Annual Development 2009-2010

Annual Development 2009-2010

Further implementation of the platform should be linked to whole school and subject development plans and SEFs. I would propose that the following areas be included within development plans for the next academic year:

STAFF TRAINING
(nb this is based upon a survey of staff training needs carried out in March 2009)
• The newly appointed IT Technician to attend administrator training (June 2009).
• Staff (teaching and non-teaching) skills training to be offered in 3 week blocks per term, taking place from 2.30-3.30 in N33, on Tuesdays, beginning September 2009 (i.e. 6 training courses to be offered over 1 academic year).
• One further group of Year 9 into 10 student trainers to be recruited to offer support to subject areas (by end September 2009).
• Subject staff to attend county training sessions and disseminate to staff (at least 3 training courses are normally offered through CfBT over one academic year).
• A staff trainer register to be created (i.e. of staff who have expertise in certain applications and who can offer training and support across subject areas e.g. DT and the use of Forums) (by end December 2009).
• An input to be made during one whole school INSET day on ‘pedagogy and learning platforms’ (by end July 2010).

STUDENT E-PORTFOLIOS
• E-Portfolios to be piloted and developed with Year 9 classes (by December 2009).
• E-Portfolios to be rolled out to the remaining student body (by July 2010).

FLEXIBLE LEARNING
• An anywhere-anytime flexible learning pilot project to be organised with two groups of Year 11 ICT classes (November-December 2009) and a report produced for consideration at middle leaders / SLT meetings (January 2010).
• One further flexible learning project to be piloted with a Year 10 group from another curriculum area (March/April 2010).
• A whole school policy relating to flexible learning to be written (July 2010).
• An opportunity to be created within the extended learning programme for a KS3 year group to experience flexible learning supported by technology (by December 2010, based on a Business & Enterprise project).

ENHANCEMENT
• GCSE IT to be offered online to a small group of Year 11 students in 2009-10.
• Opportunities to be identified from across the curriculum in relation to an enhanced programme of study that can be offered to KS4 students using the platform (by March 2010).

STUDENT VOICE
• A school council area will be established on the platform (by December 2010).
• Elections for the School Council will take place online.
• School Council agendas should include a learning platform update.
• A separate KS3 and KS4 School of the Future unit of work will investigate and evaluate student perceptions of learning (July 2009).
• A second whole school Cyber bullying programme to be delivered in November 2009 to coincide with a national programme of events.
• At least three key areas of school life that impact on student learning will be discussed in the Big Talk area, with evidence of a ‘joined-up-trail’ between student discussions and school action (September 2009, January 2010 and April 2010).
• Every Year 10 student will complete a community based project that will be promoted through the platform (from September 2009).

PARENT ACCESS
• Over 2009-10 the impact of the Digital Access Project on parent access to the school curriculum via the learning platform will be evaluated (by July 2010).
• An implementation plan for parental access to the platform will be developed (by January 2010) with the PTFA taking a lead in the implementation of this (from March 2010).
• Nb parental access to data will be delivered through SIMS Learning Gateway / UniServity integration in 2010 (local authority led project).

COMMUNITY PROJECTS
• The Young Mayor of Newhaven elections will take place online through the platform (July 2009).
• A Newhaven Fort student support group will be established on the platform (September 2009).
• In preparation for the extended learning community market place a marketplace area will be developed online in partnership with local groups (from January 2010).

TRANSITION
• Junior School transition project (lead Mat Hafernik, July 2009).
• Establish a junior/secondary school teacher collaborative area on UniServity (April 2010).

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING PROJECTS
• A major Holocaust Project will take place online in January 2010 to coincide with National Holocaust Memorial Day (planning in place from July 2009).

SUBJECT DEVELOPMENT (focus)
(nb a cross curricular survey of ICT use in currently underway)
• Humanities (September 2009).
• Maths (January 2010).
• Music (April 2010)
• The delivery of the IT Diploma will be integrated into to the platform (September 2010).

ASSESSMENT
• The use of the assessment tools within the platform will be piloted from January 2010 within a specific curriculum area (results being used to inform practice across the curriculum / initial curriculum area to be identified through consultation).

ADMINISTRATION
• The embedding of the platform in teaching and learning should be part of an overall strategy to reduce the amount of paper use in school and move towards a more environmentally sustainable use of technology (these issues to be explored in Term 1 and 2 with a view to producing an action plan in Term 4).