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News BOURNEMOUTH & POOLE COLLEGE FOOD WORKSHOP In <strong>Dec</strong>ember, six Year 10 students from Poole High took part in the Jack Petchey’s ‘Speak Out’ Challenge. The aim was to provide speaking and communications skills, enabling young people to speak with clarity, conviction and impact. Such important skills unlock an individual’s potential with benefits spreading from school and home and further afield to work, the economy and society. SPEAK OUT CHALLENGE All six students spoke passionately on different levels and the judges had a tough job but, after much deliberation, the two places went to Grace and Holly who go through to the Dorset finals. Fifty eight students have taken part in Year 10 ‘Peer to Peer’ Academic Counselling Workshops every Friday since the start of the academic year. ‘Inspired students’ with an average AtL score of 3.5+ have been working with ‘Academic Partners’ to raise attainment and attitude in their studies across the school. Recent track point data has shown a considerable increase in many of the students AtL scores.
DORSET CHAMBER Poole High has become a member of the Young Chamber, sponsored by marketing agency, Intergage Ltd. The membership will further enhance the school’s careers and enterprise strategy, giving the best careers advice and support available. EMPLOYABILITY PROGRAMME News As you are aware, we are constantly striving to enable all our students to have the best possible learning experience in the classroom. Consequently, our improvements in teaching and learning are informed by the best practice as indicated by research in schools and universities. These practices include: working with Professor Chris Brown at Portsmouth University, refining strategies to improve students’ independent study; refining how to challenge the most able students to enable even more students to achieve grade 9’s; refining the strategies to enable students with disadvantaged backgrounds to excel and overcome any barriers to their success. Example sessions with staff have included examining Cognitive Load Theory, reviewing our strategies to embed retrieval practice and ‘scaffolding from the top’. We are delighted that our teachers are not only actively engaged with the latest research relating to teaching and learning, but proactive in collaborating and sharing the best ways of implementing these approaches.
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