Rolls-Royce

Entrant's address and contact details

School name:	Alvaston Junior School
School/college address:	Elvaston Lane Alvaston Derby Derbyshire DE24 0PU England

School phone number:	01332 571321
Number of pupils in school(s) - male:	180
Number of pupils in school(s) - female:	180
Number of staff in school(s):	32

Our team leader and our team

Name	Position (e.g. Headteacher, parent, etc.)	Organisation
Mrs Sandra Stott	Head of Science	Alvaston Junior
Mrs Sue Penglase	Head Teacher	Alvaston Junior
Mrs Hazel Howie	Teaching Assistant	Alvaston Junior
Mr Paul Mellor	School Governor	Alvaston Junior
Mr Adrian Howe	School Governor	Alvaston Junior
Mr Shane Yates	Gym Instructor	Horizons Gym

The key skills, strengths and roles of each team member are: (200 words)

Mrs Stott
Head of science and project leader. She will be responsible for managing the budget and overall plan. She is keen to develop the project so that children can engage in interactive practical learning within the school environment.

Mrs Penglase
Hadteacher and project sponsor. She is offering invaluable support in implementing the project. She is committed to putting our plans into action and linking in as many curriculum areas as possible including ICT.

Mr Mellor
A Business Development Manager at Rolls-Royce and Chair of Governors. Will support the team with business and project management skills, backed up with a broad understanding of our school's current educational and social needs.

Mrs Howie
An experienced teaching assistant and keen gardener. She already works with the children in maintaining the school grounds and will be in charge of designing and maintaining the environment around our project.

Mr Howe
The schoolâ€™s SEN link governor. He will ensure this project will expand the learning opportunities for this community.

Mr Fred
From the local gym. He is keen to get involved in order to help, advise and encourage teachers and children in how the project could be used for enjoyment, education and fitness.

Our proposal

Topic area of proposal: Processes and Living Things - Health

Briefly, the aim of our proposal is: (50 words)

To extend an existing very popular Trim Track and develop resource packs which will provide innovative ways of directly involving children in their learning experience through practical problem-solving and experimentation.

The project will enable pupils to carry out practical investigations in many areas of the curriculum, especially health and fitness, science and maths.

It will support our bid to achieve and maintain The Healthy School Award. Our school is recently out of Special Measures and we are eager to build on the enthusiasm of everyone in the school to improve all aspects of learning and achievement.

Pupil type to benefit: All

Age range to benefit from proposal: 3-11

Learning outcomes from our proposal: (50 words)

To help achieve many of the aims of the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda.
To help children to understand the benefits of exercise, which is important in today's climate of child obesity.
To raise achievement, relevance and enjoyment in all areas of the curriculum.

Our reasons for developing this particular proposal: (100 words)
There was initial consultation with the pupils. A competition was organised and the best idea chosen. The project will extend an existing resource which the children all enjoy. The staff and the Head were then consulted. We all believe that there are great benefits from having access to a learning tool outside the classroom which will be enjoyable but will also help maths, science, PE, modern foreign languages (MFL) and PSHE. The school has just come out of Special Measures and projects like this one will make the best use of equipment and help us deliver our School Development Plan.

Detailed description of our proposal: (300 words)

The project will involve purchasing a new piece of equipment to extend our Trim Track plus heart rate and blood pressure monitors. It will also involve setting up teaching packs of resources and activities that can be used on the apparatus.

The staff have been enthusiastic and have come up with many ideas as to how this resource can be used to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. We will use the resource to aid MFL by giving instructions in a foreign language. We will use the resource in PE for fitness, climbing, balancing, team work, problem solving and communication (outdoor and adventurous). We will use the resource in science to aid work on forces, materials and fitness. The pulse and blood pressure monitors can be linked to computers and this will feed into data handling in maths. We will also use the resource in maths for measurements of area, length, timing and shape and space. The resource can also be used in design technology for work on structures.

These are just a few ideas and with help from the local gym we will come up with even more. The benefits will help the whole school and stretch the gifted and talented, whilst providing new experiences within the SEN learning. It will raise enthusiasm and relevance for all curriculum areas, especially science, which will in turn raise standards not just in core subjects but also in all subjects and the end of KS2. It will develop cross-curricular links between all our subjects, which is part of our school development plan. It will build strong contacts between teachers, parents and external organisations. It will teach children life skills in accordance with ECM.

Putting our proposal into practice

Outline of how our team would implement our proposal over a period of not more than 24 weeks: (300 words, bulleted lists accepted)

Weeks 1-2

Inform the Local Authority of our plans.
Re-introduce the project to staff and children through a special assembly and award a prize for the winning suggestion.
Notify parents in newsletter.
Ask for teacher volunteers from each year group.
Contact Sovereign for quote and dates for fitting.
Order blood pressure and pulse monitors.
Begin diary of events and give out to all team members.
Allocate jobs to team members.

Weeks 3-4

Complete a risk assessment.
Contact Rolls-Royce to visit the school to see project site.
Start discussions with the local gym and talk about ideas as to how the resource could be used to improve fitness.

Weeks 5-14

Working party of teachers draw up details of activities linked to maths, PE, science, MFL, PSHE, etc relevant to each year group.
These could be folders, boxes, files, etc with resources and lesson plans.
Draw up a timetable for using the resource as part of classroom aided work.
Set SMART targets to evaluate the effectiveness of the resource.

Weeks 15-18

Installation of equipment.

Weeks 19-21

Contact media to invite them to the grand opening.

Contact parents.

Introduce a Healthy Schools week where all children get to use the apparatus to familiarise themselves with it.
School Council to be involved in use of equipment safely.

Weeks 22-23

Begin using the equipment and assess against SMART targets.
Add new equipment into the annual maintenance schedule to meet BS EN 1176-1 and local authority requirements.

Week 24

Final meeting of team.
Complete diary.
Evaluate progress and set new targets to be achieved.
Arrange progress meeting for future.

Monitoring and evaluation

The monitoring procedures we will use during the project are: (200 words, bulleted lists accepted)

Team leader to have a weekly meeting or discussion with individual team members to discuss the progress of their task that week.
Fortnightly meetings between all team members to feedback and review progress.
From week 3 inform staff, children and parents in staff meetings, assemblies, newsletters on a regular basis.
From week 7 ensure all costs of items are within budget and communicate to all stakeholders.
The working party of teachers will meet fortnightly to check development and progress of lesson plans. The teachers involved will take their relevant lesson plans to team meetings and they will be discussed and amended as appropriate. They will then be brought back to the working party.

The evaluation procedures we will use at the end of the 25 weeks to check the effectiveness of our project are: (200 words, bulleted lists accepted)

Childrenâ€™s questionnaire to ask for their views on how they are enjoying using the equipment as part of their lessons and whether this has helped their learning or not.
Staff questionnaire as to whether they think children are more motivated and are learning better. Staff evaluation of lesson plans and activities.
Improved standards in assessment tests related to work completed using the equipment leading to more children achieving level 5 in science and maths at the end of KS2.
More children involved in extra-curricular activities as they develop a love of exercise.
Achieving the Healthy School Award.
Assess whether the project is accepted as a valuable part of the school via open discussions.
Parentâ€™s questionnaire to establish their point of view of the impact the equipment is having on their childâ€™s progress.
Lesson monitoring of use of the equipment to check use and impact.
Check work for evidence of cross-curricular links.

Budget

Itemised costs of putting your proposal into practice within a maximum budget of £5,000 or equivalent in Euros: