Our Projects
Each unit of learning has an enquiry question and is completed through a project with a clear outcome. Teachers plan each unit using a project planner, to make cross curricular links where appropriate and where it enhances the learning. This includes:
- Choosing a high quality, thought provoking text that links to the theme or to a linked philosophical concept such as belonging. This forms the basis of the English curriculum and provides knowledge for theme.
- Selecting a range of extracts to explore though reading and subject specific curriculums for knowledge and analysis.
- Linking Science units to global issue and enquiry question where it enhances the learning
- Sequencing the knowledge in each subject for coherence.
- Applying mathematical skills such as use of coordinates, calculations of costings, shape work etc
There are different phases to a project, supporting coherence and metacognition.
- EXPLORE
- Explore the context, through high quality text
- Exposure to key issue
- Make links between prior learning
- Acquire essential knowledge
- Carry out research
- Hook into the context
- DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING
- Make links between prior learning
- Key History and Geography Skills taught
- Enquiry opportunities – dramatic opportunities stimulate question creation and are explored in enquiry context
- Debate, explore viewpoints and perspectives of a scenario through dramatic opportunities
- Analyse real life data and assess/evaluate key issue
- Challenge stereotypes
- Rank and justify
- Opportunities to apply core and wider curriculum skills
- PLAN
- Work as a classroom team to plan outcome
- Design and review
- Plan delivery
- Planning for impact – consider audience and purpose
- Involve school community
- Involve wider global community
- Opportunities to apply core and wider curriculum skills
- DELIVER OUTCOME
- Promote outcome
- Create/Make/Write outcome
- Oracy – presentation
- Deliver to community – parent, school, local, national, global?
- Design and contribute to display
- EVALUATE
- Evaluation of project
- Personal impact, Community impact, global impact
- Knowledge, skills, attitudes gained through project
- Next steps in learning


