NKLP - Functional Skills Meeting
Pool Business & Enterprise College
Monday 21st July 2008
Present: Nigel Williams, Owen Jermy, Paul Annear, Dene Williams, Fiona Williams, Helen Pengelly, Hugh Wardle, Sharon Callaway, Chris Jenkin
Meeting began 1.15pm
Item minutes.
1. Introductions: Staff introduced themselves and their school roles.
2. NKLP Functional Skills Website: Staff happy to use / contribute; agreed that communication of issues, resources, general information would be added to assist collaboration. Amendments to Staffing Grid D Williams now Head of Maths, S Calloway now Head of ICT. Reminder of website address to be shared across departments nklp@blogspot.com
3. Feedback from the Plymouth Functional Skills Sessions: Staff felt that introductions were somewhat laboured – but subject meetings more useful. Overall, some aspects of the day were more helpful than others, but worth attending.
4. The nature of the pilot:
- A Pilot Study – therefore ideas to be discovered and explored and trialled. QIA interested in the ‘experiences’ of how functional skills may work.
- Cohorts – ‘Start small’ message – generally up to HODs, but pilot groups at level 1 and 2 could be useful.
- A timeframe for delivery – beyond 2008/9 pilots discussed, full implementation by 2010 essential.
5. Awarding bodies: The big message here was to download specifications and sample papers from their current awarding body, but agreed that it would be wise to consider a range of awarding bodies to consider variations in assessment formats.
6. Collaborative approaches – discussion around all three schools choosing the same awarding body for functional skills in their department; though autonomy must be maintained for each department. Reference to Staffing Grid to check which schools are working with which awarding bodies.
7. How would Schools need / like Paul to co-ordinate / facilitate? Paul to contact all Representatives to confirm which days he is available for individual or department support / training, team-teaching with cohorts / attend meetings, etc, as required. All representatives have Paul’s mobile phone number.
8. Training – 4 half-day lead sessions will be available through LA, probably from January 2009 as resources become available. Functional Skills group propose to meet for 1 half-day session every half-term on rotational basis around all three schools. This would allow 30 minutes information – communication session, followed by 1 hour subject specialist session.
9. AOB? None. Meeting closed 2.50pm.
Minutes by Paul Annear
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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