Curious Minds

Pupil Voice and Technology to Engage Pupils and Families

Use of Pupil Voice in the creative curriculum by Bedford Primary School in Sefton:

Last year, Bedford Primary Change School, Sefton addressed writing, MFL (Spanish), technology and parent and pupil involvement in the new creative curriculum.  Working with Curious Minds Practitioners Emma Bramley (Drama), First Take (Film makers), All things Latin (Festival and Dance), Donna Berry (Visual Artist), and Creative Agent Gaynor McHugh, the impacts included:

• Improved Spanish language skills leading to children speaking only in Spanish during an assembly.  Year 4 captured evidence of this in the film they made with First Take, which documented the process of the 'All Things Latin' project including changes made to the curriculum as a result of learning. The project also played a huge part in the school receiving their ISA ( International Schools Award) reflecting the high quality of MFL  teaching.
• Year 4 developed new technological skills working with First Take, evidenced by their production of live mobile phone broadcasts and video podcasts of the project, uploaded onto the schools ‘Radiowaves’ website after each session.

• Parental involvement increased: parents viewed broadcasts and joined blogs on the school's web site.  Parents said: 'I am very pleased, it has been packed full of fun, very educating, and I think you will find it hard to top next year...We as parents also enjoyed the fun homework tasks etc, Noah's ark, castles, dinosaurs...'

• Pupils communicated to staff what motivates them and written evidence demonstrates pupil’s ability to reflect upon resulting changes to their curriculum and lessons.