Keith Plant

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• Keith Plant
• Deputy Head
• Responsible for BEC

• Adele Hulme
• Subject Leader for German
• PINC Co-ordinator

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1429 pupils on roll
Specialist Status in BEC since 2003
On Average 75 A-C GCSE
Hard working staff
50 of staff have been with us for over 25 years

• Ofsted say
• Alsager School is a good school. Leaders at all
  levels share a very clear focus on improving
  teaching and learning in order to raise
  achievement.
• Students attain standards well beyond the
  national average

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• Why change . . . ?
• if it aint broke, dont fix it
• ageing staff
• Disappointing appointments who hadnt delivered
• Big school with hard working culture
• Good results
• Why risk throwing that out of the window for
  the unknown?
• Why bother changing . . . ?

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For pupils

• Fun
• Promise something different
• Inexpensive
• Easily accessible

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For staff

• Fun
• No additional work (well for everyone else)
• An opportunity to share something that they
  enjoyed/ were good at
• A chance to build different relationships with
  pupils and colleagues

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Particip8ing
Innov8ing
Negoti8ing
Co-oper8ing
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Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things that you didnt do
than by the ones that you do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
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• Developing a specialist school ethos
• Pupil voice
• Learning outside the curriculum
• Creativity in the curriculum
• Outreach work with schools
• Outreach work with the community
• Learning Gains

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Developing a specialist school ethos
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PUPIL VOICE
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If the school has a philosophy of engaging with
its students, harnessing their energy and
enthusiasm, and giving children responsibility
for their lives and learning, the school council
will be in harmony with the school ethos.
The more the students are given opportunities to
demonstrate how much their participation can
contribute to the well-being of the school, the
more that democratic engagement will strengthen
the school ethos. Thus a vicious circle will be
created.
Bernard Trafford (Head Wolverhampton Grammar
School) 2006
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Learning outside the classroom
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Trebor
Trident
Maynards
Halls Mentholyptus
Dr Pepper
Double Decker
Heroes
Hot Chocolate
Cream Eggs
Crunchies
Biscuits
Bassetts
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Creativity in schools needs to be taken far
more seriously if it is to avoid being squeezed
out of a crowded curriculum
was a recent report on the BBC website
Successful schools are creative schools
said the Commons education committee chairman,
Labour MP Barry Sheerman
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Outreach work with other schools
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The difficult question . . .
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What are our learning gains?
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Very few schools had developed assessment tools
for teacher and peer assessments.
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• Paper-based assessment
• On line assessment
• Portfolios
• Log books
• Some are tick boxes,
• others allow space for text

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How have I done?
PET is assessment speak for Personal
Effectiveness Tool
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• Having an effective assessment tool
• A system to monitor students progression
• in enterprise capability

None of the schools visited had achieved all of
these factors but several were working towards
putting them in place
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• Activities
• Specify levels
• Specify progression
• Clarify learning objectives
• Show learning gains

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Enjoy and achieve
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