How to Maximise Learning Opportunities

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How to Maximise Learning Opportunities Raise
Achievement by Broadening the 14-19 Curriculum

• By
• Mark Attenburrow
• mark_at_attenburrow.ndo.co.uk

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New 14-19 agenda for schools

• New Thinking Required to Develop
• A Relevant Curriculum for ALL
• The sorts of action steps an organisation comes
  up with, the sorts of knowledge it seeks, the
  sort of thinking it uses, are directly related to
  the size of the goal pictured in peoples heads.
• John OKeefe (Group Vice President, Procter
  Gamble)
• Business beyond the box

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools
Lets admit it. Corporations around the world are
reaching the limits of incrementalism. Squeezing
another penny out of costs, getting a product to
market a few weeks earlier, responding to
customers enquiries a little bit faster,
ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing
another point of market share those are
obsessions of managers today. But pursuing
incremental improvements, while rivals reinvent
the industry, is like fiddling while Rome
burns. Gary Hamel, Strategy as Revolution
How do we raise achievement? Aiming for 2
incremental change in results (5 A-C GCSE) or
reinvent the industry?
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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• Fact of 30 OECD Countries only Mexico, Turkey
  Greece have more students dropping out at 16
• Countries that provide individuals with one
  additional year in education can boost
  productivity and raise economic output by 3 - 6
  over time
• Source Adreas Schleicher, OECD Policy Brief 2006

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• Redefining entitlement
• Defining broad balanced curriculum
• To include vocational work-related and
  enterprise learning for all young people
• Preparing tomorrows workforce for their role in
  the economy in the 21st Century

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• Redefining Entitlement
• Moved from one where all students received the
  same curriculum to, one where the curriculum is
  appropriate to the individual

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• Disaffection poor performance is often linked
  to
• Inability to access the curriculum
• Low motivation to learn
• Lack of perceived relevance of subject matter
• Pressure from one speed result driven common
  curriculum

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• White Paper
• More opportunities incentives for 16-19 year
  olds to reach level 2 in English and Maths where
  not achieved at 16 (GCSE or equivalent)
• More opportunities to combine academic and
  vocational learning
• New Specialised Diplomas combining academic and
  vocational study covering 14 lines available at
  level 1,2,3.

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Understanding the new 14-19 agenda for schools

• No school will be capable of delivering the full
  entitlement and nor would we want them to. We
  want individual institutions to play to their
  strengths, focusing on the things they do well
  and relying on others to provide the things they
  do less well. This collaboration between
  institutions..will ensure both the full range of
  provision is available and that standards
  continue to rise.
• Dfes Website (Dfes 14-19 Gateway Education
  Skills White paper)

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Building Opportunity

• Curriculum Map based on Audit of
• Opportunity

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Curriculum Audit breadth of opportunity
Progression - Level 4 qualifications/Employment
NCF Level 3 A Levels (academic vocational) AS levels (academic vocational) OCR National BTEC National Apprenticeships NVQ level 3
NCF Level 2 GCSEs grades A-C (academic vocational) OCR L2 Nationals BTEC First Diplomas City Guilds Craft Cert. Young Apprenticeship AQA Preparing for working life OCR Work Related See 96 List Eg. Vocational / Work related NVQ level 2
NCF Level 1 GCSEs grades D-G BTEC Introductory Cert. / Dip OCR L1 Nationals Eg. AQA Preparing for working life OCR Cert Work Related See 96 List Eg. ABC Board Hosp. Catering / Motor Mechanic ETC NVQ level 1
NCF Entry Level Entry qualifications including BTEC Skills for Working Life and Life Skills / OCR Entry Certificates
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Curriculum Audit Where are you now
Progression - Level 4 qualifications/Employment
NCF Level 3 A Levels (academic vocational) AS levels (academic vocational)
NCF Level 2 GCSEs grades A-C (academic vocational)
NCF Level 1 GCSEs grades D-G
NCF Entry Level Entry qualifications
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Curriculum Audit Where do you want to get to by
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Progression - Level 4 qualifications/Employment
NCF Level 3 A Levels (academic vocational) AS levels (academic vocational)
NCF Level 2 GCSEs grades A-C (academic vocational)
NCF Level 1 GCSEs grades D-G
NCF Entry Level Entry qualifications
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BUNGAY HIGH SCHOOL
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Developing the vocational curriculum in
partnership
Who? Where? When? What? How? Not Maybe
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Building capacity through partnership

• Driven by
• Resource issues
• Curriculum entitlement (14 lines)
• By need for 100 of students to succeed
• How
• College partnerships
• Cluster partnerships
• School / employer / industry - partnerships

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Bungay High School Example

• Profile
• Rural school with approx. 50 bussed
• 950
• 13-18 (middle school feed)
• 10 form entry
• 5 or more A-C grades 2003 - 60
• Bungay works with 6 external partner groups Gt.
  Yarmouth College Otley College CTS (training
  provider), Broads Authority Employers Cluster
  School
• 12 on SEN register

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Building capacity through partnership

• Cluster of schools

Full Teaching Load
Teaching Load
Free
Teaching Load
Free
Teaching Load
Free
Waisted Resource
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Opportunities Business Creative use of option
blocks
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Opt Bl 1 Yr 10 Link / WRL Opt Bl 1 Yr 11 Link / WRL
Opt Bl 1 Yr 10 Link / WRL Opt Bl 1 Yr 11 Link / WRL
Opt Bl 2 Yr 10 Link / WRL Opt Bl 2 Yr 11 Link / WRL
Opt Bl 2 Yr 10 Link / WRL Opt Bl 2 Yr 11 Link / WRL
WRL ? WRL ?
WRL ? WRL ?
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Building capacity through partnership

• Cluster of schools

14 Student Course Ideal Model
Course A
Spare
Course B
Spare
Course C
Spare Capacity
Wasted Resource
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Bungay High School Example

• Building opportunities
• KS4
• Traditional 9/10 GCSE programme
• Introducing a BTEC strand (Sport) L2
  Countryside Studies
• Construction / Catering / Hairdressing Beauty
  (link programmes) L1
• Wide range of WRL opportunities eg. hairdressing,
  construction, garage trades, care professions
  etc.
• GCSE Health Social Care
• KS5
• OCR National Health Social Care
• BTEC First Diploma in Sport (Outdoor Education)
• BTEC National Science
• OCR National Certificate L2 in TT
• OCR National Diploma L3 in TT Sport

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Bungay High School Example

• Building opportunities
• KS4
• In partnership
• CG 6000 series Construction L1 (Yr 10 / 11) 24
  students hands on.
• ABC Catering Award L1 (Yr 10 / 11) 22 students
• BTEC Certificate Hairdressing L1 (Yr 10 / 11) 28
  students
• BTEC First Certificate in Countryside Studies
• Employers wide range of opportunities
  underpinned by a training provider offering an
  appropriate qualification

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Bungay High School Example

• Key considerations
• Timetabling 2 option blocks put back to back to
  allow 4 period morning block
• Most vocational courses have school component to
  provide an integrated course make them more
  affordable
• College Flexible Funding supports vocational
  programmes

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Bungay High School Example

• Key considerations Staffing
• School vocational co-ordinator manages link
  programmes and supports school vocational
  programmes
• Inclusion co-ordinator (TA) monitors college
  programme on a day-to-day basis sets up and
  monitors WRL placements
• In school we employ one member of staff who has a
  catering background for x3 days per week

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Bungay High School Example

• Key considerations
• Transport
• TA student support provided
• Cultural differences
• College staffing
• Tracking progress and achieving certification

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Bungay High School Example

• Key considerations
• Marketing / student selection
• Parental notification / parental consent
• Induction programme
• Information flow to from partners
• Student contract / Code of conduct
• School / College agreement
• Emergency procedures
• Use of Yr 10 work experience

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Vocational Programme Costs             
Programme Year 10 Year 11 Hours Cost / hr Total Total Add. Transport Cost of programme
  weeks weeks per week   Year 10 Year 11    
Hospitality 38 33 2.5 55       9,763
Hair Beauty 38 33 2.5 55       9,763
Construction 38 33 2.5 50       8,875
Construction B   33 2.5 50       4,125
Transport Yr 10 Gt.Y 4180             4,180
Transport Yr 11 Gt.Y   3630           3,630
Transport Yr 11 Low   2640           2,640
Countryside studies             1000 1,000
                 
Capitation         800 800   1600
Total 4294 6402 10 210 800 800   45575



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Cost per head

• Cost / Student 414 of which 119 is transport
• New Vision
• Our aim is to develop a vocational centre and
  share it across three or more schools