Cramlington video case study
Cramlington Learning Village
Creating a more personalised curriculum for languages
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Cramlington Learning Village is an 11-18 comprehensive school in Northumberland with Leading Edge status and a strong track record of innovation in teaching and learning. The languages department has taken advantage of the new curriculum to reorganise the languages timetable to include a fortnightly ‘FLIP’ lesson: Flexible, Learner-led, In-time, Personalised learning. In FLIP lessons, pupils set their own objectives, decide which activities they should undertake to achieve the objectives, and consider how they will judge their success.
The FLIP lessons aim to help pupils to become more self-aware and independent as learners, and allow the teacher to provide targeted individual and small group support. In the other language lessons the teachers also help pupils to develop learning skills by asking them to consider individually how well they have achieved their objectives and to praise the performance of others. To complement the focus on learning skills, the department is introducing more meaningful topics, such as learning about life in Haiti, which culminate in pupils’ making a product such as an object, performance or presentation on which progress is assessed.