Are you meeting this guideline from OfSTED?

As a Head of Teaching & Learning in your school it will be important to you that are doing everything you can to ensure you receive the best possible OfSTED report.

“OfSTED will look at how the school uses self-evaluation to develop and improve. OfSTED says that the quality of the self-evaluation is an indicator of calibre of the school’s leaders and managers and the school’s capacity to improve.”

OfSTED have said how highly they rate the leadership of a school that is using self-evaluation and review to improve teaching.

“Using Classwatch video, I learnt more in 30 minutes about my teaching than I have in the last 8 years”

Watch our video to see why teachers are using Classwatch video in their primary schools for self- evaluation and sharing of best practice.

With the Classwatch video system:

  • Colleagues can observe a lesson remotely
  • Your teachers have an opportunity for self-evaluation
  • The lesson can be reviewed and discussed with the teacher
  • You can share great lessons with other teachers in your school.

You can watch a short video on our website to see testimonials from the teachers who are already using Classwatch – and hear what they say about their experiences – just click the link below to see why Classwatch is now in 330 classrooms (and rising) around the UK.

We have a FAQs information sheet and a brochure with full details of how the Classwatch video system could work in your school.

Please click here to arrange for a copy to be sent to you or to arrange a free demo at your school and at your convenience.

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Clocks 25% Discount for all Schools

Ravencourt Ltd are now giving schools and colleges 25% discount off all clocks

Simply enter Voucher Code EDUCATION25 at checkout

Sizes range from 25cm classroom clocks up to huge 60cm Exam and Hall clocks.

Safety glass lenses are a superb feature for schools making them vandal resistant and safe.

Clear Easy to read dials Ideal for Exams

Radio controlled clocks set themselves to correct time and automatically adjust for summer and winter time, saving you time and making sure all clocks are always correct.

For more information or to place an order go to www.ravencourt.com
Or phone: 01780 489100, fax: 01780 489099
Don’t forget to use code EDUCATION25 to qualify for discount.

Automatic 30 day account for all UK schools and colleges.

 

5 tips for challenging your gifted students when studying Animal Farm

 

How to challenge your gifted and talented students when studying Animal Farm as part of their GCSE in English Literature:

  1. Give your students control over their own learning by setting a variety of activities they could complete when studying the key aspects of the novel, so they choose what’s appropriate for them.
  2. Link the novel to wider reading such as Macbeth, 1984 and Gulliver’s Travels and the wider context, such as Soviet Russia and the Russian Revolution.
  3. Use all levels of Blooms Taxonomy when setting activities and questions, particularly the top levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
  4. Prompt specificity in exam answers and show how it can be achieved through A* examples for your exam board.
  5. Set explorative questions to prompt deep literal and abstract analyses of characters, themes, language, structure and form.
How does Orwell use false logic in the line: ‘Certainly the animals did not want Jones back; if the holding of debates on Sunday mornings was liable to bring him back, then the debates must stop’?

In his essay ‘Why I Write’, Orwell wrote that Animal Farm was a book in which he wanted to ‘fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole’. What do you think this means?

How effectively do you think Orwell fuses together the artistic and the political in this passage? Explain your answer and give examples to support your points.

Choose another passage from the novel which you think expresses Orwell’s ideas particularly well.

Either: write a detailed analysis of how Orwell’s ideas are expressed in your chosen extract

Or: With a partner, each choose a different passage and write five challenging questions on the ideas in the selected extracts. Then see if you can tackle each other’s questions.

The extract above and all of the tips have been applied to the ZigZag Education Animal Farm Calls Gifted and Talented Pack for GCSE.

To preview and order, go to http://zzed.co.uk/WE23


 

Available as a photocopy master with site licence (£84): also available as a printable PDF file (£84+30%+vat) and an editable Word file (£84+50%+vat).

Please reference WE23 when placing your order to receive free postage & packaging.

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