Episode 6: A Recovery Curriculum Part 6 Beverley Cockbill
In this episode Professor Barry Carpenter interviews Beverley Cockbill, who has extensive experience of children with Complex Needs through her research and practice, especially in relation to the Engagement Model. Bev describes how engagement is key to effective teaching and learning for this group of pupils, and how it provides a lens through which the […]
Episode 5: A Recovery Curriculum Part 5: Martin McKenna (Palmerston School & Foxfield School)
We hear from a leader in Special Education, Martin McKenna, currently Deputy Head of Palmerston School in Liverpool, and about to take up the Headship of Foxfield School on the Wirral. Martin articulates his philosophy around interdisciplinary teamwork which has a shared focus on a personalised curriculum through a pedagogy rooted in Engagement. The Evidence […]
Episode 4: A Recovery Curriculum Part 4: Jason Cook, Ali Erskine & Anne Mason (Whitfield Aspen School)
In this episode the leadership and management of the Recovery Curriculum is discussed by the Senior Leadership Team of Whitfield Aspen School, a primary school in Dover. This is a unique, inclusive primary school with over 300 pupils, and over 130 in the resourced provision for children with severe and profound learning difficulties. The discussion […]
Episode 3: A Recovery Curriculum Part 3: Vijita Patel & Swiss Cottage School, Development & Research Centre
In this episode Vijita Patel considers the strategic implementation of the Recovery Curriculum for her school, Swiss Cottage School, Development & Research Centre in London. She does this from a stance of compassionate leadership, with a clear focus on engagement in learning. Her penetrating analysis shows how child need should inform organisational judgements, and that […]
Episode 2: A Recovery Curriculum Part 2: Origins of the 5 losses and levers (Matthew Carpenter)
In this episode we return to the Recovery Curriculum with Matthew Carpenter and Barry Carpenter (Professor of Mental Health in Education at Oxford Brookes University), the co-authors of the original Think Piece. In a conversation that was recorded on 1st May 2020, Barry and Matthew reflected on the origins of the Think Piece and Matthew, […]
Episode 16: (Special Episode for Mental Health Awareness Week) When will we talk about the mental health of our children?
In this special episode of LearningShared, recorded for Mental Health Awareness Week, Barry Carpenter CBE (Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University asks this question and provides a lecture exploring important threads and dynamics in considering the mental health of children and young people. Kindness is the theme for Mental health Awareness week […]
Episode 1: A Recovery Curriculum Part 1: A Recovery Curriculum for children & schools post-pandemic
An introductory lecture by Barry Carpenter CBE (Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University) How will it be for children when they return to school? It would be naive to think that they will pick up where they left off on the day their school went into lock down. Barry Carpenter CBE (Professor of Mental […]
Parent Services – Using the Parent Comments.
Introduction This Tutorial was written for EfL 4.5 The parent comments are a useful way to receive feedback from your parents. You can ‘star’ comments to make finding comments that contribute to the learning process easier and you can approve comments to be included with the documents that you make. As with all Parent Services anything […]
How to pair your device
Introduction This Tutorial was written for EfL 4.0 With Evidence for Learning (EfL) version 4.0 we have introduced a very useful and powerful synchronisation engine that sends the evidence data captured on your devices to the learner’s Cloud profile. It will also keep your System Data (learners, groups, frameworks, tags, date ranges and comment templates) up-to-date across all your devices , […]