Entrant's address and contact details

School name:	Bridge Academy
School/college address:	Audrey Street London Greater London E2 8QH England
School phone number:	020 7729 4623
Number of pupils in school(s) - male:	104
Number of pupils in school(s) - female:	80
Number of staff in school(s):	16

Our team leader and our team

Name	Position (e.g. Headteacher, parent, etc.)	Organisation
Mrs Emma Upton-Swift	Science leader	The Bridge Academy
Mrs Tina Semmens	Assistant Principle (teaching and learning)	The Bridge Academy
Miss Sarah Phillips	Designed and Technology leader	The Bridge Academy
Miss Emily Kempthorne	Science teacher	The Bridge Academy
Mr Clifford Reece	Music leader	The Bridge Academy
Mr Jeremy Grigg	English AST	The Bridge Academy

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

Emma Upton-Swift
Will support pupils with the science content of the video and planning and storyboarding the video.

Tina Semmens
Will act as liaison with the SLT.

Sarah Phillips
Has extensive experience in set design and will be supporting pupils with the design of the set and the branding of the video.

Emily Kempthorne
Will support pupils with the practical aspects of the science video.

Clifford Reece
A multi-instrumentist who will support the pupils in the composition of the musical score that will accompany the video.

Jeremy Grigg
Has extensive experience of film-making and editing (formly head of media studies), will support pupils with the film production.

Our proposal

Topic area of proposal: Generic Issues - Procedural understanding

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

Pupils will produce a laboratory safety video to be used to support the teaching of identify hazards and controlling risk. The pupils will write the script and a musical score to accompany the video. They will also perform and edit the content.

Pupil type to benefit: Talented

Age range to benefit from proposal: 11-16

Learning outcomes from our proposal: (50 words)

• Develop pupils’ ability.
• Assess risk and work safely in the laboratory.
• Communicate information.
• Adapt their approach to practical work to control risk and readily identify hazards.
• Seek appropriate risk assessment information and advice, select that which is relevant.

Our reasons for developing this particular proposal: (100 words)

We have a strong commitment to year 7 students developing safe practice. We wish to develop:

• students practical skills
• ability to identify and control risk
• presentation skills
• planning
• communication skills.

We wish to build links with other subject areas, particularly the school’s music specialism.

In discussions with year 6 students it became evident that some of their apprehension about secondary school science was unfamiliar apparatus and the hazards that came with them. When looking for educational resources which showed safe practice we were unable to find any video resources. This is a resource which we will be using in the faculties science scheme of work.

Detailed description of our proposal: (300 words)

This is a cross-curicular project which focuses on a wide range of skills and develops them.

Pupils will be split in three groups based in three faculties: music, D&T and science talented pupils. They will work together to develop and film the project. Each group will be facilitated by a member of teaching staff, but led by pupils who will decide on their roles.

This project will run each year, with the previous year’s students acting as advisors to the incoming year 7s.

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)

Team meetings fortnightly (all members)

Week 1

• Special assembly. (EUS)
• Begin diary of the project. (EK)

Week 2

• Staff meetings with more able and talented to share the brief and decide on roles, split the pupils in groups.(EUS&EK)

Weeks 3-8

• Visit from Rolls-Royce team for advice. (all members)
• Research the safety requirements. (EUS&EK)
• Story board the performance. (JG)
• Music group research writing a score. (CR)
• Pupils order any additional resources. (EUS)
• Set design group use story board to design and build props. (SP)
• Staff INSET on using editing software and recording equipment. (EUS,JG,EK)

Week 9-11

• Pupils film performance. (JG&EK)

Week 11-17

• Pupils edit the performance. (JG)
• Music group record score to add to video. (CR)

Week 18-22

• Final editing and post preduction.

Week 23

• To be shown in school assembly and students celebrated. (TS)

Week 24

• Complete diary of the project. (EK)
• Contact local press. (TS)

Monitoring and evaluation

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

• EUS will lead the project and act as coordinator for the fortnightly meetings between the staff facilitating the other groups.
• Brainstorming with teaching staff at the beginning of weeks 3 to address particular areas of difficulties with specific pupils/topic areas.
• Expenditure will be audited regularly and will be monitored by EUS.
• Questionnaires will be distributed to students at the start and end of the project to track awareness of hazards when completing practical work.
• Feedback forms will be available when the resource is used (September 2008), to peer assess the functionality of the video resource.
• Pupils will fill in evaluation forms at the end of the project to inform the following year’s project.

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)

• Summative assessment of pupil progress in December 2005 and referenced against individual and collective student targets.
• Evidence of greater use of laboratory safety and hazard awareness when planning experiments.
• Student evaluation questionnaires to assess interest and motivation of the students.
• Peer assessment forms from the upcoming year 7.
• Staff evaluation questionnaires to assess manageability and sustainability of the project.
• Planning group meeting minutes review.

Budget

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

Budget Item	Cost (GBP)
Cover for teachers involved in project	1589
Tripods x3	100
Chemical consumables	100
Props	100
Adobe premiere pro CS3	688.98
Adobe After Effects CS3 (PC)	1038.99
TOTAL	3616.97