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We really believe at Sacred Heart that a curriculum should be innovative and
it should be right for the particular school and the way at Sacred Heart
that we have encouraged everybody to take on these new initiatives and
innovation is by starting small. By getting somebody who can really take off
with an idea and then getting them to peer coach everyone else in school
so that everybody's using that approach but they're also using it
in their own way that's right for them as an individual teacher.
Today the children were learning all about writing a newspaper report.
Rather than just do a simple pen and paper excise, we have tried three different
ways to explore how we present that to an audience.
At the very start of the lesson I introduced the learning objective for today
and shared the book again, once more with the children just to familiarise ourselves
with that story.
We are going to have a group of you that are in a newsroom and you are going to
become those newsreaders.
I'll have a group of you that are working on the radio station and you are going to
go through your script and interview some characters out of our story and
report the news.
Then we will have a separate group of you and you will be blogging and
writing about the news that is happening. All happy?
The children were then provided with ten minutes of time where they could write
their scripts and begins to pull together what they would say.
You know when you have got a newspaper, when you're looking at one and you've
got a picture, what would you call the bit of writing that goes underneath it?
Caption?
A caption. You would have caption to tell you what it is and who it is.
I am really pushing communication throughout my children working as
parts of a group. Also in class, purpose and audience is a real target for us.
We have looked at how we can present this in a different way to a meaningful
audience.
Look at an article, read it or go on to a video and listen to it and watch it
and pick out any words that the use that you think only a journalist would use those
sort of words.
Inverted commas.
Inverted commas what do we use those for?
Speech.
Perfect. So that is a quotation from somebody isn’t it?
That's their opinion.
Exactly. It's their opinion.
The new National Curriculum is all about audience and purpose and it's really
important to get the children thinking about learning in creative and
different ways and using the spoken word throughout the whole curriculum.
Look at this record button at the side, Can you all see that?
Then you just press record mix, that one there.
[NEWS MUSIC]
Hello and welcome to BBC News. My name is Emily Cheston.
We will now go to the scene and correspondent Andrew Salmo.
Why would you want to live forever?
I don’t really want to live forever, well not anymore anyway.
After meeting the Ancient child I really changed my mind.
How do you feel without anyone to talk to?
I feel lonely and I feel a lot like I'm useless.
Lets listen to it.
Today has been a really memorable moment for my class.
They have all come in, they have done something completely different
and they have all got a different activity to do.
The ones that need the more time writing down, get more time for that.
The children have, a lot of the time, led for themselves.
I have given them the success criteria that I want but it's about them going off,
finding out and doing and then presenting back to me.
Are you all happy with that? Yeah
One to ten - what would you give it? Ten being good.
Nine. Ten.
I'll stick with your ten. That's good for me.
How did that go?
Yes, it has gone really well. I am really impressed with the class.
I have got a few little pointers that they need to change, a bit of editing,
but I can't wait to present it to the rest of the class.
The new National Curriculum is not massive changes. It is giving you an opportunity to
really tailor what you do, make it really relevant to the children in your school and
to really enrich what you are doing.
We have got sheep that I can hear bleating at the moment
and our pet sheep are looked after by the children,
we've got and a large chicken coop behind where I am sat.
The children go in, they look after them, they feed them but they also
collect the eggs.
It's really bringing the curriculum alive but encouraging the children to
see starting and end points to their learning.