Subject Leaders' Meeting at Sale West

Spent the day at Sale West Development Centre.

The first part of the day was spent delivering the Functional Skills Modules 3 & 4.

As the news filtered through of yet another Cabinet resignation, I couldn't help but see a parallel between Gordon Brown and the Functional Skills. Now that the GCSE/FS link has been broken, FS (like Mr, Brown) seemed to have lost its authority and respect.



This was followed by a presentation from Chris Sykes (left), who works for Oxford Publishing. Sorry about the rather dark picture, Chris. She introduced several new resources, including their new OxBox series. There was a lot of interest in this. Lots of contemporary resources to use and the facility to upload your own to add to those provided on the CD.







The main part of the day was spent working through the Subject Leader Development Materials. These mainly focused on AfL, concentrating on how teachers can enable the pupils to take ownership of their own learning. Lots of useful resources to draw on. As usual, more to be done than any Subject Leader can be expected to do. We discussed the need to identify priorities and use the resources to improve the areas that would have most impact on raising pupil achievement.

Thanks to everybody for positive feedback. Your good humour and patience made my job a lot easier.