Ibooks 2016

YEAR 7 ELEMENTS

ELEMENTS

Your Guide To Starting Your Year 7 Journey!

TEACHING GUIDE

Teaching Elements A welcome message from Mr Wells:

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We make sure that every aspect of school life actively reflects our commitment to nurturing: “Positive Relationships & Mutual Respect�

This guide shows you exactly why, how and what we have designed to make sure that every learning experience you have with us in your first term does just this, and does it just for you.

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WH Y D O W E S T R U C T U R E LE A R NING THE WAY WE DO?

The Clevedon Way is your personal compass. It will help you navigate your learning journey as you develop your 6 Qualities of Leadership so that you can lead yourself, others and your community in learning.

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WH Y D O W E S T R U C T U R E LE A R NING THE WAY WE DO?

The Clevedon Way You are ENQUIRING because you actively seek out new ways to set and achieve ambitious goals. You ask great questions and you are keen to find new ways of developing your knowledge, understanding and skills.

You are INTERDEPENDENT because you seek out every opportunity in your lessons and the wider school community to take on new challenges. You know who to ask for help and when it is best for you to work alone.

You are MOTIVATED every time you face the challenge of exceeding the expectations of others and even yourself. You are prepared to find out more and ask more questions to produce an excellent result.

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You are RESILIENT because you are confident to ask questions and share your ideas. You are happy to take on challenging tasks in lessons and keep going when things get diďŹƒcult. You get involved in all the opportunities provided.

You are REFLECTIVE because you are ready to assess your progress against success criteria. You are keen to listen to feedback and you can identify what you do well.

You take immediate action to improve and you give feedback to others that helps them improve.

You are ARTICULATE because you can find the best ways to communicate your ideas. You are confident when you explain your thinking to others and show them your learning.

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HO W D O W E S T R U C T U R E L E A R NING?

The Clevedon Eye In every learning learning experience you encounter at Clevedon School, your teachers will ACTIVATE what you already know, ask you to THINK AND QUESTION this and then give you the chance to SHOW AND TALK ABOUT all the new ideas and knowledge you have.

TIM stands for TRIPLE IMPACT MARKING. This is how your teachers use written feedback to have an individual conversation with you about your learning.

DDI stands for DATA DRIVEN INTERVENTIONS. This means that all your teachers will use what you have already achieved and what you need to do to improve to plan learning that’s just right for you.

DIGITAL LEARNING offers you even more choices about how you want to learn and how you want to record and show your learning.

ENRICHMENT activities provide you with a huge range of opportunities to develop your leadership and learning at all times of the day.

Your teachers and tutors will help you use the APPROACHES TO LEARNING guide so you can actively reflect on how positively you have approached your learning and what steps might help you develop a GROWTH MINDSET. 5

WH AT A R E W E L O O K I N G FOR ?

Approaches to Learning When you come across each new learning experience, you can use it to develop your very own personal GROWTH MINDSET. To do this, your subject teachers, your tutors and your peers will give you feedback on how well you have approached the completion of tasks and challenges.

To make sure you can use this feedback to fulfill your goals, you will have regular opportunities to reflect on your progress with your tutor group.

You can reflect on how your GROWTH MINDSET is developing by using your ‘Approaches to Learning’ (ATL) guide. When you discuss your learning with your tutor, your tutor group and people at home, you can use your ATLs to set yourself even more exciting and ambitious goals.

This means that your ATL guide will help you to identify where you are now, where you need to be and what you can do next to make excellent progress.

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T H E ELEMENT S OF OUR C UR R I C ULUM

Activating your Learning As you begin your first year at Clevedon School, you will soon discover three ELEMENTS to every learning experience you have: KNOWLEDGE: We will help you to build new knowledge, develop new skills and connect this to what you already know, can do and understand THINKING: We will encourage every one of you to think about what you now know and understand in different ways so that you can be confident in your knowledge and understanding COMMUNICATION: We will provide you with a variety of opportunities so that you can show others and talk about what you know, can do and understand

THINKING

COMMUNICATION

Consider your learning

Talk about & show your learning

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LEARNING GUIDE

Learning Elements

As you begin the next phase of your learning journey with us, we know that you have already gained many experiences, knowledge and skills from your primary school. We want you to build on everything you already know. This means that you will be ready and prepared to make the most of every new experience, knowledge and skills during your first term at Clevedon School.

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BU ILD

Build your learning Leaders of learning are MOTIVATED so that they build on the knowledge they already have.

Leaders of learning are ENQUIRING so that they find different ways to increase their understanding.

You already have many blocks of important information upon which you can build new knowledge.

PEOPLE

To continue building on what you already know, you will build up small pieces of knowledge in every lesson you have.

You will learn about different ways to research and develop your enquiry skills so that you can make links between your new and your existing knowledge to generate great questions.

WORDS

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RULES

DATES

EVENTS

CAUSES

FACTS

TERMS

THI N K , C ON SI D E R A N D QU E S TIO N

Think about your learning Leaders of learning are INTERDEPENDENT so that they can seek help from others to carry on learning on their own.

Leaders of learning are RESILIENT so that they stick at even the most diďŹƒcult tasks and don’t give up.

When you come across new knowledge, you will be able to test it out, consider it and continue to make new connections to create a bigger picture of what you know and understand You will discuss, debate and deliberate what you now know to make sure you have enough evidence to support what you think.

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TA L K A B O U T A N D S H O W

Talk about & show your learning Leaders of learning are ARTICULATE so that they can talk about and show their new knowledge and ideas to others.

Leaders of learning are REFLECTIVE so that they can look for ways to improve and identify the next steps they need to take.

When you have built your new knowledge, thought about it and questioned it, you will be ready to share it.

You will work with your teachers and your peers to find many dierent ways to show and share your learning.

Then you will be able to reflect on it and learn from what you have achieved and how you achieved it so that you continue to make brilliant progress.

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FINDING YOUR CLEVEDON WAY

Your Learning Maps

Get ready for your journey!

Every one of your teachers has mapped out your journey through the first term at Clevedon School. They have planned for you to be able to build your knowledge, think deeply and communicate your learning in each and every lesson of your first term. This will make sure you really enjoy brilliant progress from the very beginning of your time at Clevedon School. Brace yourself...it’s going to be an adventure!

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HO W T O U S E Y O U R L E A R N IN G MAP S

How to use your subject learning maps The subject you will be learning about

What you will be learning about in your lessons

Guiding questions for you to think about during all your lessons

Literacy in this subject with key words

The dierent activities you will be able to participate in during your lessons AND the topics you will be learning about 13

TUTOR GROUP & HOUSE

Participating in Tutor Group Book Looks to improve my learning

Debating with and voting for my House Leaders

Active participation in my House assemblies

ENQUIRING

ARTICULATE

Growing my GREEN Mindset for all my learning

How will I take a lead in my Tutor Group and House Family?

Leadership of my COMMUNITY through The Clevedon Way

REFLECTING

INTERDEPENDENT

Acting on feedback from my subject teachers

Designing and leading my own Student Voice Projects

RESILIENT

MOTIVATED

M Y T U T O R G R O U P & H O U S E F A M I LY

Leadership of OTHERS in my tutor and House family

curious

creative

compassionate

responsible trustworthy

articulate

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enterprising

Gallery 3.1 Clevedon Way - Leadership Maps

Click on one of the 6 Qualities of Leadership to view the Learning Map. To return to the main screen click the Clevedon Way. 15

Gallery 3.2 Learning Maps Gallery

Tap on each of the Learning Maps to enlarge.

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CHAPTER 4

Share & map your progress

By the middle of your first term, you will be bursting with new ideas, experiences and knowledge, so we want you to have the chance to tell us and the people at home all about this.

This is when we have a very special opportunity for you to really show how you are leading your own learning on an evening called “Meet The Tutor�.

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SECTION 1

Meet The Tutor (MTT) Very quickly, you will feel fully part of Clevedon School. You will be showing everybody how well you are leading your learning. You will be acting on your feedback and regularly setting ambitious goals for yourself in every part of your school life.

Your Tutor and your fellow tutor group members will help you to prepare everything that you want to include in your DIGITAL LEARNING JOURNAL. This will help you tell people at home (and your tutor!) all the amazing things you have achieved during your first term at Clevedon School. You can then share and talk through your Learning Journal on the Meet The Tutor evening!

STEP ONE: PREPARATION

STEP TWO: MAKE IMPROVEMENTS

STEP THREE: CREATE YOUR PROGRESS MAP

During your first term, your tutor and tutor group will ask you about what you are enjoying, what you are finding challenging and help you reflect on your learning

You will be able to record feedback from your teachers and your classmates in your Progress Planner.

You can use this to reflect on your learning and include it in your PROGRESS MAP

You will have lots of examples of feedback in your Progress Planner. This will let you know how well you are progressing. All of this will now be ready to share in your PROGRESS MAP

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P REPA R ING Y O U R P R O G R E SS M AP

Preparing your Learning Journal Here are some things you can record and collect examples of as you prepare your personal LEARNING JOURNAL. Remember, what you include and how it finally looks will be entirely up to you!

List three examples of when teachers have given you feedback and you have improved on your learning.

Make a list of things you know and can do that I didn’t know and couldn’t do at the beginning of this term Make a list of all the different activities to show that you are an active member of your House and Tutor Group Explain how you have developed your team work skills in your subject lessons...

Write about your biggest challenge so far AND say how you were successful in overcoming that challenge List the subjects you want to GROW your confidence in and who could help you do this Select three subjects where you have had to THINK really hard and say how this felt for you Write down at least two different ways that you can use to help you get ‘UN-STUCK’ Write down what you plan to do to improve your APPROACHES TO LEARNING and GO GREEN next term 19

WH AT TO I N C L U DE I N Y OU R PR OGR E SS MAP

How to map your progress Here are just a few ideas of what you can include in your LEARNING JOURNAL. Remember, how you choose to show your learning journey so far is entirely up to you, so be creative and enjoy!

Photographs or photocopies of my PROUDEST work

Feedback comments from my classmates on my learning

Examples of how I have acted on feedback from my classmates to make improvements

Lists of the skills I have developed

A film of my reflections on my progress so far

Examples of work that didn’t turn out as I wanted

A list of all the activities I have been involved in my tutor group

My goals for the next term and what I need to do to achieve them

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TEMPLATE: LEARNING JOURNAL

Your Learning Journal A Keynote template is available for you to download by clicking the iPad image below. You should use to capture your learning and new experiences in each subject area. Each subject has suggested some things that you may wish to include.

Click the image on the right to download, make sure you have Keynote installed before download. Select Open In Keynote to store an editable copy of the Keynote Presentation.

You should make sure that you have iCloud drive enabled so your presentation is accessible from iCloud.com and is also backed up to the Cloud.

It is your responsibility to collect evidence, populate your Learning Journal and make sure you save and Back Up your presentation.

A PowerPoint version is available should you not have access to an iPad or iPhone.

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