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Parents as Partners Evening

‘The Calder Edge’ Tuesday 10th December 2019

Question: What is the PixLEdge? Answer: A national programme for young people, allowing them to develop life skills and essential personal attributes.

Reality TV - what personal skills does it take to be a winner?

Who is involved in the PiXL Edge?

• Over one million school/college based

students aged between 8 – 18 years old

• Young people in schools all over England and

Wales

• Young people in every kind of school –

comprehensive, grammar, private, boarding etc…

What is PixLEdge?

• An opportunity to make students attractive to

further education providers (FE colleges/unis) and future employers

• The opportunity to sharpen your school’s

Personal Development programme and give it the EDGE!

What is PixLEdge?

• An opportunity for students to develop important

skills/attributes for life: Leadership Organisation Resilience Initiative Communication

Get your LORIC skills right and ‘You’re Hired’!

What will ‘The Calder Edge’ look like for students?

• Students in Years 7 attend a’ launch assembly’ in January.
• Each of the 5 LORIC attributes are introduced through assemblies or tutor time

every half term – this will start in the first week back in January with ‘Communication’

• Students will have one tutorial period covering course content every

Wednesday – (Edge Reg)

• To gain an ‘Apprentice Award’ students need to complete successfully two

‘personal challenges’ for each LORIC attribute (10 in total)

• Learning4Life days will have a CalderEDGE focus for Year 7 students both in

terms of task completion and recording of evidence in your log book

• A ‘Certification and Celebration’ event will be held for those who attain their

Apprenticeship in December 2020. We hope at least 95% of students get this!!!

Year 7 Programme

Monday SMSC/news Tuesday WOW word Wednesday Edge Reg Thursday Silent Reading Friday Assembly

Personal Challenges: The 5 must do’s

Leadership – Take responsibility for the teaching of an element

• f a lesson in any subject.

Organisation – Assemble a presentation on a topic of your choice and present it in a subject lesson or tutor period. Resilience – Achieve an attendance of 95% or above so far this academic year. Initiative – Create a poster publicising the work of a chosen charity or charitable initiative. Communication – Write to your old primary school telling Year 6 what life is like at secondary school.

Write … … a series of articles for the school magazine or website Write … … & deliver a speech as part of an organised class debate Speak … … about an issue that is important to you & present your views to a tutor group Act … … as a guide on Open Evening, directing people & answering questions Present … … a demonstration on a practical skill in a subject lesson Perform … … a self-composed dialogue with a partner in a taught language to your class Prepare … … prepare a poster/flyer that can be used to promote the end of year Art exhibition Prepare … … a set of resources (podcasts, blogs, videos, revision guides) on a subject topic in Geography to share with peers to aid revision Recite .. … recite a poem that challenges you, perform it to a small audience including an English teacher or librarian

LORIC – Communication

(PC2 = your choice - examples from the booklet)

8KCH and friends helping to restore the eco garden to former glories!

Year 8 Presentation Awards Evening December 2020

The Vision for Education Calder Edge

Year 8 Calder Champions

8 JPN - Sam Bradshaw 8 AHN - Maisy Short 8 RPR - Annie Lavender 8 KSR - Katie Kemp-Riley 8 KCH - Isla Lee-Grant 8 JKN - Ellacie-Kay Hemmings 8 RWW - Jasmine Rawnsley