Abbeyfield School

11-18 comprehensive school Business and Enterprise status Chippenham, Wiltshire Approx 900 students on roll Our journey to create 65% A*-C (inc Eng & an integrated curriculum for the Ma) 2011 at GCSE 21st century

Ofsted 2009
Main area for development: Raise the achievement further by improving the quality of teaching & learning, particularly in Years 7 and 8

Inspiration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U

Learning at Abbeyfield School OUR AIM from September 2012

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to here

Planning for change

Stage 1 What kind of learner do we want to create?

Stage 2 How do we organise the teaching & learning?

Stage 3 How do we organise the curriculum?

Stage 1 What kind of learner do we want to create?

Abbeyfield Learner

How do we organise the teaching? The Abbeyfield Learning Wheel

The Abbeyfield Learning Wheel

Assessment for Learning

Student Behaviour for Learning

Teacher Behaviour for Learning

DJD 2011

Introduce, create, demonstrate & review

Stage 3 How do we organise the curriculum to allow us to achieve this?

Learning at Abbeyfield School

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to here

How do we organise the curriculum to allow us to achieve this?

MYC
Abbeyfield Middle Years Curriculum

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Why are we adopting the IMYC model? What will look different at Abbeyfield in 13 the AMYC?

Provides the structure

Reasons for developing AMYC

1. More explicit learning goals - Knowledge, Skills & Understanding (across all subjects)

Reasons for developing AMYC

2. Design that links subjects and themes

Reasons for developing AMYC

3. Subjects are linked but not all the time (only when links are meaningful) - helping students brains make links

Reasons for developing AMYC

4. Big Ideas to give context

Reasons for developing AMYC

5. More coherent process of learning

Reasons for developing AMYC

6. Some increased teacher collaboration,

Reasons for developing AMYC

7.
Teachers and student more aware of teaching in other subjects

Abbeyfield Learning Wheel Lesson planning Big idea

Lesson Entry point

Lesson Exit Point

Knowledge harvest

Reflection opportunities
Research and record learning activities

Lesson Learning goals

*inspired by IMYC curriculum model

MYC MYC
Abbeyfield Middle Years Curriculum Abbeyfield Middle Years Curriculum

Ofsted 2009
Main area for development: Raise the achievement further by improving the quality of teaching & learning, particularly in Years 7 and 8

It is not about this

Learning at Abbeyfield School

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