Learning futures curriculum Choosing your Learning Future.


In a typical classroom, gym, lab, studio or workshop, the teacher asks all the questions and makes all the decisions. The students simply carry out the learning decided for them by the teacher. This means is harder to be the mature, socially aware, independent learners that Villiers wants them to become.


Our Learning Futures Curriculum is one of only 15 projects happening across the country, and pupils and teachers at Villiers are very proud to be part of such an exciting and innovative initiative. The initiative is part of the Education and Learning programme supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Innovation Unit.


In the Learning Futures Curriculum, Learning Leaders mentor their pupils by helping them make informed choices about their learning needs. This happens during tutorial time.


This is what Learning Futures students from Year 8 have to say: Hibak Omar


The thing that has been most interesting in this project is probably the way we co-construct our lessons with our teachers to come up with new things to do, like ‘How to be a doctor’ or ‘How to be good at business’ and even ‘How to save a life’. It helps students to make their own choices and not just to follow their friends.


Gina Sajith


Learning Futures really inspired me to try and think about what I need to learn rather that what I want to learn. I’ve learnt that these are two very different things and being able to tell the difference is a very great achievement indeed.


Amaani Ahmed


I think learning futures is a great way of learning in groups and independently. It helps us make choices and we face a lot of problems when choosing, for example should we chose what our friends are choosing? Should we choose what we want because it fun? Or should we choose it because it will help us? These are decisions we will have to make when we apply for a job or college.


I have found many of the learning futures projects useful such as speaking confidently in public and survival challenge. Survival challenge helped me understand that working in a group is a good thing and someday I will have to do this. Speaking confidently in public has been very useful for me, now in class I put my hand up more often.


The good things about learning futures are that it helps us make choices for the future and you get to choose independently.


At the end of the year all Y8 were asked what they thought of Learning Futures.


Main conclusions.


•The majority of students thought that the Learning Futures Curriculum was important and that it had helped them learn better.


•Almost all the students thought that we should continue with the Learning Futures Curriculum next year.


•Most students thought that Learning Futures helped them make more informed choices and they felt that their learning in other subjects was improved.


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