Entrant's address and contact details

School name:	Newstead Wood School
School/college address:	Avebury Road Orpington Kent BR6 9SA England
School phone number:	01689 853626
Lead school:	Newstead Wood School
Partner schools:	All London Borough of Bromley Secondary School. Actual schools to be confirmed.
Number of pupils in school(s) - male:	0
Number of pupils in school(s) - female:	980
Number of staff in school(s):	113

Our team leader and our team

Name	Position (e.g. Headteacher, parent, etc.)	Organisation
Mr Gordon Wright	Lead Pratitioner for Science	SSAT & Newstead Wood School
Mrs Christine Lloyd	Deputy Head	Newstead Wood School
Mr Nigel Fleet	Head of Art	Newstead Wood School
Mr John Pitrik	DT Teacher	Newstead Wood School
Mr Martyn Begbey	Engineering Industrial Link	R Durtnell & Sons Ltd
Mrs Caroline Le Page	Senior Laboratory Technician	Newstead Wood School

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

Christine Lloyd

Deputy Head Teacher, has expertise in leading teaching staff, students and other adults. She is committed to deep learning experience through a cross curricular approach. In the last 5 years she has developed Newstead Wood School’s highly successful model for a Summer School.

Gordon Wright

Team Leader, is a SSAT Lead Teacher for Science with 10 years' science teaching experience. He works closely with teachers within other networks and has expertise in facilitating the learning of science and engineering for G&T students. He is responsible for the school’s Science Community Development work.

Nigel Fleet

An innovative and creative Head of Art. He has a wide knowledge of different art forms and has been a team member on all our Summer School projects. He has inspired students to interpret themes using photography, clay, fine art, sculpture and painting.

John Pitrik

A skilled DT teacher with a keen interest in engineering projects. He has co-ordinated successful school teams to compete in Formula Schools and the Marine Challenge.

Martyn Begbey

A member of the Engineering management team at Newstead Wood School. He has many connections with local and national engineering firms and organisations.

Caroline Le Page

A highly skilled technician with the ability to co-ordinate many projects at once.

Our proposal

Topic area of proposal: Generic Issues - Cross-curricular

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

To deliver a Summer School for gifted and talented students based on a central theme of ‘Flight’. Our Summer School will provide opportunities for students in the local authority to work closely together, encourage cross-curricular learning, and pursue lines of enquiry arising from the central theme. We aim to provide an enriching experience of engineering. The core engineering attributes of thinking skills, team working, problem solving and creativity will be crucial elements with specialist lead workshops, educational visits and master classes. Our Summer School will be based on a model successfully developed by the school in the last five years.

Pupil type to benefit: Talented

Age range to benefit from proposal: 11-16

Learning outcomes from our proposal: (50 words)

• Provide an insight into the historical and future development of flight.
• Develop knowledge and understanding of the engineering principles of flight and relate these to nature.
• Develop research, problem-solving and presentation skills through independent work and team work.
• Facilitate creative responses to the central theme.

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

Its ongoing work as a Specialist School and Academy Trust (SSAT) Engineering School has enabled Newstead Wood School to make useful links with industry, universities and the local community. This proposal will allow increased access for other schools to aspects of engineering and encourage the take up of STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) courses. Newstead Wood School has a particular responsibility for sharing its expertise in encouraging girls to pursue courses in science and engineering. The school has consulted with local schools via their gifted and talented lead teachers, science teachers and other members of the schools’ leadership teams.

Detailed description of our proposal: (300 words)

• Our 2008 Summer School for gifted and talented students is based on an educational journey into the theme of Flight.
• Students will get an overview of the important historical milestones in flight and future developments including domestic space travel.
• They will have expert lead workshops including relating nature to flight and aeronautical model making.
• An appreciation of aeronautical engineering will be enhanced by visits to The School of Engineering at the University of Surrey and Biggin Hill Airport.
• The link with flight and nature will be further enhanced with a trip to High Elms Nature Centre and the visit of birds from Eagle Heights in Dartford.
• In the second part of the course, students will be able to follow their own lines of enquiry and make cross curricular creative responses to the key concepts of Flight. This will involve exploration of flight through dance, music, art, design technology and creative writing. Jenny Patemen our Artist in Residence will explore flight-through-space, by students making life drawings to capture a gymnast's activities. Techniques of rapid and repeat drawing will be shown with varied materials selected to plot and reveal movement from varous scales including large collaborative pieces. Basic print making techniques using linocut will be introduced from previous flight drawings and group collages and single merged prints will be produced. As an extension simple wire construction sculpture will be used to build a gymnastic figure.
• The course will conclude with student-led presentations and displays to showcase their learning experiences and celebrate their success. There will be an invited audience of families, friends of the school our engineering community partners and sponsors.

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)

Gordon Wright/Christine Lloyd with secretarial support from Janet Sturgess, PA to Christine Lloyd

Feb to April 2008

• Establish interest within the school and among other schools in the local authority (London Borough of Bromley) - this has already been done (Gordon Wright)
• Decide on the dates (NB an eight-day period late July/August has already been identified)
• Team planning meetings – all Newstead Wood staff team members
• Production of schemes of work for each unit
• Contact specialists (Gordon Wright/Christine Lloyd)
• Recruit sixth form mentors
• Undertake risk assessments
• Negotiate for use of specialist accommodation and facilities at Newstead Wood School

May to June 2008

• Prepare programme, letters and application forms
• Prepare student handbook and staff handbook, detailing the programme, aims, learning outcomes, methods of working, expectations and domestic arrangements
• Prepare contracts for staff team members and specialists
• Prepare all supporting resources
• Make arrangements for transport for field work

July 2008

• Final preparations including whole team meeting

August 2008

• Final accounts
• Evaluation of Summer School

Monitoring and evaluation

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

• Student Voice consultation group - previous participants in Newstead Summer School
• Checklist for delivery of the action plan
• Pre-summer school briefing meeting with course members to attain any special needs and to support induction of external students
• Pre-meeting for staff and sixth form mentors to check manageability of the various activities and the learning outcomes expected
• Debrief sessions with sixth form mentors during the Summer School to ensure student well-being and maintain learning outcomes
• Teaching staff & sixth form mentors attend morning briefing meeting during Summer School
• Uptake on creative workshops after first week via proforma sheets
• Student outcomes from individual projects/workshops
• Regular feedback to School Leadership Group during the planning, implementation and evaluation stages of the Summer School

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)

• Evaluation forms for teaching staff, students, sixth form mentors and key workshop leaders will inform our project success and future developments
• Feedback meeting with staff after the Summer School
• Monitoring of students as a long-term goal would be to check the uptake of STEM courses at GCSE, AS/A2/Diploma level and University courses
• Generation of material/portfolios/displays/performances for final presentation
• Feedback from local authority gifted and talented co-ordinators, lead teachers and teachers with responsibility for gifted and talented students
• The possibility of extending this Summer School to a second year, from the audit, strengths and weaknesses of the activities.

Budget

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

Budget Item	Cost (GBP)
Staff Costs - school workshop leaders & supervisors for full 8 days	2000
Visiting Speaker/ Expert Costs	600
Budget for in-house resouces including reprographics	500
Budget for bought in resources for specialist workshops	500
Approx costs for local visits including minibus hire	500
Technician and curriculum support staff time	500
Student information packs x 40	100
Sixth form mentor expenses	250
Refreshments for visitors & break snacks for students	50
TOTAL	5000