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Engaging parents through cookit

Open Futures provided lots of opportunities for schools to engage with parents and their communities. This short film shows one school inviting parents in to show them how they teach the children and to pass on some of the skills. Cooking is an excellent way into maths, science and literacy with tasty results.

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Enquiry-Based Learning and Open Futures

A brilliant guide to introducing enquiry based learning. What it is and why you should be doing it…

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Evaluation 2007 - 2009 Summary of Findings

A summary of the evaluation carried out by Newcastle University 2007 to 2009.

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filmit Storyboard

Storyboard template to plan your films.

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Food Adverts made by Children

It is what it says on the tin! Oh, no tins! It's all healthy and fresh.The children had great fun with askit, cookit and filmit making adverts for healthy foods.

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Growing skills checklist

A template to record and reflect on skills development.

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growit Skills Progression

An excellent planning and assessment resource for teachers.

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Here's what Headteachers think… Being Open

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film, Headteachers talk about how Open Futures brings a buzz to their schools which is liberating everyone.

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Here's what Headteachers think… Connecting with Community

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film Headteachers talk about how Open Futures is supporting them to engage with their communities be they hard to reach families or older members of the community who bring the added benefit of expertise.

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Here's what Headteachers think… End Notes

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film, End Notes captures Headteachers views on the Open Futures mentoring, training and support model. How it's flexibility can help them to develop their curriculum in line with their needs, vision and most importantly their children.

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Here's what Headteachers think… Enquiry- based Learning

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film Headteachers talk about why enquiry-based learning is so powerful.

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Here's what Headteachers think… It's Liberating

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film Headteachers talk about how Open Futures brings a buzz to their schools which is liberating everyone.

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Here's what Headteachers think… Learning by doing

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film Headteachers talk about how they worked with Open Futures to address the needs of their children. Learning by Doing encourages independence, a real sense of achievement and enjoyment. "It gives the children a purpose."

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Here's what the children think… 1

This film is one of a series of 'Talking heads' films. Children all over the country recorded their thoughts on Open Futures, hear what some of them have to say.

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Here's what the children think… 2

This film is one of a series of 'Talking heads' films. Children all over the country recorded their thoughts on Open Futures, hear what some of them have to say.

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Here's what the children think… 3

This film is one of a series of 'Talking heads' films. Children all over the country recorded their thoughts on Open Futures, hear what some of them have to say.

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Here's what the children think… 4

This film is one of a series of 'Talking heads' films. Children all over the country recorded their thoughts on Open Futures, hear what some of them have to say.

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Hub and Associate Cluster Group Meeting

A chance to hear from Teachers working as a cluster group and how this helps them develop Open Futures in their own schools.

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Impact Summary

A summary of impact from the evaluation by Newcastle University

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Introducing askit and an enquiry-based approach to Learning and Teaching

This short film introduces askit (P4C) the underpinning pedagogy of the Open Futures enquiry and skills based approach to learning and teaching. Join an askit session, see how it works and hear from the staff about how childrens questions are moving their thinking forwards.