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| Activity
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Key
Skills Continuum |
| Focus |
Cross
Curricular |
| Key
Skill |
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| Length |
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| Description |
A
curriculum development tool kit that enables teachers to focus lessons
upon key skills, rather than subject content. |
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| Activity
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Lego
DACTA - Investigating Levers |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Working
with Others |
| Length |
Half
day |
| Description |
To
provide pupils with activities to investigate and understand the concepts
of levers and their practical use. Pupils will work in pairs/threes,
using Lego DACTA kits, to build a gripping device. Pupils will carry
out experiments on this gripper to explore how the variation of fulcrum
points and lengths of levers affects the gripping device. Pupils will
then build a weighing machine and then have to calibrate the machine
altering the sensitivity. Pupils will investigate the need for accurate
weighing in shops and industry. Problem solving activity to reinforce
concepts. |
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| Activity
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Telephone
Skills - Emergency services |
| Focus |
English |
| Key
Skill |
Working
with Others |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
To
provide pupils with an opportunity to communicate and review their
communication using telephones as a focus for the activity. Pupils
will work in teams, each team will be allocated to either phone an
emergency or be the emergency answering service. The pupils will have
to plan what they are going to say and once all groups are ready use
the internal phone system to call each other. Pupils will use review
sheets to comments on each others performance. The groups will then
swap their roles. A person from one of the emergency services will
be present to talk about the dangers of hoax calls. Pupils will then
use ICT to produce written work on the topic |
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| Activity
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Lego
DACTA - Investigating Pulleys |
| Focus |
Design
Technology |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
To introduce pupils to the principles of pulleys and develop their
understanding of how pulleys work and how they are used in simple
machines. Pupils will work in pairs to build a number of small machines
to help them explore and understand the principles of pulleys. The
pupils will be provided with opportunities to modify the machines
to operate in different ways. They will then be set a problem to solve.
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| Activity
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COMPACT
Goals Primary |
| Focus |
Numeracy/Literacy |
| Key
Skill |
Improving
Own Learning |
| Length |
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| Description |
Materials and Inset available for using the COMPACT Goals (Attendance,
Punctuality, Behaviour & the Key Skills) at KS 2. Different programmes
can be used selectively e.g. to help individual pupils with attendance,
or across whole class/year groups as with the Key Skills programme
which is designed for use over a 6 week period in the summer term
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| Activity
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Maths
Year 2000 |
| Focus |
Maths |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
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| Description |
A
CD ROM containing lesson plans and resources sheets by 60 schools
and businesses across the North West. Inset to access the CD will
be available from Spring 2001 |
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| Activity
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North
West Water - Virtual Reality Wetlands Site |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
A Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre Activity. The pupils will use the NWW
virtual reality package to explore the characteristics of different
birds and fishes found in a wetlands site. Pupils will be provided
with worksheets to help them collect the information they require.
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| Activity
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ICT
- Spreadsheet Activities - Traffic Survey |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
Venue; Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre. To provide pupils with an opportunity
to produce a spreadsheet and then represent this information in a
graphical form. Before attending the centre pupils will collect information
on the number and type of vehicles passing the school or a road nearby.
They will research the number of accidents that have occurred locally
in the last 5 years. At the centre the pupils will design a spreadsheet
and then input their traffic survey into the spreadsheet. The pupils
will then use the spreadsheets to produce pie charts and bar charts.
After an explanation about newspapers and how to present information
the pupils will then have to produce a front page of a newspaper reporting
on the number of cars passing the school and the effect it can have
on peoples lives. The pupils will have to incorporate their spreadsheet
and a graph into their work |
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| Activity
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ICT
- Research skills, comparison of Internet v CD ROM |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
Venue: Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre. Pupils will search the internet
and then Encarta for information that will support their current topic
work. Pupils will then compare the ease of use and the quality of
information obtained from these information sources. |
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| Activity
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Lego
DACTA - Wheels and Axles |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Working
with Others |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
To provide pupils with activities to investigate and understand the
concepts of friction, forces, gravity Pupils will work in teams to
build a wheeled vehicle from plans. Pupils will carry out experiments
using ramps, a range of surfaces and changing items on their vehicle
to investigate forces, motion and friction. Extension activities will
lead to applying the concepts learned in practical context. |
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| Activity
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Mentoring
- Staircase to High School |
| Focus |
Cross
Curricular |
| Key
Skill |
Improving
Own Learning |
| Length |
Delivered
during summer |
| Description |
To introduce the concept of COMPACT goals and planning and target
setting towards high school within the classroom situation in the
first instance and ultimately with the intervention and support of
a mentor A small number of pupils are identified and the mentors are
selected according to the needs of the pupils. The mentor then works
with the children for one lesson a week in the classroom for a two
week familiarisation period The notion of goals is then explained
to the whole class and the children are given a card with daily targets.
If the children meet their targets they are given a stamp by the class
teacher Every week the individual pupils are rewarded by moving up
the staircase to highschool on a big picture on the classroom wall.
This is completed when the mentor is in with the mentored pupils to
encourage, praise set new targets and revise plans. Special achievement
is also rewarded on a special roll of honour The whole activity provides
a structured personal record to complement transition This activity
can be reinforced by the notion of reward ie visits to sports club,
in house prize-giving or visits to companies. |
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| Activity
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Basic
Electrical Circuits |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Information
Technology |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
Venue: Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre. This activity allows pupils to learn
about electrical circuits through practical exploration and the use
of ICT modelling.Pupils will use Oldham COMPACT circuit boards to
explore series circuits, parallel circuits, switches and methods of
varying the current, this activity will be supported by worksheets.
The pupils will use ICT to further explore electrical circuits. |
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| Activity
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Citizen
2000 'Explore Parliament' |
| Focus |
Citizenship |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
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| Description |
A series of activities to support the development of the values ,
skills and understanding underpinned by the new government document
. The activity wil promote an understanding of for example; the vocabulary
of citizenship and the procedures and protocol of debates. And will
develop skills in for example being able to take turns when speaking
or expressing an opinion. Pupils will develop their research and IT
skills through the use of VR tour of the House of Commons |
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| Activity
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Desk
Top Publishing - Celebration Cards |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
Venue: Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre. Pupils will be designing a celebration
card to suit the time of year ( birthday, Christmas, Easter, Eid,
etc) Pupils will investigate the factors that make a good card. They
will use KID PIX to design the front cover and then Claris Works to
produce the card. Pupils will leave the centre with their cards produced.
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| Activity
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Virtual
Travel Agency |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
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| Description |
This one day Partnership Centre activity places teams of pupils into
real life simulations, as customers booking holidays over the telephone,
ans as travel agents dealing with customer enquiries. The activity
develops communication skills, form filling skills, telephone technique,
the application of IT, and letter writing skills. |
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| Activity
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Crystal
Maze (Under Development) |
| Focus |
Numeracy |
| Key
Skill |
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| Length |
1
day |
| Description |
This Partnership Centre Activity aims to raise pupils motivation and
achievement through experiencing an activity based on the Problems
in real life section of the Maths Strategy document Pupils will be
able to understand and solve problems about numbers in real life.
Pupils will have knowledge, understanding and the ability to apply
these from other areas of maths I.e. money and measures. |
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| Activity
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Lego
DACTA - Control of Machines |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
1
day |
| Description |
This activity at the Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre aims to raise students
achievement in Design Technology and ICT through developing pupils
skills and knowledge of control systems Pupils will build simple machines
and then write instructions to make the machine follow a sequence
of events. Pupils will be able to; Build a simple machine using Lego
DACTA, Create, test, modify and store sequences of instructions to
control the machine they have built. |
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| Activity
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Curriculum
Materials |
| Focus |
National
Curriculum |
| Key
Skill |
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| Length |
Various
- delivered in school |
| Description |
The following sets of materials have been designed to raise pupils
motivation and contribute to raising achievement, by enhancing and
showing the delivery of the National Curriculum, through collaborative
activities with local businesses:-
The Huddersfield Canal Project, Contrasting Localities (Oldham & Blackpool),
Vehicles and Flight, Chamber House Farm, Looking at the World of Work,
Shopping, Coronation Street and the National Curriculum, Growth and
Change, Food, Pattern and Shape, The Victorians, Colour - Light -Sound
and Electricity, Healthy Living, Water Plants and Animals. |
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| Activity
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North
West Water - Virtual Reality Food Chains |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
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| Description |
A Partnership Centre activity that uses a VR programme to explore
food chains in a woodland and pond environment. Pupils will gather
information on different animals and plants and then use this information
to build food chains. |
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| Activity
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Study
Support - Young Investigations |
| Focus |
Science |
| Key
Skill |
Working
with Others |
| Length |
10
x 1hr sessions per term |
| Description |
Pupils will undertake practical 'hands on' problem solving activitiyes
that will develop their knowledge and understanding of scientific
principles. Pupils will qualify for Bronze, Silver and Gold awards
depending on the number of activities they succesfully complete. |
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| Activity
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ICT
- Spreadsheet Activity - Tudors |
| Focus |
ICT |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
1
Day |
| Description |
Venue: Oldham COMPACT/EBP Centre. To provide pupils with an opportunity
to produce a spreadsheet from information relating to the reason people
died during the plauge. Then represent this information in a graphical
form. The pupils will then use the spreadsheets to produce pie charts
and bar charts. After an explanation about newspapers and how to present
information the pupils will then have to produce a front page of a
newspaper reporting on the disaster facing London from the plague.
The pupils will have to incorporate their spreadsheet and a graph
into the report. |
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| Activity
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Lego
Dacta - Investigating Gears |
| Focus |
Design
Technology |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
Half
a term |
| Description |
To introduce pupils to the principles of gears and develop their understanding
of how gears work and how they are used in simple machines. Pupils
will build a number of small machines to help them explore and understand
the principles of gears. The pupils will be provided with opportunities
to modify the machines to operate in different ways. They will then
be set a problem to solve. |
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| Activity
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Intergenerational
Mentoring |
| Focus |
Citizenship |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
10
weeks x 1 hour |
| Description |
Working with Age Concern to bring older people in touch with ICT.
The work involves working with school pupils on reminiscence projects,
some projects have also included cross phase working |
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