| School name: | Sandfield Close Primary School |  |
| School/college address: | Sandfield Close
Rushey Mead Leicester Leicestershire LE4 7RE England | |
| School phone number: | 01162 660333 | |
| Number of pupils in school(s) - male: | 210 | |
| Number of pupils in school(s) - female: | 190 | |
| Number of staff in school(s): | 34 | |
| Name | Position (e.g. Headteacher, parent, etc.) | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Miss Sarah Eames | Teacher and Science/Environment Co-ordinator | Sandfield Close Primary School |
| Mrs Amanda Dhillon | Head teacher | Sandfield Close Primary School |
| Mrs Karen Barnes | Teacher and PE Co-ordinator | Sandfield Close Primary School |
| Mrs Maureen Tebbutt | Teacher Governor/Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator | Sandfield Close Primary School |
| Mrs Nicky Palak | Teaching Assistant | Sandfield Close Primary School |
The key skills, strengths and roles of each team member are: (200 words)
Miss Sarah Eames
An enthusiastic teacher and science coordinator, is keen to promote practical science using the children’s interest in PE and ICT skills. She will use this project as part of her CPD.
Mrs Amanda Dhillon
Head teacher, believes this project will enable children to enjoy and achieve. Children will have access to scientific learning in an enjoyable way and enhance their skills for life. The project will continue the commitment to our Healthy School’s award.
Mrs Maureen Tebbutt
A teacher and school governor will closely monitor the project and report the conclusions to the Governing Body. She is extremely knowledgeable on the Every Child Matters programme and is committed to promoting a healthy lifestyle for all children in school.
Mrs Nicky Palak
A very able Teaching Assistant and keen fitness enthusiast, will use her great organisational skills to ensure the project succeeds.
Mrs Karen Barnes
A teacher and highly motivated PE coordinator, will ensure PE equipment is handled safely, a guiding force in the school achieving its Activemark, due to children’s high levels of participation in sport and believes this project will encourage children to be active long term.
Topic area of proposal: Generic Issues - Cross-curricular
Briefly, the aim of our proposal is: (50 words)
Our proposal intends to create and develop a whole school database. Every child will be involved and a min-Olympics will make it a memorable event.
We aim to create a cross-curricular approach to science which will include:
• fair testing, taking measurements, interrogating data, enhancing the understanding of forces and health
• establish and improve links with history, the Ancient Greek Games
• the 2012 Olympic games
• PE/Athletics
• mathematics measurements
• ICT, creating the data base.
Children enjoy ICT and PE and getting the whole school will raise the profile of science.
Pupil type to benefit: All
Age range to benefit from proposal: 3-11
Learning outcomes from our proposal: (50 words)
• Information will be collected scientifically by children for a whole school database that can be interrogated.
• Children will take an interest in their own fitness and increase their understanding of their bodies and the forces involved.
• Children will enhance cross-curricular skills in literacy, numeracy, history, PSHE and ICT.
Our reasons for developing this particular proposal: (100 words)
• To create a whole school, cross-curricular approach to using science in a practical way.
• To increase the profile of practical science and enhance its links with other subjects.
• For children to work with each other across the year groups and collect data that can be used immediately, whilst also allowing for the option to collect data long term for the next four years.
• To create a memorable, worthwhile project that is enjoyable and useful.
• Proposal discussed with SETPOINT, also links with Leicester being European City of Sport 2008. Ideas developed from attendance at Leicester University European Pollen project.
Detailed description of our proposal: (300 words)
• We will develop cross-curricular links between the Ancient Greek Olympic Games and the 2012 Olympic Games - children will use science, ICT, mathematics and English skills.
• Gifted and talented children will be chosen to collect the data. Dressed in lab coats with clipboards they will measure and time appropriately dressed athletes, complete with competition bibs. Data will be collected, such as height, arm length, left or right handedness, age, sex and a variety of measurements for throwing, running, and jumping.
• This data will be input onto a school database - this could be repeated on a termly or annual basis and individuals could track their progress. Year 2 children will be in Year 6 by the time the 2012 Olympics arrive.
• Data can be analysed on an age appropriate basis, for example Year 1 could produce a bar chart of heights, whereas Year 6 could look for possible correlations in height and throwing distance.
• We will create an interest in the 2012 Olympics, and highlight differences from the Ancient Greek Olympics, whilst reinforcing the message of healthy eating and the importance of fitness, forces, diet and health issues.
• ICT and Numeracy skills can be used to produce charts and graphs and there is the opportunity for children to write experiments, newspaper reports etc based on the day’s events.
• Individual pedometers will mean that all sorts of data could be collected, either individually, as a group, class, year group, school, over a matter of minutes to weeks. Children will be able to collect and record their own data on an hourly/daily basis and compare it with their friends and teachers.
• If the proposal becomes a reality children will find a real purpose for collecting scientific data and analysing it and enjoying the long-term effects of regular exercise.
Outline of how our team would implement our proposal over a period of not more than 24 weeks: (300 words, bulleted lists accepted)
Week 1
• Team meeting to clarify roles, aims and objectives
• Research and consult with IT Technician
• Software needed for Database
Week 2
• Staff meeting to introduce the project, brainstorm ideas including health and safety issues, cross-curricular links, science of forces and ensure inclusion of all
• Order equipment needed, stopwatches, measuring tapes, height measurer, discuses, starting sounder, lab coats, bibs, clipboards
• School secretary to produce lists of children in classes
Week 3
• Project Day organised with a fall back date/indoor provision made in case of poor weather
Week 4
• Work with Gifted and Talented children who will be Scientists and collect the data
Week 5
• Collect data on Olympic Day/introduce pedometers/ photos/video
Week 6
• Input data, meetings with year group teachers to decide how to use data in short term with particular year groups.
• SE ensures progression of scientific enquiry and knowledge and understanding
Week 7
• Children make hypothesis, interrogate data and produce result charts and conclusions
• SE organises assembly
Week 8
• Whole school assembly by several Gifted and Talented from each year group
Week 9
• Questionnaires to staff, pupil interviews, evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of the project and arrangements for next data collection day
Week 10
• Portfolio completed
• Final team meeting
• Possible certificates to participants with their results
Week 11
• Staff Governor feeds back to Governing Body
The monitoring procedures we will use during the project are: (200 words, bulleted lists accepted)
• SE will co-ordinate the project with input from the team and year 5/6 gifted and talented children/school council
• NP to update team weekly on expenditure
• SE to update team weekly on organisation/acquisition of resources
• SE to collate ideas from initial staff meeting brainstorming session
• Portfolio created that will monitor the project and evaluate it
• Evaluations through staff questionnaire and pupil interviews and whole school assembly with invited guests
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)
• scrutiny of portfolio
• through discussions evaluate children’s understanding of a fair test, forces, healthy bodies, improved performance
• evaluate children’s result charts produced when they interrogate the database
• evaluate children’s conclusions based on their results data
• discussions with staff and questionnaires given to staff
• discussion and pupil interviews
• evaluate children’s interest in own performances e.g. striving to enhance own performance, throw further, run quicker
• children increasingly interested in what happens to their bodies during exercise
• children understand that their results will alter as they get older
• through observation/photographs/video on data collection day/s
• identify strengths and weaknesses of the project, make necessary alterations and discuss frequency of repetition
Itemised costs of putting your proposal into practice within a maximum budget of £5,000 or equivalent in Euros:
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