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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 school based activity. The pupils will use the NWW virtual reality
package to explore the food chain found in a wetlands site. Pupils
will be provided with a master worksheets to help them collect the
information they require. Pupils will know that:
different habitats support different plants and animals.
In food webs there are several food chains with species in common. |
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| Activity
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Investigating
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary |
| Focus |
Geography |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
4
Weeks |
| Description |
A display and support material that can be loaned by the school. The
display covers a primary industry, the quarrying of stone, and includes
work sheets for the pupils. An optional visit to a manufacturing company
to allow students to see a secondary industry. This can be followed
up by investigating the materials that local companies import and
export. Students will write to companies asking for information. |
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| Activity
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Lego
DACTA Control Intelligent House |
| Focus |
ICT
and DT |
| Key
Skill |
Application
of Number |
| Length |
1
day |
| Description |
This activity at the Partnership Centre has been designed to provide
pupils with the challenge of producing a fully operational model of
an automated house, to the required specification. Pupils will be
able to:
plan, develop, test and modify sets of instructions and procedures
to control events using feedback and measuring and recording physical
variables, and will investigate various devices that control the functions
of a house, for example security, heating. |
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| Activity
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Mentoring
: Pupil Development Programme |
| Focus |
Compact
Goals |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
2
Days |
| Description |
This activity at the Partnership Centre aims to raise levels of aspiration
and potential of selected pupils. Part 1 A small group 5/6 pupils
meet for 1 half day with the COMPACT team to plan a programme for
fellow pupils
Part 2 A group of 15-20 pupils will attend the centre to take part
in the planned programme. Outside speakers are involved to discuss
and debate issues around truancy behaviour, value of education, future
aspirations etc.
The second day is spent in preparing ideas to take back into school
At the end of the 2 days the students carry out a self assessment
of their key skills development and identify their goals within the
COMPACT goal framework The pupils may also become mentors for lower
school pupils. |
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| Activity
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Thinking
kits / Reviewing Skills |
| Focus |
PHSE |
| Key
Skill |
Improving
Own Learning |
| Length |
From
1 hour to 8x1 hour |
| Description |
A course of up to 7 lessons designed to develop the full range of
skills that contribute to the overall skill of self review.
Pupils will have an awareness of; :what success means to you, your
unlimited potential, what qualities and talents you have and how to
make your goals become reality. |
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| Activity
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Curriculum
Materials |
| Focus |
National
Curriculum |
| Key
Skill |
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| Length |
Various
- delivered in |
| 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
Shopping, Coronation Street and the National Curriculum, Colour -
Light - Sound and Electricity, Healthy Living, Water Plants and Animals,
Investigating Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industry |
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| Activity
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Class
Mentoring |
| Focus |
Cross
Curricular |
| Key
Skill |
Improving
Own Learning |
| Length |
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| Description |
Whole class work to targets for the COMPACT Goals, they are supported
by weekly visits from a mentor from business/the community |
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| Activity
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Face
to Face |
| Focus |
PHSE |
| Key
Skill |
Communication |
| Length |
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| Description |
Pupils take part in a half day workshop which begins with sketches
focussing upon communication. The students then talk in an open forum
about the sketches and are led to see reflections of their own experiences.
The students are introduced to the Careers Adviser who reinforces
the theme.
The students identify targets up to the end of year 9 and beyond within
the COMPACT Goal framework.
The workshop can be accomodated within the New Start programme or
for pupils who are disaffected |
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| Activity
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Study
Support - Control Problems |
| Focus |
Technology |
| Key
Skill |
Information
Technology |
| Length |
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| Description |
An after school activity, pupils from Oldham Schools taking part in
problem solving activities using computer controlled LEGO DACTA robotics.
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| Activity
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Year
9 Music Programme |
| Focus |
Music |
| Key
Skill |
Working
with Others |
| Length |
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| Description |
Under development with North Chadderton and Kaskenmoor Schools, in
association with Roland Keyboards UK. |
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