The Central Collegiate AcademyOur purpose

The benefits for us allThe future

“…a culture of aspiration in which all are valued, all can achieve and

diversity is celebrated”

Central Collegiate Academy Mission Statement

Comedy Writing project at St Alban’s – year 9 strike a pose

with their thought clouds!

Circle of Emotions - an EmotionalIntelligence project that developed

Calthorpe’s autistic students’ ability to express themselves

Our Purpose

• A reciprocal relationship – learning from and supporting each other

• Raising achievement through joint collaboration

• Valuing each others’ strengths

Transmissions playwriting project With the REP Theatre. Students from Calthorpe, Small Heath and

Moseley explore the many differentways of “writing”…

…and share some of their ideas through timetabled lessons by video-conference…

Transmissions playwriting project – the students spend a day at the REPworking with professional actors who

will perform their plays…

Collegiate Librarians organise learning opportunities

for groups of students across allCollegiate schools…

Where now, 2 and how? Collegiate Assessment for

Learning project

Project involved Moseley, Bordesley Green Girls,

Small Heath and St Alban’sSchools

Where now, 2 and how? Assessment for Learning

in practice

Where now, 2 and how? TEEP planning and TEEP

in action

The benefits for us all

• A wider perspective• Inclusive• Collective expertise – staff and students• A shared understanding• Opportunities for developing and sharing

good practice• CPD opportunities for us all

Floaters and Sinkers – fortheir coursework year 10 SaltleyGCSE Textiles students design

floatation aids for some of Calthorpe’s profoundly disabled

students to use in the pool

Forecast grades for courseworkrise to over 50% A* - C

Floaters and Sinkers – year 10students at Saltley test out the “Thinking Ducks”

Frying onions…a “smelly” TEEP hook to Start a lesson focusing on Assessment forLearning in Science at Bordesley Green

Girls’ School

Year 8 St Alban’s students prepare for the Literacy Breakdancing project

with Calthorpe and take part in a Disability Awareness session

Literacy Breakdancing…constructing sentences andshowing your best moves!

Over 70% of students involveddemonstrate a gain

in their learning in the baseline test at the end of the

project

E-Mission – Operation Montserrat! Year 9 students from Golden Hillock,

Yardleys and Small Heath video-conference with the National Space

Centre and evacuate the island ofMontserrat in the process!

Soccer Science! Year 9s from St Alban’sLearn about how the body works through

football – and coach younger studentsfrom Calthorpe with support from Calthorpe

and St Alban’s staff

EI Working Group – a central pointfor Emotional Intelligence across

the Collegiate

Peer and self-assessment in Science at Moseley using still

photography and video– year 10 learn

from each other’s mistakes!

Birmingham Airport Trails – schemes of work written by Calthorpe and

Collegiate staff to develop literacy,numeracy and Emotional

Intelligence

Trails to be shared with our wider community on the Birmingham Airport

Education website

The future• An evolving

Collegiate• A recognition of

success so far• The thematic, TEEP-

based approach• Building Schools for

the Future – working in partnership

Thematic approach

Assessment for Learning

New Technologies for Learning

Thinking for Learning Accelerated Learning

EI in Maths at Small Heath

Science Breakdancing! Students from Golden Hillock, Small Heath and Calthorpe learn about Biology

through dance

Expert tutors show them the moves…

Project work within English lessons at Yardleys…

year 10 show what they can do!

Trans-Active – a project withBordesley Green Girls and

Calthorpe focusing ontransition through developing

self-awareness and awareness ofothers

Colleagues from Moseley and Small Heath assisted in the planning and

delivery of the project – a truly Collegiateeffort!

Bordesley Green girls peer support Calthorpe students to

build up a passport aboutthemselves

Colleagues from all Collegiate schools working together and sharing good practice on the

Teaching and LearningNetworks Day – May 2006