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This week Science leaders from St Gabriel’s College. Archibishop Sumner Primary, Evelyn Grace Academy, St John Divine Primary, Jessop Primary and St Saviour’s Primary met to share samples of children’s work, discuss Science teaching and learning in their schools and plan working together. The enthusiastic group of teachers had valuable exchange of how science is taught in primary compared to secondary. They discussed the value of children being familiar with ways of reading data eg through graphs when they get to secondary. Next term the group plan to set up some sessions where year 5 children can visit and participate in Science lessons in secondary schools, and we hope to run a Science Fair in the Spring.

IT co-ordinators from Archbishop Sumner, Jessop and St Saviour’s met last night for a session facilitated by London CLC, to look at ways of assessing children’s progress in the new Computing curriculum and different ways of gathering evidence. This will be the first of 3 meetings supported by CLC. The group discussed the challenge of setting assessment targets in this ever changing and progressing subject area. CLC introduced the group to Creative Commons, a way for teachers and pupils to share their work publicly for free whilst having it acknowledged. They also looked at the lgfl tools available to support class blogging and ways in which blogging can be used as a child’s e-portfolio, to give a purpose for blogging. We look forward to the next meeting when teachers will look at the Computer Science aspect of the curriculum for all groups in more depth and work together on assessment.