During our LPS Review week, during the Autumn term, members of the Pupil Voice Group (PVG) and the AoLE leader undertook Workbook looks and Listening to Learners activities, and then fed back to our allocated school governor.  

We identified the following strengths related to our Action Plan:

All classes have produced LPS Curriculum Projects with a number of Science and Technology experiences, which enables pupils to demonstrate high standards of work within the science and technology area of learning. Examples of these standards of work can be found by clicking on the hyperlinks below.

Through work looks with the PVG, as well as listening to learners from each of the classes, we found that pupils across LPS experiences a rich variety of activities across the science and technology area of learning, enabling learners to improve their understanding of the wide spectrum of concepts within science and technology.

For example, in KS2 learners were able to plan scientific enquiries about how they could have improved miner's working conditions with eye patches, use VR headsets as part of research into deadly animals, and create animations and timeline presentations about World War II events.

In Foundation Phase, learners were able to classifiy natural materials collected from a local school trip to Penllegaer woods, develop oracy skills using ExplainEverything, investigate changes that have occurred to themselves since they were a baby and observed changes in matter investigations. 

Through conversations with learners, we found that over half of classes have had opportunities for virtual reality (VR) experiences within class sessions. These rich virtual experiences are designed to engage the pupils fully into an area of learning, as well as immerse the learners into experiences which will help improve understanding in a more practical scenario. Nearly all learners who have had experiences of VR within class sessions enjoyed the experiences and said that it 'helped' them with their learning and that they were 'excited to use the headsets'.

Examples of these VR experiences were: looking at the anatomy of the eyeball, London Underground during wartime and researching dangerous animals.

Other pupil comments:

ICT – made it easy to find out things more independently and they felt as if they had more control over what they research. Particularly enjoy and VR experience that they have had.

Science – experiments are fun and they look forward to it, however write-ups can be boring - suggested that we could explore new ways evidencing findings. 

Next steps:

• AoLE leader and iTeam to review all LPS Curriculum Projects to monitor implementation and coverage throughout year – to be monitored during Review weeks.

• AoLE leader and iTeam to suggest further S&T learning experiences, providing pupil voice to help shape the LPS Curriculum – Ongoing target to be monitored during Review weeks.

• AoLE leader and iTeam to provide more ideas for the now fixed projects, to enhance use of VRs in LPS – monitor progress during Review week.