About the project
During this project Thinking Space worked intensively with a group of disengaged year 10 students. The project asked: ‘What’s the point of school?’ ‘What is good learning?’ and ‘How do we make it happen?’ To get a grip on these questions, the students were given a range of exciting and unexpected enquiry-based learning experiences including shelter building, music making, studio photography, improvisation, theatre making and forensic investigation.
Every moment was documented by a film maker and the resulting footage was used for an intensive week of philosophical reflection with Amber, returning again to the questions that had prompted the enquiry.
The student’s challenge was to articulate their vision of good learning by designing and delivering a learning experience for year seven; a daunting prospect for some of them but a real achievement for those who managed it and an experience they’re unlikely to forget.
Find out more about
- Forensic investigation with Sci High – http://www.scihigh.co.uk/
- Forest schools with Growing Wild – http://www.growing-wild.net/about-us.html
- Music Workshops with Equal Voices – http://www.equalvoices.co.uk/index.html
- Photography workshops with Jonathan Turner – http://www.jonathan-turner.com/
- Dramatic enquiry with Cap-A-Pie Associates – http://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/
- Improvisation with Mark Labrow – http://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/?pid=14
- Filming and photography with David – http://www.photosbydavid.co.uk/
