Entrant's address and contact details

School name:	Homefields Primary School
School/college address:	Parkway Derby Derbyshire DE73 1NY England
School phone number:	01332 691351
Number of pupils in school(s) - male:	110
Number of pupils in school(s) - female:	105
Number of staff in school(s):	9

Our team leader and our team

Name	Position (e.g. Headteacher, parent, etc.)	Organisation
Mrs Jacky Smith	Science co-ordinator	Homefields Primary School
Mrs Julie King	Headteacher	Homefields Primary School
Mrs Debbie Rollerson	Gifted and Talented, Geography co-ordinator	Homefields Primary School
Mrs Jayne Thornton	Literacy co-ordinator	Homefields Primary School

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

Jacky Smith
Science co-ordinator and has been responsible for developing science over the last five years. She is keen to see standards continue to rise and is very committed to children learning through hands-on activities, developing excellence and enjoyment and adding a wow factor to science.

Debbie Rollerson
Keen to improve resources and opportunities for gifted and talented and is very enthusiastic about the developing her work through science.

Jayne Thornton
Interested in developing cross-curricular opportunities for literacy and has a particular interset in developing boy friendly learning.

Julie King
The head teacher and is keen to to support the above members of staff in the above developments.

Our proposal

Topic area of proposal: Generic Issues - Teaching and learning

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

As a relatively new school, we now want to develop creativity, excellence and enjoyment, gifted & talented and boy-friendly areas of learning.

We intend to do this by developing WOW boxes for different science topics. These would include activities that enrich our science teaching and encourage further investigation.We would also like to develop our reading material by purchasing high quality reference material suitable for different age groups and sets of guided reading material that relate to our science topics.

Pupil type to benefit: All

Age range to benefit from proposal: 3-11

Learning outcomes from our proposal: (50 words)

To stimulate and sustain a passion for science that will continue to result in high standards in science and also impact on standards in other curriculum areas.

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

As a relatively new school we have focussed on building up essential resources and schemes of work. Now we would like to focus on improving opportunities for gifted and talented, creativity, boy-friendly approaches, excellence and enjoyment and cross-curricular links.

Detailed description of our proposal: (300 words)

We intend to develop WOW boxes for each area of science: materials, forces and life and living processes. We would develop boxes for each Key Stage (two at Key Stage 2), including foundation. These would include activities and resources designed to develop higher order thinking skills and promote independent learning outside the confines of what is expected in National Currriculum Science, for example electromagnets in a forces box. The contents of these boxes would aim to excite and bring a sense of awe and wonder to our science teaching. Each activity would have any neccessary instructions together with key questions to promote learning. They would be accessible to all children in a class when they are studying a particular area.

Alongside this, we aim to raise standards in both literacy and science by providing an appropriate match of non-fiction books to develop children's reading/research skills. These would be used in guided reading sessions to make non-fiction reading have greater relevance and would be available for individual reading and research when a particular topic is being studied.

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)

Term 1

Weeks 1-7

• Hold team meeting and discuss responsibilities.
• Inform all staff and add to school improvement plan.
• Begin diary of project.
• Tell children in assembly.
• Carry out staff/children and parent survey to ascertain attitudes to science before embarking on project.
• Jayne Thornton and Jacky Smith to look at and order appropriate non-fiction science books.
• Debbie Rollerson and Jacky Smith to look at and purchase material for Wow boxes.

Weeks 8-14

• Jacky Smith and Debbie Rollerson to introduce Wow boxes at staff meeting. Boxes to be put together.
• Jayne Thornton and Jacky Smith to intoduce non-fiction material at staff meeting.
• Jacky Smith to design an evaluation form for each topic to be filled in as a class at the end of using each box and set of reading material.
• Term 2

Weeks 1-12

• Wow boxes and non-fiction material to be introduced into classrooms. Staff and children to evaluate at the end of topic.
• Continue and complete diary.
• Write a letter to parents to tell them of the project.
• Inform local press.

Monitoring and evaluation

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

• Half termly meetings to review progress and to discuss next steps.
• Informal discussions with pupils and teachers.
• Observation of children using Wow boxes and reading materials.
• Formal discussions with staff at staff meetings.

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)

• Analysis of pupil questionaires.
• Identification from each teacher of the impact non-fiction material and WOW boxes on pupils’ interests, enjoyment and motivation.

Budget

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

Budget Item	Cost (GBP)
Non-fiction reading material	600
Storage for WOW materials	150
Materials for WOW boxes	550
TOTAL	1300