2. A Brief History…
Small Rural Secondary
Alresford, Hampshire
11-16 school
1,100 students
72 teaching staff
3. Setting the Scene
• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)
• Digital projectors in every room
• All users with school/home email access
• Moodle (VLE) since 2004
• Mahara eportfolios since 2007
• A 1:1 notebook scheme for students (98% uptake)
• Managed site wide wireless network
• OneDrive on notebooks
• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)
• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks
4. What is Transformational Learning?
Enquiry based and challenge
learning
Higher order
thinking
skills
collaboration
reflection,
evaluation
“flipped”
learning
6Rs PLTS
21st
Century
tools
Digital
pedagogy
samr
5. We want students who leave Perins
Independence
Resilient
Relationships Balanced
Achieving
potential
To have skills for Life Long learning
6. Series of Projects
2 x 2hrs per week
Assessed through PLTS
Not subject focused
Delivered by 8 different specialists
7. How it works?
• All of the courses are
created on……
• Students evidence
their work via….
• ..Using a range of tools
but focusing on..
8. 2013 Projects Titles…
Year 7
• Create a Nation
• 7 Billion Ideas
• Things that go Bump
in the Night
• Ignore it, Share it,
Solve it
• Face Bug
Year 8
• An Inspector Calls
• Product Wars
• Human Rights, Human
Wrongs
• Sensational Science
• Trash Fashion
24. The Students work….
• Is creative
• Is personalised
• Is worked on between lessons
• Is peer reviewed
• Is fed back to
• Is honest
• Is their own best efforts!