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Back to the Sixth Form
Final Year Undergraduate QTS students visited Carmel College to discover how it is different to teach in a Sixth form college. We were met by Sarah Daley, who is in charge of 10:10 RE, the general RE provision for all students, and a Glenn Skelhorn, who is in charge of the A Level Philosophy and…
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A Level Experience
Year 3 undergraduate RE with QTS students spent a day at Haslingden High school, looking at how to teach A Level RS in a school with a sixth form. Ben Wood the Head of RE and the Chair of NATRE welcomed us and offered us pastries and coffee! We then were able to observe a…
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Post 16 in Haslingden
We were welcomed to Haslingden High School by Sally Finney who is the director of teacher training at the school. Then Ben Wood, the Head of RE and Vice Chair of NATRE met us and explained the day. The first class we observed was a Year 12 class. Welcomed the class as ladies and gentlemen, Homework…
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Back in the Sixth Form
Final year students spent a day at Carmel College, a large Sixth Form College that Edge Hill works with, to find out more about teaching A level RS, and what life is like in a Sixth Form College, including the compulsory Ethics and Values lessons for all students. The day began with us being privileged…
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Deanery Day 2016
Third year Undergraduate QTS students have been regular visitors to Deanery High school for a number of years. The main purpose of the visit is to fins out about teaching A level in a school sixth form, but over the years we have added more features to get the best out of the day. This…
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SOLO & Technology at Holly Lodge
Year 2 RE Undergraduate students prepared for their placement with a visit to one of our partner schools Holly Lodge Girls’ College where Former Edge Hill graduate Terri Lee is Head of RE and led the informative and useful session. The afternoon began with a quiz using Socrative, to assess our prior knowledge. Then Colin Riddell,…
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Teaching A Level at Deanery
As a follow up to the inspirational day with Peter and Charlotte Vardy, Final Year Undergraduate students visited Deanery CofE High School and Sixth Form College in Wigan, to hear about the practicalities of teaching Post-16 students. The day began with students observing a Lower Sixth Ethics lesson with Mr Michiels. He used a variety…
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Teaching A-level with the Vardys
We were delighted to recently welcome Charlotte and Peter Vardy to Edge Hill to spend a day with a postgraduate and third year undergraduate RE students and a small number of school based patrners, helping them think about how to teach RS to pupils in the sixth form. The day began with a discussion of…
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Post 16 Preparation
Final Year Undergraduates spent a morning at Deanery Church of England High School Sixth Form College to learn about the teaching of RE Post 16, and specifically A level RE. Sarah Daley, Assistant Head of RE at the school told us about the Art of teaching A Level, using some recent examples from her teaching,…
