Honywood Learning Podcast

Abbi McPhail and Kerrie Brinkley deliver a workshop that focuses on school curriculum. This workshop is designed to be used in staff learning sessions, and encourages conversations around the development of curriculum within the school.

Claire Wakeling joins Clay Harrison to discuss metacognition, as part of the school's recovery curriculum. They consider both the positive and negative effect the national lockdown may have had on learners, in regards to their ability to self-regulate their learning, and ways we can develop their metacognitive skills in the classroom. 

The episode complements the guidance page for metacognition, found on the staff learning site.

Links for resources discussed in the podcast:

EEF's Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning Guidance Report

EEF's Summary of Recommendations Poster

Sam Armstrong and David Calver join the podcast to discuss the first week back in school since lockdown, and ways we can look after our wellbeing throughout the recovery phase. We also catch up with Carol Buick and Jacy Thomas, members of our Family Learning Team, to discuss the wellbeing of the learners throughout the lockdown period and what staff could expect when the learners finally return.

Links for guidance on voice protection:

How to protect your most important teaching tool

Voice care for teachers

Protecting your teacher's voice

Further links on learner wellbeing as part of the recovery curriculum:

Recovery curriculum - wellbeing

4 ways to re-integrate pupils

How much school work are learners actually doing?

Kate Guy, Philippe Bilby and David Calver join Clay to catch up on their experiences since the shutdown of schools, discuss the barriers they have faced through virtual teaching and looking ahead at the reopening of schools.

Links mentioned in the podcast:

5 Wellbeing Rules for Teachers Working from Home - TES Article

EEF Remote Learning Evidence Assessment

Open University - Free Courses

David Calver discusses behaviour management with Scott Caygill, Dan Smith and Jonny Williams.  Video footage to accompany this podcast is available to view (Honywood staff only) in the Podcast drop down tab at the top of the page under ' Learning Podcast', 'Accompanying Videos'.  We hope the video footage will help provide a context for some of the discussion in the podcast and perhaps provide a few tips and ideas for improving our behaviour management techniques.  To view the clips you must ensure you are logged in to IRIS Connect on the same device.

In this episode we discuss the theme of feedback and guidance, a topic we have visited and revisited as a school on a number of occasions, but which can often provide a number of challenges around quality, quantity, consistency, expectation and learners' value and appreciation.  David Calver discusses some of these challenges with Abbi, Kelly and Sophie from English, Jonny from E&S/Business Studies and Kate from Science.  Each of these subject teams have recently implemented or are currently in the process of implementing policies for feedback and guidance and the conversation covers thew challenges and aspirations for these teams in terms of improving the quality, consistency and impact on learners of feedback and guidance.

In this podcast we discuss what motivates people to get involved with coaching and the impact of using IRIS as a tool to enhance classroom practice.  Host, David Calver, is joined by Ellen Pearce and Sharon Palmer, who have kindly agreed to share their own coaching journeys so far.

Lena and Clay discuss the most recent research on Feedback and Guidance. The findings are summarised and strategies offered to colleagues who may be looking to implement new strategies or marking policies.

Following on from the Whole Staff Learning Behaviour Management role play session, our podcast looks at the supporting research on behaviour management strategies , what has shown to be effective and hopefully some strategies to trial with your classes.

We also catch up with Abbi McPhail and discuss her excellent contribution to the  recent mock session, where she was really put to the test by a number of challenging 'learners'.

Lena Putter has a fascinating conversation with Maria about her journey through education and how it all turned out to be a bit 'backwards', with details on the book she has written and the Action Research she has done internally at Honywood.