Un pique-nique de l’entrepreneur
Led by Gill Brunt and pupils

This workshop will enable delegates to watch a short video of the stages leading up to, and including, our pupils buying items for a picnic in France.  Beginning with a story in French about a picnic, pupils learn the vocabulary required, before embarking on a trip to the “shops” to buy their picnic food and drinks.  Euros are introduced and the most enterprising pupils decide what is good value and how best to provide a picnic for up to four people. As a reward for shopping, pupils are allowed to buy an ice-cream from the French ice-cream van, thereby using their French with genuine purpose.

So Many Words
Led by Jamie Patterson and So Many Words Theatre Company

In this workshop you will find out about how ‘So Many Words Theatre Company’ has developed from its infancy and humble beginnings as an after school club to becoming a fully fledged theatre company performing at the Lowry Theatre in Salford, and delivering drama workshops across the North West of England.  Many of our actors are pupils and ex pupils of Oakwood High School.  Over the years we have seen them grow from shy introverted children into mature, confident and enterprising young people.  Our young artists have been commissioned by primary schools to deliver PSHE and also MENCAP and the National Trust for disability awareness workshops.  Delegates will receive a DVD showing examples of the pupils’ work demonstrating the evolution of our projects, workshop resources and evaluation documentation

Accediting SEAL Aspects of Enterprise

Led by Lisa Southwood and Ian Moore

The workshop will be focusing on the SEAL agenda. Participants can expect to be informed about what SEAL is and how we have developed our SEAL strategy by using Black Box to promote the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning. Black Box is a theatre company who deliver SEAL activities which incorporate role play and drama activities into pupils learning.  

Delegates can also expect to see pupils involved with role play activities relating to empathy. Delegates will also be given the opportunity to participate in the workshop by creating their own feelings and emotions role play with the help of the Black Box Team

3D Science & Chocolate Rocks

Led by Amanda Stobart and Gary Sykes

 
The workshop will be focusing upon how to make difficult science concepts more accessible for children through the use of enterprising teaching. Participants can expect to experience practical activities that can bring to life the most difficult learning concepts.  

Delegates will be looking at how chocolate can be used to demonstrate to students how different kinds of rocks are formed, the use of a parachute to demonstrate particle movement during a change of state. Delegates will also be shown some of the bridge designs that children were able to produce during a topic on forces.

Developing an Enterprising TA Team
Led by Joanne Hamer, Jayne Gannon and Gary Sykes

Oakwood High School has a unique and dedicated team of 38 Teaching Assistants, each of whom possess very different and complimentary personalities, styles, characters and approaches to education.  This has resulted in the creation of a highly productive, enterprising, energetic and intrapreneurial team who collectively are the foundations and support for a highly enterprising school.  A culture of can-do, high expectations, reward, celebration, fulfilment, achievement, coaching and mentoring, and support and monitoring has enabled Oakwood High School to develop exceptional support systems to ensure every child matters, counts and achieves.  

The workshop will present our TA team and management structure, induction, training, support and mentoring programme and performance management, target setting, appraisal and monitoring systems for ensuring an effective, high performing and enterprising team.  

Delegates will leave with a ‘wow’ factor of the foundations of developing an enterprising and outstanding school comes from creating, nurturing and developing an outstanding and entrepreneurial support team.

Taking the Lead on Care and Protection

Led by Debbie Brooke, Rose Bingham and Angela Bowen

This workshop will provide an insight into how our disability team ensure the health, safety and personal care of specific pupils and staff within the school environment. Join us as we take you on a virtual tour of Oakwood’s excellent facilities, including the Hydrotherapy pool, accessible toilets, showers and specialised equipment.  Issues associated with First Aid will also be addressed and any queries will be answered, delegates will also receive an information pack to take away.

We hope this workshop will illustrate how the appropriate facilities and a positive team ethos can promote independence and a can-do attitude in all pupils.

Leading a High Performing & Enterprising Specialist School

Led by Michael Appleyard

Oakwood High School is recognised as a high performing and outstanding specialist school and has three specialisms, Arts, Technology and Sports.  Through providing an interactive workshop, the Deputy Head teacher will provide delegates with an insight into the vision for the school from gaining HPSS, and the many challenges that lie ahead for accelerating the enterprise agenda at Oakwood High School, the implications for and expectation of staff, and the aspirations for our pupils. The pathways which are beginning to open to the school, building on its initial experiences with our different communities and in exploring the potential of being a ‘Trust School’. Delegates will receive a copy of Oakwood High School vision and strategy for 2009-2010 and will have the opportunity to share their experiences.

Leading Diploma Learning
Led by Jay Cahill

Oakwood was involved in the development of the Creative and Media Diploma for 12 months before we began delivering the course.  This allowed us to be part of the writing team for the Level 1 specification with OCR.  We now deliver the Creative and Media Diploma to 18 pupils of a range of abilities.  This session will provide a basic outline of the Diploma course, look more specifically at how it has been delivered within a special needs context and how we have addressed the needs of all our learners and explored lines of progression.

Delegates will receive a copy of our Diploma Learning Strategy and Programme Materials.

Is Poetry Fashionable?

Led by Glynis Aldred, Jay Cahill and Mike Garry

The performance ‘Making Poetry Fashionable’ was a result of a group of Year 9 Salford boys being taken out of their comfort zone and exposed to youth cultures in their own society that they would not normally encounter.  As a cross-curricular project, pupils were involved in an innovative and exciting multi-media venture merging graphic art, poetry, music and fashion. This session will take you through how we planned the project, involved outside agencies and worked with pupils to produce an impressive performance.  We will show you how Enterprising Leaders and Enterprising Students are prepared to take a risk to raise self esteem and attainment.  We will look at how a group of year 9 boys became interested in poetry and fashion, had their poetry published and how we produced the show at the Lowry Theatre in the space of six months. Come along; talk to us; find out what staff and students gained from the experience and what they are planning next.  So, how do you make poetry fashionable? Delegates will receive the plan for this unit of work and pupil resources.

Capturing Enterprise Learning Outcomes

Led by Tom Marsden and Daniel O'Brien

As part of the 5 to 19 enterprise education strategy, the enterprise learning and achievements of every child and young person should be captured, assessed and tracked to enable them to show how they have developed their enterprise attitudes, behaviours, capabilities and skills throughout the education and in life. Oakwood School was invited by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust to take part in a national enterprise assessment pilot, as part of their national role in the Schools’ Enterprise Education Network (now the Enterprise Network). 

Accessing the hard to reach

Led by Emma Stringer and Stephanie Stapley

Delegates attending this workshop will have the opportunity to learn about the ‘Questers’ team and the many highly practical strategies, techniques, therapies and resources they use to access pupils with language and communication difficulties, so that every child can reach their full potential and achieve.  The presenters will discuss a range of quite specific problems including ‘sign language’ and therapies for supporting pupils with social skills difficulties such as pupils on the ASD spectrum.

Delegates will have the opportunity to see how computer software can be used effectively to create learning resources to aid ‘understanding’ and ‘expression’, and will be given a sample of those resources to use in their own school or setting.

Christmas out of the box

Led by Fran Gray, Oakwood Choir and the Cast of Angel Squadron

This interactive and highly stimulating workshop will immerse delegates into an inclusive and modern day production show of the ‘Nativity’ in an ‘out of the box’ way.  Bringing together a school population to celebrate the Christmas season, this production was the first time the whole school was brought together to produce, stage and perform the nativity in the 21^st Century.  Learn how the teachers and students worked together to bring to life a traditional biblical story through song, dance, acting, performing, and speaking (verbal and non-verbal). Understand the student and staff collaboration,  the risk-taking in terms of making the nativity contemporary, growth of self esteem, use of non-speaking pupils in a main role, signing songs, and inspiring creative thinking to ‘make it happen’.  15 children across the 11 to 16 age range will be participating in this workshop, and delegates will learn how to sign the chorus of a nativity song, taught by a year 10 student, alongside learning how to use ‘Boom Whackers’.  Delegates attending this workshop will receive a CD sample of Oakwood creative and media productions.

England V Australia – International Enterprise

Led by Jay Cahill, Stuart Fraser and Australian Business Week

Oakwood High School was invited to participate this year in an International Enterprise Challenge with students from mainstream secondary schools in England and Australia in a pilot trial of ABW Enterprise programmes.  A team of Year 10 students competed to take over the running of a consumer electronics retail enterprise in Australia, and learned how to trade in real-time, in Australian dollars, and using economic and financial variables set in the Australian economy and export markets.  The school was placed overall 3^rd in the UK and 5^th Internationally and succeeded against highly experienced schools in OZ, whilst also competing against teams in specialist business and enterprise schools in England. Hear how the students rose to the challenge, and very quickly found their enterprise and financial capabilities, whilst the supporting teachers were amazed and impressed with how quickly the students could access the learning materials, achieve and succeed. Delegates attending this workshop will receive a special discount offer for ABW programmes.

Factory Records in New York

Led by Michael Appleyard and Steven Heeley

This workshop will share with delegates the story of a project about Factory Records and the layers it has since produced. By chance the school had made contact with Bernard Sumner from the influential band ‘New Order’.  In 2007 New Order played a live performance in the school hall for the pupils, culminating last year in a pupil visit to New York.

The session will discuss the journey the school has experienced since meeting Bernard: making links with international artists and organisations, pupils visiting New York, frustrations of working with politicians, being brave in your ‘ideas’, organisational headaches and successes. Identifying resources and persuading people to do things for free. Creating the confidence to go onto greater challenges for yourself and aspirations for the pupils.  Delegates will learn firsthand how being enterprising leads to enterprise in itself.

Accrediting community enterprise with the Village People

Led by Steven Heeley and  Liz Capell

Accreditation of enterprise learning is a developing area of the national curriculum as part of the national enterprise education agenda.  Recognising that learners are enterprising and giving them the opportunity to demonstrate and further develop their enterprise attitudes, behaviours, capabilities and skills has proved a challenge for schools.  This workshop will share the learning journey the school has gone through to ensure every child has the opportunity to be accredited for their enterprise learning in the community, in personal life and through formal and informal education.  The presenters will share their experiences and successes of implementing the PEARL, COPE and ASDAN awards and how they have integrated awards across the curriculum so that learners can gain accreditation for their enterprise learning as part of lessons.   Delegates will have the opportunity to view examples of students’ portfolios and work, and will be able to take away some planning tools and cross curricular exemplars

Enterprise through the lens

Led by Kelly Stirling and Gail Fisher

Through Oakwood High School attendance at ‘Business for Breakfast’ meetings, the enterprise coordinator brokered a learning opportunity for the school’s photography group to work with a local photographer to create and develop a range of suitable and appealing images for the photographer’s new website.  In exchange the photographer visited the school to work with the GCSE Photography group and staff through providing a workshop on communication styles, personalities and traits for effective social and business networking. The way in which the pupils independently approached the task and made definite decisions demonstrated their clear understanding and application of enterprise.

During this learning episode we will be looking at the way in which local businesses can be of benefit to the curriculum in school and the overall experience of the learner.

Enterprise through Every Child Matters Agenda

Led by Sue Perkin

This interactive workshop will specifically focus on the Every Child Matters agenda, and how this has been embedded throughout all aspects of Oakwood High School; its learning, teaching, leadership, enrichment and support programmes, and how through taking an enterprising approach to ECM, children have been able to enjoy a full range of learning and enrichment opportunities which have further enhanced their enterprise attitudes, behaviours, capabilities and skills.  Delegates will have the opportunity to share their own strategies and to reflect on how they can ensure through enterprise that the ECM agenda is fully delivered.

Delegates will receive a copy of the Oakwood ECM Guidance, documenting our whole schools approach to embedding Every Child Matters.

Developing Enterprising Additional Support Services

Led by Margaret Harris, Ruth Benson and Patrick Sullivan

In this workshop delegates will learn about the extensive additional and extra support strategies and services for pupils at Oakwood High School, provided by professional services, intervention teams, youth services, counsellors, and many other professionals working in partnership with the school.  Margaret Harris, Learning Mentor, will present how the school has developed a co-ordinated and electronic services approach for ensuring every pupil’s individual learning needs and priorities are provider for.  She will share some specific communication strategies and materials which have been developed for with children with challenging behaviour and anger management in particular.

Delegates attending this workshop will receive a copy of the Behaviour for Learning Policy, also exemplar resources for effective learning.

Y7-8 Part time Inclusion (PIT) Programmes for Mainstream Schools

Led by Joanne Perkin

This workshop will focus on Leading Practice in Inclusion and making links with Mainstream schools through the experience of the Part-time Inclusion Placements. Delegates will be given information on what the programme is and how it is set up and managed along with the sharing of ideas and resources. (Subjects covered KS3 Yr 7 & 8 English, Maths, Science, History, Geography and RE Levels 1 to 4).

Delegates will go away with resources, ideas and information for use with SEN pupils back in the mainstream setting and also ideas as to how this programme could be set up in other Special Schools linking with mainstream as an aid to improving pupil progress.

Nobody sits at home (Post 16 Progression)

Led by Karen De Vine

This workshop will give delegates the opportunity to learn from the school’s Transition Advisor (post-16) the programmes, strategies, communications and resources used to ensure every young person at Oakwood progresses, achieves and is successful when the progress from Oakwood into further education, training or employment.  Based on a philosophy of ‘Nobody sits at home’, delegates will hear how  every student in Year 11 progresses at this critical transition stage, through raised expectations, aspirations and highly co-ordinated and planned partnership with further education colleges, training providers and employers across Salford.  Delegates will also learn about the monitoring and tracking systems developed and maintained to ensure this success, and will hear about some of the challenges ahead in support of the 11 to 19 education agenda.  Delegates can view some Transition documentation which they can use or adapt in their own school or setting.

Towards Independence through Enterprise

Led by Margaret Murden

During this workshop I am hoping to share with you how through learning to travel independently our students at Oakwood are able to take up full and active positions in society, the economy and in the workplace and how our inclusive approach to travel independence ensures every student is able to experience a full range of enterprise learning programmes in preparing them for their future economic wellbeing.

Delegates will receive a copy of the Independent Learning and Travel policy and will have the opportunity to reflect on their own policies and strategies for ensuring learner independence.

Developing PLTs through Enterprise

Led by Sarah Watts

Over the past few years the government alongside employers, schools and parents have been working on the PLTs (Personal, Learning and Thinking Targets).  These have been designed to help pupils become more aware of their own abilities and learning.  It is intended that these targets along with the functional skills will help pupils to become more prepared for the world of work.  The PLTs are split into 6 sections, each identifying key skills that pupils will need throughout their lives.  This workshop will provide you with an insight into how a very skill based and purposeful curriculum is easily achieved.

Delegates will receive a copy of the Oakwood PLTS framework and planning tools in addition to the national guidance for PLTS from QCA.

Embedding SEAL into Enterprise Learning

Led by Lisa Southwood and Sheila Mosley

This workshop will be focusing on SEAL and how it has been embedded across the whole school. Participants can expect to be informed about how SEAL has developed at Oakwood.

Delegates can expect to see examples of SEAL Planning and be informed of how planning has been adapted to meet the needs of the pupils at Oakwood.  There will also be examples of resources for delegates to take away which have been created to meet the needs of pupils with moderate learning difficulties.

Delegates will receive a full copy of the Oakwood SEAL Strategy, and also a selection of teaching exemplars highlighting how SEAL has been embedded through enterprise learning in a range of curriculum.

Capturing Enterprise Learning Outcomes for Employability

Led by Tom Marsden, Gerard Liston and Adrian Jones  

This presentation will explore how young people can demonstrate that they have enterprise and employability skills. Based on research funded by the DCSF, 'Bright Sparks' is now probably the most flexible and sophisticated assessment tool, using  PLTS, Key Skills, CBI employability skills, schools' bespoke rubrics or virtually any enterprise and employability framework.