The Y12 Sociology students have completed an extended learning project this half term which covers a key part of the A2 specification on crime statistics. There is a considerable amount of research that suggests that projects of this nature are successful in developing the critical skills that students need and a depth of understanding that other, more traditional, teaching techniques do not always achieve.
Ron Berger in his book “An Ethic of Excellence” discusses the impact of project based learning and the idea of making work public. He says that if work is made public “There is a reason to do the work well”. Student feedback suggests that the students agree with much of what Berger says and I certainly would agree based on the visual displays they produced and the excellent verbal presentations.
Have a look at the work they produced and decide for yourself!
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Oliver, our Library Correspondent reports: During last week the Library held an extra Speaker’s Corner on Thursday. Jack in Y13, the head of the group, talked about what the Warhammer Club was and how far it had come since its launch in 2009. Jack, who will be leaving the school, announced that Sam in Y8 would continue running the club next year. At the end of the talk the audience voted for the best model displayed (a hard choice, considering the quality of them).
The 6th Annual Foreign Language Festival took place on Thursday 17th July and proved, once again, to be a highly motivational event focused on the creative use of Foreign Languages – mostly familiar and some less so.
Two groups of ‘EPQ’ students from Y12 have visited our local University library over the last two weeks. They were given access to a wide variety of online and printed resources to assist them in their research for the Extended Project Qualification.
