills emotional
  intelligence
• SEAL
• Social and
• Emotional
• Aspects of
• Learning

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BLP

• BLP Building Learning Power
• The 4 Rs
• Resilience (perseverance, managing distractions)
• Resourcefulness (questioning, making links)
• Reflectiveness (planning, revising)
• Reciprocity (collaboration, listening,
  interdependence)

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A new approach

• Help students to learn
• -facts
• -how to learn
• -how to get on with others
• -how to cope with life
• -how to manage develop themselves
• -how to manage develop others
• -how to assess their own development