Why skills matter: students need more than subject knowledge
At Wapping High, we believe in equipping students with more than just subject knowledge. Our Workshop Wednesday program focuses on developing soft skills to prepare them for a competitive and ever-changing world. With project-based learning and support from Skills Builder, our students are becoming well-rounded learners ready to face life’s challenges.
Trivium Learning at Ladybridge – What were some of the key steps?
Discover the key steps taken by Ladybridge High in their journey towards implementing the Trivium model. From building a learning culture to improving behavior and relationships, find out how they’re challenging the traditional education system.
Our society is diverse and richer for the people that make up this diversity
Our society is diverse and richer for the people that make up this diversity. Ladybridge High School celebrates its diverse learner population and believes in providing a curriculum that reflects their experiences and identities.
What could we do? Exploring a better way to develop teachers
What can we do to develop teachers? Explore a better way with Ladybridge High School as they share their journey and the principles of good continuous professional learning.
Learner attributes supporting learner agency
The use of learner skills and attributes is well embedded in many international education systems and has gained significant traction in the UK in more recent years.
Leadership development in the South West – what next?
Big Education and Connect Academy Trust have a shared belief that a better kind of education is possible through a deep conviction that schools need to focus on head (academic success), heart (character and well-being) and hand (generating ideas, problem solving, making a difference).
Why Learner Profiles are the future for assessment in primary
Learner Profile allows children to take ownership of their achievements and targets. It works as a self-reflective tool, ensuring that children celebrate their successes whilst also keeping their goals at the forefront of their mind.
Finding time for education’s bread and butter
When joining the Next Big 10, I was very happy to join the Developing Teaching and Learning Working Group as an antidote to this struggle. What a joy to devote time to debating ideas, looking at cutting edge research and negotiating with a passionate group of individuals to narrow down such a huge area and decide on a focus.
BElonging – our second all staff development day
It was an enormous pleasure to have our whole Big Education team together last Friday. This was our ‘second draft’, having had our first go the year before. Modelling that we are always learning and improving, we had listened hard to all the feedback and ideas and built that in.
Darwin Provision at Surrey Square
At Surrey Square, the Darwin provision has created a smaller, quieter environment for children with high complex special needs.
