Rationale

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Rationale

• Sink or Swim
• Support in all aspects of learning
• Learning for life
• Sustainable learning

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Organisation

• Organised into a number of projects of varying
  length.
• Students will work in small teams of 4 or 5.
• Staffing will be 6 teachers per half Year group.
• Each teacher will have responsibility to
  facilitate the learning of one group of students.
  (3 or 4 teams)
• Each facilitator will have a base room for their
  group

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Learning Outcomes and Assessment

• Focus for assessment will be on the process and
  the learning capacities the students will
  develop.
• Outcomes for projects, are primarily to give
  students something to work towards.
• On all final outcomes, any student in a team may
  be quizzed about any part of the project.
• Interim reviews with facilitators during the
  project and on completion
• Students will be expected to spend at least half
  an hour per week on personal reflection.
• At the end of each project students will spend
  time assessing their performance against their
  agreed areas of focus.

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At the beginning of any project

• Introduction to the project (usually to the whole
  
• half year)
• Students return to Learning Bases with their
  LF
• LF organises Teams
• Students are given access to any pre-prepared
  
• resources and list of seminars
• Students develop the ideas for their project
  and
• plan accordingly

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At the end of a Project

• Students Present/Display/Perform discuss their
  findings and results. To the rest of the teams
  in their Base room. They will act as judges as
  to whether or not the project has been successful
• Presentations to external panel in the Theatre.
  Due to numbers not every team will be able to
  present to an external panel. This will be done
  on rotation.
• Back in Base rooms students will individually
  review/reflect on their progress.