1. KS3 Skills to Succeed

2. The big plan… To develop and deliver a skills-based curriculum. Improve student’s transferrable skills from subject to subject. Increase engagement and motivation through providing exciting learning opportunities. Plan opportunities throughout the year for focused enrichment. Ensure that students are working in areas outside of their comfort zone. Recognising the importance of teamwork

3. 90 year 8 students. Students are required to produce and market a French face cream. All students to meet in the hall and work in a team of 6. Students will be forced into working alongside other students that they might not usually work with. 3 Workshops running at the same time – teams decide which members should go to which workshop. Feedback – “what did you learn at your workshop?” Production and trade fair Evaluation and implementing “How will you use the skills that you have learnt about today in RE tomorrow?” The trial... Face cream?

4. Parents – unaware of relevance of current assessment? What do levels mean? Make accompanying level descriptor sheet more explicit? Place in planner? Parents – unaware of projected assessment? Do students get given enough opportunities for assessment? ▫More common = less of a chore = more chance to succeed? Eg APP development. Are students informed about how they can improve across the whole school? Current assessment problems @ KS3

5. 6 days throughout the year where school timetable collapsed, with scope for more (or less). Year group split into 3 - 6 groups, depending on activities. Subject Co-ordinator’s responsible for a year groups activities and 2 S2S days throughout the year, eg year 7 in term 1, year 9 in term 5. Each S2S day focussing on skills from PLTS. Possible activities = Trips, external visitors, project days, problem solving sessions etc. Scope for being adventurous. Logistics = difficult and would need to be co- ordinated centrally. Clevedon S2S Days: Skills to Succeed

6. Assessment = difficult, particularly in large groups. Possibly done as a follow up session, this reiterating the skills that they have learnt? Videoing students? Portfolio? Too much work? PLTS based – will the students go for this? No assessment? Is this simply enrichment? S2S Assessment – our dilemma