Use of drama and story telling techniques to improve writing at KS2, with an emphasis on boys' achievement

Aim: To investigate strategies for helping KS2 pupils, particularly boys, to overcome barriers to writing. In particular to explore whether: Using drama and storytelling techniques can enable pupils to bridge the gap between what is spoken and what is written; A range of oral communications skills including persuasion, description and narrative can be transferred to the written form through shared and tiered writing sessions; and The existing influence of T.V. and video viewing can promote the transfer visual images into the pupils writing.

Learning-centred leadership project: A study of middle leadership in 21 secondary schools

Aim: The main aims of the project were: To investigate the nature of effective learning-centred leadership and its contribution to the creation of teaching and learning schools; To analyse and describe the practice of learning-centred leadership and its influence upon aspects of the professional practice of others; To explore school leaders understandings of instructional and interpersonal learning-centred leadership; To examine the processes involved in creating learning and teaching schools in which such leadership can be developed, supported and sustained; To investigate and learn from the

What are leaders, teachers and students learning from collaborative approaches to personalisation?

Aim: This research project set out to explore a collaborative learning journey towards what may now be recognised as the partnership-based component of personalisation. Specifically it explored the following key questions in relation to the development of partnership-based approaches to the delivery of personalised learning: What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the leaders' leadership? What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the teachers' teaching? What has been the impact of the experience of partnership on the students' learning?