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= ﻿ 5/6 Personalised Learning =



__**What is personalised learning? **__ Personalised learning is defined as “a system in which every child matters; careful attention is paid to their individual learning styles, motivations and needs; there is rigorous use of pupil target setting linked to high quality formative assessment and marking; lessons are well paced and enjoyable; and pupils are supported by partnerships with others beyond the classroom” (David Millibrand, Minister of State for School Standards UK).

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES, UK), broke personalised learning into five components; *assessment for learning *effective teaching and learning *curriculum entitlement and choice *school organisation and beyond the classroom. The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development published a document in which personalised learning has four common themes; *learners as central *information and communications technology (ICT) *lifelong learning *communities of collaboration.

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There a number of reasons why we are trialing personalised learning in 5/6. The first being the fact that we have moved into our new building which is set out perfectly for the two grades to set up learning centers around the room, ensuring there are teaching areas, quiet work stations, ICT and publishing areas and collaborative work spaces. We also intend to stretch our grade 5/6 students by challenging them to think more for themselves and begin to take ownership of their learning. Each student will be working at their own current level and we anticipate our students will be able to articulate what they currently know in reading, writing and maths, what they are working on learning and what they will be learning next in order to gain more knowledge or skills. Through this, we are hoping students will further improve their learning as every lesson will build on their current level of knowledge or skills.
 * __Why are the grade 5/6 students trialing personalised learning? __**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">As a part of our School Strategic Plan at Richmond Primary School, we aim to increase 'student voice' across the school. We see personalised learning as a great way to enable students to have input into their own learning as they are able to plan their weekly timetables, manage their goals and engage in units of work that they have created collaboratively with others. We provide the students with choice as we allow them to decide when they will work on what subjects/tasks throughout the week. Hopefully by providing students with choice and voice in their learning and enabling them to work individually and collaboratively with others, we will increase student morale, student distress, school connectedness, student motivation and the feeling of connectedness with their peers.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">How are the teachers implementing personalised learning with the grade 5/6 students? **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">We began implementing aspects of personalised learning at the beginning of this term (term 4) and so far we have made the following changes to the way in which we work in 5/6; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*students are planning their own weekly timetables, deciding when they will work on which subject/tasks. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*students have been given their results from recent tests in reading and maths and have marked their own writing, against a set criteria, and have <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">made use of the results to create graphs. From these graphs, students have been able to visually interpret what they are good at and where they <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">need to improve in each area. Choosing one or two of the areas they need to improve on, students wrote learning goals for writing, reading and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">maths. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*teachers have created 'clinics' around student's learning goals. These clinics are posted on the teachers timetable and students are required to <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">identify the clinics they need to attend in order to achieve their goals and they factor these clinics into their own timetable. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*each student meets once a week with one of the teachers and discusses their progress with each learning goal. In order to achieve a learning goal, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">students need to bring their evidence (which is displayed around our classroom and include videos, PowerPoints, posters, graphic organisers etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">to the conference and together a decision is made as to whether the learning goal has been achieved. Once student's have achieved learning <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">goals, new learning goals are set for them to work on. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">*students have been involved in planning their own projects and integrated unit work. They have identified learning outcomes they will achieve <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">through completing their planned project or unit of work.

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Please feel free to browse the wiki, enjoy viewing student goals and feedback as well as their learning discussions. Click on student work to view their evidence of achieving specific learning goals.

This wiki is a working progress, so teachers and students are editing their pages on a daily basis.

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