Natural detoxification, improved digestion, keeping you regular. These are the main benefits of eating broccoli. Nothing to do with actually liking it. Perhaps they've never properly tried it, gulping it down and moving onto the roast potatoes as quickly as possible, failing to appreciate its versatility, vibrancy and taste. Children and adults around the world …
Continue reading Broccoli – by Jenny Toerien and Joe Sanders
Oakham School enjoyed the first ever Oakham Festival of Learning on Tuesday 4th June. A series of events ran throughout the day with workshops for pupils and staff alike hosted by members of the staff Teaching and Learning team and other colleagues. Pupils were invited to participate in a creative writing ‘microstories’ workshop over breakfast, …
Creating a reading culture at Oakham School Written by Bernadette O'Hanlon (Operations and Reader Development Librarian) It has long been acknowledged that reading for pleasure is linked to improving a child’s vocabulary. This knowledge alone should be sufficient in championing dedicated time for reading, for a limited vocabulary can be a barrier to understanding and …
Continue reading Reading for pleasure : making time, making a difference
Many students in Oakham's Upper School have partaken in the study of a MOOC this academic year. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow individuals to learn through video tutorials, activities and discussions. Participants are not constrained by time or physical location, and these courses are available to anyone, usually for free, regardless of their software set-up, …
While many of us in the school teach more than one subject (particularly within the Social Sciences, Modern Foreign Languages and Junior Science) we certainly all have more than one A level, pool of knowledge, area of interest or even degree subject. There are times when being confined to a particular subject area can be …
Continue reading Borrowing and loaning expertise: why straitjacket ourselves to a single subject?
Today's TeachMeet brings a discussion on the principles behind metacognition, its role within the learning process and how we might go about developing it through our teaching. Julie and I will present some ideas, examples and classroom strategies. These are set out in the attached PowerPoint - which also contains some recommended reading at the …
Thanks to Jenny Toerien for delivering a brilliant twilight TeachMeet on inquiry learning and the use of Oakham School's FOSIL model to support its implementation in the curriculum. Based on the research of Carol Kuhlthau and other preeminent thinkers in this area, plus evidence from the New York State Education Department, Oakham's Framework of Skills …
