Excellence and Enjoyment

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Excellence andEnjoyment
Chad Vale Primary School

• Key Aspects of Learning Introduction and Year
  Group Overviews

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Primary National StrategyExcellence and
EnjoymentLearning and Teaching in the Primary
Years

• Sent into schools September 2004.
• Non-statutory guidance
• Gave schools a toolkit to audit the curriculum
• Many schools blocked topics/subjects as a result.
• Specified 12 Key Aspects of Learning

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creative thinking
problem solving
enquiry
social skills
information processing
reasoning
evaluation
managing feelings
empathy
motivation
self-awareness
communication
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Enquiry

• These skills enable pupils to ask relevant
  questions, to pose and define problems, to plan
  what to do and how to research, to predict
  outcomes and anticipate responses, to test
  conclusions and improve ideas.
• (National Curriculum, 2000)

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Problem Solving

• The key skill of problem solving involves pupils
  in developing the skills and strategies that will
  help them to solve problems they face in learning
  and in life. Problem solving includes the skills
  of identifying and understanding the problem,
  planning ways to solve a problem, monitoring
  progress in tackling a problem and reviewing a
  solution to a problem.
• (National Curriculum, 2000)

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Motivation

• Motivation enables learners to take an active and
  enthusiastic part in learning. Intrinsically
  motivated learners recognise and derive pleasure
  from learning. Motivation enables learners to set
  themselves goals and work towards them, to focus
  and concentrate on learning, to persist when
  learning is difficult and to develop
  independence, resourcefulness and personal
  organisation.

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Progress so far

• Identified all of the Key Aspects of Learning
  that takes place within Art, DT, Drama, Science,
  History, Geography, ICT, PSMHE and PE.
• Mapped these in subjects throughout the year,
  creating a Key Areas of Learning Map (K.A.L.M!)
• Shared AreagtKALMgtIndividual Yr. Group Maps

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Could you please? ?

• Go through your Yearly Topic Overview and copy
  and paste your planned teaching order into half
  termly units.
• See the Year 2 example.
• It doesnt have to be in teaching order.
• Can you identify a clear MAIN or secondary focus
  for each half term?
• This should take 10 mins max!

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Where next

• Analysis of the Year Group maps to see if it is
  possible to specify a particular Key Aspect main
  focus for each half term.
• Start to think about where the Key Aspects of
  Learning are happening in your classrooms.
• Skills Ladders for each Key Area of Learning
  showing progression.
• INSET to share Skills Ladders and focus on
  planning for Key Aspects of Learning.