Finally, I've found time to blog again! What with OFSTED last week the first few weeks back this term have been hectic! I had planned to have a go at some film animation using the digiblues in Literacy which I haven't taught before and the pupils have never done before either. That was before I knew OFSTED were arriving! So I decided to be brave and continue with my plans. The Lead Inspector and my Head came to watch the lesson. I was really pleased with how it went. All the children were on task and we have all learnt a lot these past couple of weeks. It's great learning with the children and to see their enthusiasm when it works and they are proud of what they've achieved. However it did help borrowing some digiblues from another school so each group could have one. So definitely another thing to purchase are some more digiblues.
We are actually going to spend longer on it than I planned because the pupils want to finish their films and get them to a good standard. I had showed them one of the films on the embc website as inspiration and a film from the British Film Institute. We are going to show our final films in achievement assembly this Friday. Got to borrow a projector from Springwell because all of ours are attached to the ceiling! Note to self: get another projector!
Also spoke to another inspector about ICT. She wanted to know how I monitored the subject, what programs we had in place for special needs children, if pupils had targets and knew which levels they were working at. She asked about staff competence!!!! I said 'variable!' She suggested pupils having an ICTbook in which they write down points to remember about certainpieces of software, particular keys to press/shortcuts etc and she suggested displaying ICT levels in the suite so children can see where they are and it might encourage and familiarise staff with the levels as well. So taking her ideas and going to put into practice.
Did feel that althoug I'd done a lot everything she asked I had to just say 'Its on my development plan, butI haven't reached it yet', which was a bit disheartening.
But I've learnt a lot using the digiblues and am now going to try and get all staff using them.
2 comments:
Don't be disheartened. You were brave enough to take a risk - I bet your kids had more fun learning about filming than worrying about what level they were on. In my experience - and the experience of my colleagues - you always end up allocating more time for filming than expected. I have two spare projectors if you want to borrow one.
Thanks for sharing that FG, it's interesting to know the questions that inspectors ask - at least you got one that was interested! An excellent 'straight bat' response of 'it's on the plan' - well done (and completely true too). You have to be proud of what you've done so far, in the time allowed (which is why I knew you'd be good at the conference!), but there's always more to do!
Nice to see a bit of risk taking too, a fairy after my own heart - I'm sure that didn't go unnoticed by the inspectors who see 'safe' far too often.
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