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Making Places:
Creating Learning Conference
08.15

Registration and coffee
09.00

Setting the Context for the day by Matthew Milburn & Jacqui Rothery, Headteachers of Kingstone and Holgate Schools
09.15 

Keynote One:  Steve Davies
09.50

Getting the best from the workshops – collating questions and the plenary panel by  Matthew Milburn
10.00

Workshop One – Pedagogy – Assessment for Living

Choose from:
  • Jane Hewitt/Elaine Millard - 'Assessment for Living: a way of assessing creativity'
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    'What more is there more to assessment than ascribing levels? At the end of a wonderfully creative year is it appropriate to provide the student and parents with the information -You are a level 5b and you target of 5a; even if we do follow this up with a detailed plan of what to do next?'
  • Chris Ellis/Ondrie Mann - 'Thematic Teaching and Learning'
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  • Debbie Kidd - 'Seeing Anew - Planning for Creative Learning'
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      What is a creative lesson? How do we know that we are teaching for creativity and not simply teaching creatively? How do we model creative skills yet manage spaces in place and time to allow others' skills to flourish? And what do we do about behaviour? What if the most creative kid is the one you just sent to isolation? This workshop explores these questions and more and aims to help us to see our classrooms and the people in them anew.

    Debra Kidd is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of Integrate Education.
    11.15

    Coffee and networking
    11.30

    Workshop Two – Consultation and Discussion Case Studies : with school leaders and architects

      Choose from:
     
  • Springwell Community Special School
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  • The Dearne High ALC
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  • Carlton Community College
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      Carlton Community College has been formed as a result of two merging secondary schools and has operated since last September over a split site. The new build will open on January 14th to allow staff and pupils to move in and we will be up and running on the 24th January. The design has been developed to provide flexible working spaces to support the transforming learning agenda, areas to support multi-agency working as well as extended services and a curriculum that facilitates 21st century learning.
     
  • The Holgate Kingstone ALC
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    12.30

    Lunch
    13.20

    Workshop Three – Design Fitting Purpose

      Choose from:
     
  • Tom Weaver (Flywheel Limited) - People Centred Space
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      This will draw on some of the latest research and thinking to show how we can design environments around the needs and requirements of people, as opposed to the organisation, showcasing some of the latest thinking from Space for Personalised Learning and other cutting edge projects.
     
  • Jeremy Abrahams - 'The Local Authority View'
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      An active and practical workshop which will involve you in considering how new learning environments – such as Barnsley’s Advanced Learning Centre designs - can support improvements in learning. Consideration will be given to what we mean by improved learning and the change management and staff development processes which accompany it.
     
  • Andrew De Rosa - 'Ensuring Specialist Spaces Fulfil Your School's Vision'
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  • James Copp - 'Engaging Learners in the Design Process'
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      An interactive workshop examining how engaging young people in the evaluation and design of multi-use teaching and learning environments can be integrated into the delivery of a creative curriculum.

    14.30

    Plenary Panel  -  ten things to think about when designing a new school/designing a new curriculum
    15.15

    Formal day finishes.