School Led Projects

CPRLS Staff Training Programme

Click here to download the Learning Space Training programme impact report.

What is it?
4 day training course, designed to support school staff (teachers, TAs, governors) to plan and deliver their own school programmes in the CPRLS. Participants need to be:

• Confident when using basic school software packages

• Willing to step out of their comfort zones, to take risks within a well supported environment.

 

What are the aims?
To enable participants to:

• Become aware of the wide range of resources available at the CPRLS

• Learn the basics of using the technology in the CPRLS

• Find out how to plan programmes that make the best use of current learning research, as well as the resources and technology available

• Build stronger links with the CPRLS staff team

• Plan challenging activities in the CPRLS for students and staff

 

Topics covered included:

• Getting to grips with the potential of the technology

• Using the Brain Wave plc Challenge framework

• Planning innovative, personalised learning experiences, including resourcing, delivering and evaluating

 

12 schools were originally involved with the training:

 

 

"All the staff were extremely helpful and supportive"
"Very Excellent.
Excellent." It gave a lot of opportunity for hands-on exploring and learning through making mistakes"

Following the training programme, the following schools have planned and delivered their own project in the CPRLS:

St. Day and Caharrack Community School

Viking Week 

Plasma screens created a feel for the life and time with images of Vikings, Viking houses and Viking ships. The 3 spaces were used for writing Viking Sagas and creating animations about their journey; Making costumes, helmets, shields and jewellery and most dramatically of all – to build a 3D Viking Settlement with an entire village set in realistic scenery, adjacent to a harbour sheltering longboats! The children were highly motivated and inspired to work extremely hard with amazing results.

Local Mining Week

Students used music and art to learn about Cornish mining.

Curnow School

Toys and Machines

Linking in with a current school topic, the day was based around the theme of transport. The activities included making models of different types of transport, including a ‘giant’ busand aeroplane. The students also turned the X-Change into their own transport network, with railway embankments, tunnels, tracks and roads!

Weeth Junior and Infant School

Yanomamo

 

Based on the CPRLS ‘Wild Space’ programme; every child in the school explored what life might be like for the Yanomamo tribe.

They made houses, clothing, canoes, and hunting equipment. They also used 2Create A Story to record a diary of a day in the life of a Yanomamo person and 2Simple Animation software to create animations about rainforest animals.

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