23 February 2012

Your Learning for Life Network

We believe education works best when we collaborate - here's your chance to do just that! If you've subscribed to any of our solutions you can become involved in the Network by contributing to our forum, offer your advice, creative ideas and experiences. If you have developed great resources you're ready to share with our other schools, upload them here. Or download other schools' materials to try out for yourself, then leave comments about how they worked.

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"The Network Meeting has been an excellent opportunity to talk to colleagues, share ideas and firm up my own thinking." Senior Leader, Wakefield City Academy.

"Having a Network Meeting to share ideas and discuss key issues like engaging employers has been so valuable. I feel I am leaving the meeting with strategies to move forward." Senior Leader, Frankley Community High School.

“The regular Network Meetings provide excellent opportunities to share good practice with colleagues fom other schools." Senior Leader, Tupton Hall School.

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Employability Schools

The CBI have invited us to talk to them about 'Employability Schools'. These are schools with employability skills embedded within the curriculum. They have suggested that we work together with some of our network schools to provide case studies of how it can work.

Employability in Teesside

Our thanks to the Head and her staff at Sacred Heart RC School in Redcar who hosted an employer engagement event recently.

Having taken employers through the TRICS paradigm we showed them how they could work in the curriculum, using part of our Enterprise Discovery Day and a group of dynamic Year 9 Lead Learners we'd trained the day before.

Employers were very positive about TRICS. "Students leaving with these skills developed in school will be at a greater advantage than those leaving without them. We'd like to see this idea developed within our own organisation!"

It was down, in no small part, to the understanding of the students who have grasped TRICS so well, after just 2 months!

Diary Dates - Learning for Life Network Meetings

Monday 23rd January - we need schools at this event - so we can gather stories to put into Case Studies for Edexcel and the CBI. We also plan to develop TRICS+ with those schools present.

Tuesday 13th March to share practice, insights and further develop work on the Learning for Life BTEC

Wednesday 16th May - to look at Transition Planning (KS2 and Post 16 transitions)

Hope you can join our growing band of educational innovators!

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