Parents as Partners Evening ‘The Calder Edge’ Tuesday 10 th December 2019
Question: What is the PixLEdge? Answer: A national programme for young people, allowing them to develop life skills and essential personal attributes.
Reality TV - what personal skills does it take to be a winner?
Who is involved in the PiXL Edge? • Over one million school/college based students aged between 8 – 18 years old • Young people in schools all over England and Wales • Young people in every kind of school – comprehensive, grammar, private, boarding etc…
What is PixLEdge? • An opportunity to make students attractive to further education providers (FE colleges/unis) and future employers • The opportunity to sharpen your school’s Personal Development programme and give it the EDGE!
What is PixLEdge? • An opportunity for students to develop important skills/attributes for life: Leadership Organisation Resilience Initiative Communication
Get your LORIC skills right and ‘You’re Hired’!
What will ‘ The Calder E dge’ look like for students? • Students in Years 7 attend a’ launch assembly’ in January. • Each of the 5 LORIC attributes are introduced through assemblies or tutor time every half term – this will start in the first week back in January with ‘Communication’ • Students will have one tutorial period covering course content every Wednesday – (Edge Reg) • To gain an ‘Apprentice Award’ students need to complete successfully two ‘personal challenges’ for each LORIC attribute (10 in total) • Learning4Life days will have a CalderEDGE focus for Year 7 students both in terms of task completion and recording of evidence in your log book • A ‘Certification and Celebration’ event will be held for those who attain their Apprenticeship in December 2020. We hope at least 95% of students get this!!!
Year 7 Programme Monday SMSC/news Tuesday WOW word Wednesday Edge Reg Thursday Silent Reading Friday Assembly
Personal Challenges: The 5 must do’s Leadership – Take responsibility for the teaching of an element of a lesson in any subject. Organisation – Assemble a presentation on a topic of your choice and present it in a subject lesson or tutor period. Resilience – Achieve an attendance of 95% or above so far this academic year. Initiative – Create a poster publicising the work of a chosen charity or charitable initiative. Communication – Write to your old primary school telling Year 6 what life is like at secondary school.
LORIC – Communication (PC2 = your choice - examples from the booklet) Write … … a series of articles for the school magazine or website Write … … & deliver a speech as part of an organised class debate Speak … … about an issue that is important to you & present your views to a tutor group Act … … as a guide on Open Evening, directing people & answering questions Present … … a demonstration on a practical skill in a subject lesson Perform … … a self -composed dialogue with a partner in a taught language to your class Prepare … … prepare a poster/flyer that can be used to promote the end of year Art exhibition Prepare … … a set of resources (podcasts, blogs, videos, revision guides) on a subject topic in Geography to share with peers to aid revision … recite a poem that challenges you, perform it to a small audience including an Recite .. English teacher or librarian
8KCH and friends helping to restore the eco garden to former glories!
The Vision for Education Calder Edge Year 8 Presentation Awards Evening December 2020
Year 8 Calder Champions 8 JPN - Sam Bradshaw 8 AHN - Maisy Short 8 RPR - Annie Lavender 8 KSR - Katie Kemp-Riley 8 KCH - Isla Lee-Grant 8 JKN - Ellacie-Kay Hemmings 8 RWW - Jasmine Rawnsley
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