Vangeboskolen- seen through an english visitors

eyes

• Autumn 2010 we had visitors from Northampton School for Girls, UK

• During their visit, they should observe and make a presentation

• The following 9 slides are a description of our school and they express some of the thoughts, our visitors would bring back to Northampton

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Reflections• Responsibility • Trust • Community • Warmth • Nurture • Respect• Student engagement • Building self esteem, self belief• Emotionally healthy

Independent learning• Are we expecting staff to

do this but not giving them the space and opportunity to plan it?

• Meeting pattern and focus • How can we make

challenges interesting enough for a student to solve without a teacher?

• Use of the VLE - online learning

• Opportunity is there with our Music and Applied specialism and Applied Days

Community• SDP focus development of

the learning communities • Bringing the place together

and increasing the sense of belonging

• Relationships is the key • Practical ways to support

this - wall tiles relating to the identity of their school, photos from the top of the buildings staff photos, whole staff

• Opportunities for younger students to interact and be supported by older students (in addition to the 6th form)

Nurture• SDP focus – building

self esteem individualised care

• Cushions, bean bags , Headphones ,making use of corridors - making it ok to sit on the floor

• Creative space with seating areas

• Creating a cocoon place within the library

Trust• Choose your conflict• Language we use to

emphasize this more often

• Build this into teacher talk

• Feed into curriculum development

• Dialogue in mentoring

Action plan

• Sow the seed wherever we can • Choose people we know will be receptive• Listen to their reactions and thoughts• Have an opportunity to reflect together• Be less afraid • Take this ethos and way of working with

students and apply it to our way of working with staff

Bigger things

• Curriculum change • Extended learning aided by creative

timetabling• Applied days music specialism• Visit other schools • Development of online learning• Creative with space – comfortable places

to work with our vulnerable youngsters

Questions

• We already have human scale values at the heart of our ethos. How can we embed this further and deeper and wider and stronger ?

• How do we keep the balance? • “You can’t teach someone to be human on

paper “