Jun 09 2009
no jotters
Despite the enormous gaps in my timetable due to study leave, I’ve remained pretty busy. Having had only a peripheral involvement in other activities at school, there seems, for me, to have been a massive shift from working with pupils to working with other members of staff. The driving force has been the coming of Curriculum for Excellence for our new S1 cohort who will join the school this August.
As a faculty, we’ve recently had a series of sessions looking at what CfE might mean for us. The opinions expressed in these meetings are diverse and I have been genuinely surprised by just how radical some of my colleagues have been thinking when presented with a blank sheet of paper.
That’s radical as in
- no jotters
- current S1 notes sent to paper recycling skip
- staff issued with magnets to display pupils’ work on our (steel) classroom walls
- pupils to get scrap book and A3 portfolio pouch to store their work
- consensus that records/evidence of pupils achieving new science outcomes might not be written or paper-based artefacts (Flip camera?!)
We have a CfE inset coming up that may allow us the time to hang some further details on this set of ideas.