Year 8 - Core Skills

• Understanding of the importance of qualifications and a good attitude to work for future careers.

Skills:

• Critical Curiosity
• Meaning Making
• Changing and Learning

Students receive a level at the end of the project: Outstanding, Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Needs more work.

• Understanding of enterprise and financial matters

• Learning Relationships
• Creativity
• Resilience

Enterprise Project Exhibition with written team report

Knowledge

• Understanding how to research effectively
• Understanding of News and Fake News
• Understanding of how to use iMovie

• Critical Curiosity
• Learning Relationships
• Meaning Making
• Strategic Awareness
• Changing & Learning

BBC School Report News Day Presentation

• Understanding of Thinking skills, e.g.
  • mindmapping and the benefits if using this as an aid for revision, tests and exams,
  • P4C enquiries using the 4C's (Collaborative, Caring, Creative and Critical Thinking)

• Critical Curiosity
• Learning Relationships
• Creativity

Thinking Skills Board Game

Students will work in small teams to create a board game that develops one of the 4C's. They will have the chance to play each other's games and take part in peer assessment