RiversideWhere Common sense

is Common practice

Are schools a preparation preparation for life

or an integral integral part of life?

Who is a child?child?

What is childhood?childhood?

And finallyfinally…….

How can children shape shape their future?

Why is Riverside Riverside

an idea worth sharing?

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Learning occurs when there is a shift from

“Teacher told me” to

“I am doing it”“I am doing it”

The Common Sense Model

Audio tour

© The Riverside School 13

The new 3 ‘The new 3 ‘RR’s’s

Student Teacher Parent

Community

The value value we put to the choices choices we make

Content choices

The Subversive Subversive CurriculumBuilding the Culture of a School

Glue Program

The Common Sense Model

Teaching as a CraftCraft

Adult LearningA

The Common Sense Model

Parent Partnership

Philosophy of Philosophy of TIMETIMEtablingtabling

Flexible / Intensive / Accountable

Student days – 200Team days – 253

Add to this….

15 years of a child’s life in school is spent telling them they

must care must care about all sorts of ideas….

Of course we tell them they must care about

quadratic equations, and photosynthesis,

and sentence structure and the height of Mt Everest.

But should we not alsonot also

teach them to care about

child abusechild abuseinequalityinequalityprejudiceprejudice

intoleranceintolerance

Not Either, Or

but Both, And

( Skills and Attitudes )

Be the change

So this is howCommon SenseCommon Sense

becomesCommon PracticeCommon Practice

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Really. Really. An idea worth sharing?