Key stage 2 | Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education (CUREE)

Did Pupils' Learning in Year 6 History and Geography increase as a result of a specific inservice training (INSET) intervention focused on Teaching Quality

Aim: An explanation of how pupils' learning in Year 6 history and geography was affected by an inservice training (INSET), an explanation of how pupils learning in Year 6 history and geography was affected by an inservice training (INSET) intervention focused on teaching quality.

Using mind-maps to raise standards in literacy, improve confidence and encourage positive attitudes towards learning

Aim: To improve childrens confidence and develop a can-do culture through the school, to develop a visual and kinaesthetic (VAK) approach to teaching and learning and to motivate pupils and teachers through a different approach to learning.

Getting pupils to take greater responsibility for their own learning during collaborative group tasks

Aim: To develop pupils group work and thinking skills so they participate more fully and take responsibility for their own learning during collaborative group tasks.

Opening Minds: A competency-based curriculum for the twenty first century

Aim: Improve transition for students from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3. Help to develop transferable skills and competencies such as literacy, numeracy and ICT in the Key Stage 3 curriculum. Embed Learning to Learn and Emotional Intelligence into the curriculum. Create engagement in independent learning through an innovative & engaging curriculum for students in the 21st century. Extend and challenge the most able and engage those with the potential to become disaffected in KS3, creating a resilience in learning that will become habitual and transferable. Embed ICT throughout the curriculu

Developing the Writing Skills of Pupils for whom English is an Additional Language

Aim: to identify how teachers can improve the narrative writing skills of Year 3 pupils for whom English is an additional language (EAL pupils).

Using email to assist reading

Aim: 1) To see if computer-mediated communication between boys at two different schools can enhance the reading ability and interest of Year 9 boys with low reading levels. 2) To make use of the opportunities for anonymity which email offers in order to allow teachers to assume multiple roles in the teaching of literature.

Children's perspectives on formative assessment: an action research approach

Aim: The overall aim of the project was to investigate childrens perspectives on formative assessment and how formative assessment can be developed to improve learning. I was particularly interested to know how childrens perspectives on learning and formative assessment changed between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3. I wanted to explore whether an action research approach could assist in the development of classroom practice in formative assessment.

Perspectives of one to one laptop access

Aim: The research sought to explore the childrens knowledge, views, understandings, interpretations and experiences of using laptop computers one-to-one and to gauge the effectiveness of the laptop use for the childrens learning.

Effective teaching to raise boys' literacy learning and achievement

Aim: The research aimed to find out whether and how oral, interactive approaches to literacy might engage underachieving Year Four and Year Five boys in school literacy learning within the context of whole class teaching.

History Mysteries: History, Literacy and ICT at Key Stages 1 and 2

Aim: The aim of this project was to investigate whether effective reading by children and enactment of the stories would improve and sustain childrens writing and their learning of history.This action research project involved a mixed ability Year 4 class of 28 children. The research was in two phases. In the second phase, the year 4 children worked with all the children in year 2. The class teacher, who was the history coordinator, was supported by a teaching assistant and other staff in the school. Parents joined in with some of the activities.