Today the weather started cloudy, don't worry, they burnt off before 10am.
This morning's briefing with the studio schools was bubbling with questions and wonderings following Monday's culture shock. Towards the end of the breakfast meeting the SBL contingency were asked if we were going to give a presentation of learning (POL) at the end of the week, we said "sure!" We then started by choosing from the selection of essential questions the content for our POL. How does the physical environment contribute to engagement in lessons?
Our plan is to give the most interesting presentation - by making something, HTH style. Brooklynn, Andrea and Max have agreed to help... ideas to follow.
The first activity was an observation of how year 5 pupils are trained in the HTH critique process which is a very interesting experience. In summary: slow, calm, chunked, quiet and sitting in pairs on the carpet. Towards the end of the session two year 5 pupils gave me a very informative tour of the classroom; talking about their work with bucket loads of passion and pointing out things with genuine pride. They were so articulate!
After the lesson the teacher treated me to a coffee (the parents express their gratitude in Starbucks vouchers) and she was happy for me to grill her about how they use data to support differentiation, and what are the associated expectations.
In the afternoon I conducted a range of classroom observations that focused on how pupils make and create practical project outcomes. I asked a lot of questions about how classes raise money / acquire resources for their products. My most interesting conversation of the day was with a teacher who explained how the big flagship projects are constructed, he described how he thought HTH could develop it's approach to 'making stuff' to allow even deeper learning.
Favourite quote of the day:
I asked a year 6 pupil why a display in his classroom was empty, he said, "because we are at the beginning of the project, this is the most exciting part".
This morning's briefing with the studio schools was bubbling with questions and wonderings following Monday's culture shock. Towards the end of the breakfast meeting the SBL contingency were asked if we were going to give a presentation of learning (POL) at the end of the week, we said "sure!" We then started by choosing from the selection of essential questions the content for our POL. How does the physical environment contribute to engagement in lessons?
Our plan is to give the most interesting presentation - by making something, HTH style. Brooklynn, Andrea and Max have agreed to help... ideas to follow.
The first activity was an observation of how year 5 pupils are trained in the HTH critique process which is a very interesting experience. In summary: slow, calm, chunked, quiet and sitting in pairs on the carpet. Towards the end of the session two year 5 pupils gave me a very informative tour of the classroom; talking about their work with bucket loads of passion and pointing out things with genuine pride. They were so articulate!
After the lesson the teacher treated me to a coffee (the parents express their gratitude in Starbucks vouchers) and she was happy for me to grill her about how they use data to support differentiation, and what are the associated expectations.
In the afternoon I conducted a range of classroom observations that focused on how pupils make and create practical project outcomes. I asked a lot of questions about how classes raise money / acquire resources for their products. My most interesting conversation of the day was with a teacher who explained how the big flagship projects are constructed, he described how he thought HTH could develop it's approach to 'making stuff' to allow even deeper learning.
Favourite quote of the day:
I asked a year 6 pupil why a display in his classroom was empty, he said, "because we are at the beginning of the project, this is the most exciting part".