Building Experiences

Buckinghamshire Education Business Partnership

Teacher Training & Workshop Programme in Primary Schools

The Education Business Partnership engaged Building Experiences to work in 20 of its Primary Schools, to deliver Workshops. Schools were able to choose from either a Structures or Model Making Workshop. 600 pupils, age-range 8-11 years, took part in the programme.

Running concurrently with the School’s Programme were twilight Training Workshops for 50 teachers in Model Making. Funding was obtained to provide each teacher with a Model Making Kit, developed by Building Experiences, consisting of materials that can be used year on year, and commonly used and easily replaced consumables.

Evaluation of Training Programme

Making Models Workshop Evaluation

Continuous improvement is an important part of our work. Please comment on how well this programme has prepared you to run the 'Making Models' workshop in your school. Thank you.

Content:

Excellent
Enjoyable and practical
Enjoyable, practical, achievable, useful, valuable
Very useful ideas – excellent
Excellent
Very good
Lots of useful information and practical experience to take task into school
Good
Interesting and informative
Excellent
Have enjoyed course. Found it interesting, enjoyable and an educational challenge
Good, clear, easy to follow. Good ideas
Very good
Very good
Good – well workable with age groups intended for

Management and delivery of the workshop:

Excellent and enjoyable
Good pace and use of time – could keep up! Motivating
Excellent – a lot of fun. Motivating
Helpful advice and practical suggestions
Good delivery – by doing we also learnt!
Very enjoyable – I was rather apprehensive at first but felt that I could take the ideas away to use in school
Very good. Relaxed and fun for a twilight!
Very good/very informative
Good
Interesting
Very confident presentation – made good fun and relevant
Very well paced and easily understood
Good. Clear. Background knowledge good too
Very good
Very good
Good pace and variety of ideas

How easily can the Workshop be incorporated into your teaching programme?

Not easily as we haven’t as yet begun the QCA unit on “shelters”, but raring to go in the Autumn Term
Hopefully easily with alterations to time constraints and passing on info to staff
Fits in exactly with post SATS planning
It would be a useful addition to the QCA technology units for Yr6 children after their SATS
Very easily
D.T. – Shelters
Very well – especially after SATS!
Very easily into Yr 6 QCA unit on Shelters
Quite easily with a bit of modification
Depends what we leave out instead!
With Y6 pupils it should be easy
Very easily
Would use as a one of session as this is the end of the year but would incorporate into QCA Tech. Project Shelters
As part of “QCA Structures” quite easily
Very easily for a short 4-5 week programme
Very well

What impact do you think this practical approach will have on your pupils?

Really fun way to learn about model-making
Very positive – will bring a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction. Gives the less academic but practical child a chance to shine
I will introduce them to the idea of being able to design buildings and will broaden the range of materials they work for
Rethink ‘scale’. Good impact
Working in a situation where children have had little opportunity to do practical activities this will be a great way into technology for Yr 6
A big impact. Thank you
It will be incorporated into our D&T scheme which supports practical problem solving
Team work will be good!
They will enjoy the challenge of design
An enjoyable challenge
Very beneficial, gives them a view of the real world of design and architecture
Makes them think, work together, plan, use tools etc
Help them think through stages of designing and building
Much better to use a practical approach for children this age to learn

Geoff Stubbs
EBP Manager

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