During the course of Knowledge Transfer Partnership project, we have developed new ways of learning. The project has changed our views on what learning is and how you learn. It has gathered lots of interest; not just inside school, but around the country and internationally as well!
At the beginning of the year, we had some Dutch visitors come to the school to see the project. They were also interested in how we learn, here in Northumberland. Student Researchers (KTP student participants) took 2-3 groups of the visitors to; tour them around the school, be interviewed about our work in KTP and attend a meeting with the visitors and teachers. At the end of the day, the visitors left delighted with their knowledge of the project; and hoping to incorporate it into their own teaching methods. During the meeting, they were very intrigued to find that, students were asking the questions and refining them, instead of the traditional method of teachers asking the questions. They were fascinated at how we use cross curricular in English and other subjects. This was because we used ICT to help us with ongoing projects such as power point presentations and to help us plot a graph in maths and also to create a timeline in science about famous scientists.
Just last week a similar visit occurred. This time our visitors were Norwegian!
The Norwegian visitors where here to see how our school was ran. The main reason they came was to focus on ICT and and the KTP project. They wanted to see how differently we learned here in Northumberland, England.
During the course of their visit they had a tour around the school by 4 students from Bedlingtonshire community high school. They got to sit in the back of a number of lessons and observed the way that the lessons went.
Also, four year nine girls did a presentation to them explaining the KTP project and how it was functioning.
The visit was very successful and it was also a great way to ask things about schools in Norway and the difference between us and them .
Everyone involved enjoyed the day and thought it went great !