Teaching and Learning and the MLE Case study: Year 2 Class Pippa Dorman Curriculum Consultant

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Teaching and Learning and the MLECase study
Year 2 ClassPippa DormanCurriculum Consultant
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• Primary School, Newham
• Keen Headteacher and SLT
• Support from other pilot schools
• E-learning co-ordinator driving project
• Roll-out into another class

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• Unit 2A Health and Growth
• Healthy eating
• Exercise
• Life cycle of animals
• Medicine

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Unit 2A Health and Growth Expectations
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• Class Resources
• 2 networked computers
• 1 class whiteboard
• Access to a resource room with wireless internet
  access
• Set of laptops
• LGfL premium content
• Student teacher

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• Addressing expectations through use of the MLE
  tools
• 1. Healthy eating
• Raise awareness of own diet through the use of a
  food diary (conversation forum)
• Look at links to BBC schools healthy eating
  website, with a balanced lunchbox activity
• Link to LGfL premium content, Virtual
  Experiments, to investigate different food
  groups.

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• Addressing expectations through use of the MLE
  tools
• 2. Exercise
• Use online diary (conversation forum) to track
  pupil exercise throughout the term
• Add photographs from PE lessons to enhance and
  further personalise the diary
• Provide links to premium LGfL i-board content
  body labelling activity
• Provide links to local sporting initiative links
  as well as sporting websites with healthy
  examples of athletes and athletic activities.

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• Addressing expectations through use of the MLE
  tools
• 3. Life cycle of animals
• Live feed from an LGfL webcam in a Greenwich
  birdbox embedded into the frontpage. Children are
  able to watch eggs hatch and chick development in
  real time
• Speaking and listening opportunity Children
  record sound files inside the MLE reporting on
  similarities and differences on how chicks are
  looked after and how the children themselves are
  looked after.
• Access to LGfL i-board life cycle ordering
  activity for less able

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• Addressing expectations through use of the MLE
  tools
• 4. Medicine
• A question and answer forum created for children
  to pose questions about medical drugs to a nurse.
  The nurse will be given a login and answer the
  childrens questions.

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• Conclusion
• Focussing on one specific area of the curriculum
  enabled the teacher to create a room which
  enhanced and complemented teaching and learning.
• This was not a case of having to squeeze in
  extra work.