Wednesday, 17 February 2016

GO Group Minutes

  • Date and time: Monday 15th February 14:30
  • Location: B44
  • Attendees: NGR, ASH, FDO, TKY, JMC, ANA, SCA, PLI
Objective: To review the CPD meeting on 8th February.

Agenda Items

1. Review previous minutes
Focus on development of transition from primary to secondary - after EDT visit

2. Review CPD activities from the CPD meeting.

FDO - All agreed there was a good level of staff engagement through the use of active strategies - repeat in future sessions.
FDO - Setup Google Group for Traill Staff for sharing of good practice.
NGR - explored setting up Traill Teachers Google Group, may require additional information to be delivered in advance to staff. Could be included as part of a future CPD Session to introduce the group and the purpose so all staff are made aware of how it would be implemented and used to collaborate and share good practice.

ASH - Discussion of JAWS meeting, Tarsia discussed briefly and TKY has implemented some ideas already in lessons.

3. Discuss ideas for future meetings and ways of sharing good practice.
CPD Meeting 28th March - Focus Questioning
NGR - Google Doc setup and shared for collating ideas
Link to Blooms
Potentially link to question of the week through tutors - more information required. Discuss at next meeting.
FDO - use of literacy mats

4. Identify points of development as part of the School Review Document for the upcoming EDT (CfBT) visit.
Three potential areas for development identified -

  • Effective setting of Targets in KS4
  • Continue to stress diagnostic marking in all subjects
  • Further development of cross-curricular links
NGR to arrange meeting with BST about progression and strategies for achieving progression in these areas. Discuss outcomes of meeting at next GO Group meeting.
FDO - Thai International Science Week is coming up - potential for cross-curricular links.

5. T&L weekly suggestion and volunteers for coming weeks.
PKU - 18th Feb - embedding video into PowerPoint
FDO - 26th Feb - collate information from differentiation CPD session and send to all staff.
NGR - 4th Mar - AFL - an overview of AFL to ensure all staff have a better understanding of it.

6. AOB
Consider ideas for INSET in August:
  • SCA - potentially to lead a session introducing new teachers to the British Curriculum and language it contains based on her own experiences of adapting to it.
  • JMC & FDO - Focused session on SEN at Traill and the provisions in place so new staff are aware.
JMC - Use of LEGO therapy in the classroom. Leading a primary session at Tuesday meeting.  Binumi as a homework and assessment tool
FDO - Use of storyboards to review learning. GWE passed on a website storyboardthat.com which could be incorporated into homework or if students have access to ICT.

Proposed next meeting:
29th February
14:30
B44

No comments:

Post a Comment