How we work together

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How we work together

• Planning
• Ideas
• Rationale
• Outcome
• Evaluation

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Example of an Event Mock Election

• Enterprise group and Citizenship coordinator get
  together to plan event.
• Draw up plans under guidelines of Curriculum for
  Excellence.
• Ask for money! (And time.)
• Approach P.Ts asking for support.
• Allocate tasks.
• Coordinate event.

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Mock Election.

• What benefits for pupils did we expect from the
  event?
• How could we be inclusive?
• How do we involve our local community?
• How can we employ skills/talents?
• In what way is this a learning experience for our
  young people?
• How does this enhance teaching/learning?
• How does this benefit staff development?

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Mock Election

• Is it do-able in the given time?
• Do we have the resources we need?
• How do we get maximum publicity?
• Do we have the support of SMT?
• Will our teaching/depts suffer as a result?

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ACTION!

• Committee of teachers/pupils.
• Depts on board.
• SMT on board.
• Pupils committed.
• Dates now written in stone.No going back!
• News gets around.

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Run up to the Big Event Campaigning.

• Home Ecs. made rosettes.
• English dept Worked with candidates on speeches
  and alerted local press.
• Art dept Photos and posters.
• All (O.K, most) staff displaying posters and
  accommodating inconvenience of forthcoming
  events.
• Political parties sent in election materials.
• Librarian displayed information.

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The Big Event Hustings.

• Depute Head as official photographer.
• Canteen staff catered for visitors.
• Cleaning/janitorial staff aware of extra work,
  but excellent.
• P.E dept crowd control!
• Languages tickets/seating.
• Sciences Supervision.
• Partnership officer Electronic poll.

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Role of Enterprise Co-ordinator

• Ashlings own Drama expertise influenced the
  proceedings.
• Used her enterprise group to organise lighting,
  music, sound system, (mics supplied by Music
  dept.)
• Group organised ticketing of event to ensure
  crowd control.

• Allowed the group freedom supervised at a
  distance!

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What did pupils gain from this?

• Via Citizenship input to PSHE, learned how
  elections work, and how to vote.
• Enhanced learning of Social subjects.
• Speech writing and public speaking enhanced
  language skills.
• On election day, Maths dept did count and
  analysed results hands-on statistics!
• Learned the value of people power.
• Witnessed co-operation of staff ethos.

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What did Enterprise gain from this?

• Opportunity to organise a large-scale event.
• Opportunity to meet representatives from
  community and press-useful links.
• Solved logistical problems.
• Learned technical skills.
• Gained confidence.
• Evaluated for future reference.

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Curriculum for Excellence Evaluation.

• EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS
• All pupils had opportunity to participate at some
  level.
• Inclusion Less able students given equal opps.
• Pupils took ownership of task.
• Worked with pupils and staff together.

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Responsible Citizens.

• Learned the value of people power.
• Got to vote.
• Linked to other events pupil council, Youth
  parliament election.
• Enterprise group took on the responsibility.
• Learned the importance of commitment.
• Hands-on learning experience.

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Successful Learners

• Standard Grade results in History/Modern Studies
  were excellent.
• Students normally challenged by public speaking
  gained in confidence.
• Enhanced skills in Drama for senior pupils
  (lighting, sound etc.)
• Only 30 spoilt ballot papers in a very complex
  election!

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Confident Individuals.

• Fame at last MSPs included candidates on
  websites.
• Chatted with party representatives.
• Spoke confidently in public.
• Learned appropriate use of humour and how to
  reach an audience.
• Voted with confidence.
• Displays of event throughout school and local
  press celebrating success.
• Those who organised moved on to other events.

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Future Projects

• We intend to hold a fashion show in aid of the
  Alexandra Stark Foundation
• S5/6 Young Enterprise Group have taken on the
  responsibility of managing the event.
• S5 classes will assist them in the organisation.

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Getting Started

• The pupils are already very enthusiastic about
  this event and have contacted several companies
  to ask for support.
• This is an event that will involve the wider
  community whilst also raising awareness of this
  charity.
• We hope to gain the support of the whole school
  with departments contributing where possible.

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Over to you

• Using the following co-operative learning task
  think of how you would go about organising an
  event like the two we have just described.
• How will you involve each department in the
  school to make it truly cross curricular?

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Co-operative Learning Task