You are invited to a one-day workshop by one of the world’s top educationalists in one of the UK’s most radical and creative schools on

Tuesday June 4th 9.30-3.45pm at Victoria Park Primary Academy, Sandwell, West Midlands.

The workshop is appropriate for school and curriculum leaders in Nursery, Primary and Secondary schools. The cost is only £100.00 per person including lunch.

Spaces are limited so please apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. For more information on making a booking visit the workshop website here.

We are delighted to publish Quality Mark practitioners in both Lead Teacher and Learning Support sectors in Primary Phases. They are from St Aidan’s Catholic Primary School, Redbridge where the Head Teacher, Helen Brown has ensured all her staff has had deep training whatever their role is in the school.
Lead Practitioner certificates are awarded to:
Jennifer [...]

Creative Teaching and Learning: Incorporating creativity and critical thinking into your school.

The school curriculum is changing, and we need creativity in our classrooms more than ever before. Michael Gove may be ploughing on with his plans for a new facts-based curriculum, but Ofsted are increasingly stressing the need for learner engagement, lively creative teaching, the use of dialogic teaching approaches and student collaboration…

Tuesday May 21st, 2013 & October 22nd, 2013

The staff and children of Grimley and Holt CE Primary School invite you to visit their school for a Mantle of the Expert Study Day.

Watch experienced class teachers harness children’s natural ability to place them in the driving seat of their learning.

This letter was originally published by Debra Kidd – @debrakidd – on her website Love Learning

Debra was the only practicing teacher invited to sign the “100 Academics” letter published in the Independent – “100 academics savage Education Secretary Michael Gove for ‘conveyor-belt curriculum’ for schools”

Many teachers contacted Debra asking if they could add their voices to the protest. This is her response.

In the past few years much has changed on the educational stage in the UK and internationally. Drama for learning methods as well as the adoption of Mantle of the Expert systems in many learning contexts is becoming more widespread in the UK and in several other countries.
In response to these exciting developments we have initiated a Quality Mark for the application and development of Mantle of the Expert in schools where the use of the system is significantly affecting school wide curriculum structures and pedagogy…

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
It’s been a busy term for Big Brum, with both The Edge and The Giant’s Embrace touring schools. This week we are off to Rouen to meet with colleagues from Hungary, Spain and France and continue to celebrate and explore the work of Edward Bond. While there, Big Brum will be performing [...]

News in this month’s newsletter:

• introduction to www.imaginative-inquiry.co.uk
• news on extra weekends at Ringsfield Hall
• conference information
• study days at training schools and networks
• mantle of the expert in Palestine
• new photograph gallery of Dorothy Heathcote working in the 1970s and 80s
• information on the draft national curriculum
• word clouds comparing the new draft curriculum and the existing curriculum 2000.

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MoE Newsletter March 2013

Following the success of their previous training events, and a sell out for the next one in June, Woodrow have arranged a further study day for 9th October, 2013.
As a national training school Woodrow First School hold termly Study Days for Mantle of the Expert. These days give visitors the opportunity to:
• observe best practice [...]