The Cambridge Primary Review (CPR) network
Newcastle has been chosen to act as host for the regional centre for the Cambridge Primary Review (CPR) network. Sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation the CPR National Primary Network is a direct response to requests from teachers and others who attended regional and national dissemination events following publication of our final report in October 2009.
The network therefore aims to:
• support reform in primary schools, local authorities and teacher education and training
• support and influence local and national policy development
• enhance the quality of primary education.
Dr Kate Wall will be the regional coordinator and is working with schools and existing networks in the region to explore what the network should look like and which aims from the Cambridge Primary Review should act as a focus. She can be contacted by email: katewall@primaryreview.org.uk or Kate.Wall@durham.ac.uk
** Members can follow CPR national activity through Twitter **
Future Events
A Learning Walk at Murton Primary School, Co. Durham
Cambridge Primary Review Aim(s): fostering skills and engagement
June 14th 2011 from 9-12.30 including lunch
The school has asked for the following questions to be targeted:
• How does our environment support, or how could it be improved to further support, our curricular goals?
• Are levels of progression evident throughout the school?
• Is there sufficient evidence of non-negotiable skills being taught, used and applied across the school?
• To what extent does the use of ICT underpin the curriculum?
A learning walk is the opportunity to visit a school along with professionals from other teaching contexts, to explore a theme related to the Cambridge Primary Review and discuss particular aspects of primary practice. Learning walks will provide professional learning opportunities as well as providing a basis for further evidence collection around the Cambridge Primary Review aims in practice.
Places at this event are limited to 7 in the first instance, and it is free. To register please contact Vivienne Moffett: Vivienne.Moffett@ncl.ac.uk
SCOPING EVENTS
The aim of these events is to facilitate shared experience and discussion around each of the aims from the CPR report. At these events network members will be asked to bring along a piece of evidence which they believe encapsulates that aim in practice in their school (this could be video, a child’s work, planning documents etc). These will be the centre of a discussion to explore areas of commonality and difference when putting the CPR into practice. Discussion will be recorded for analysis.
Events will always be from 2-4pm. There are 30 places on each which will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Scoping events are FREE.
For further information about the seminars or to sign up to attend please contact Vivienne Moffett: Vivienne.Moffett@ncl.ac.uk
DATE |
LOCATION |
FOCUS AIM* |
| 2-4pm 4th April |
Howden Room, King George VI Building, Newcastle University | Well being: Prepare children for a fulfilling future as well as attend to their present needs, hopes, interests and anxieties and promote their mental, emotional and physical welfare. Help them to develop a strong sense of self, a positive outlook and maximise their ability to learn through good, evidence-informed teaching. |
| 2-4pm 4th May |
ED134, School of Education, Leazes Road Durham University |
Encouraging respect & reciprocity: Promote respect for self, for peers and adults, for other generations, for diversity and difference, for ideas and values, and for common courtesy. Respect between child and adult should be mutual, and for learning and human relations are built upon reciprocity. |
| 2-4pm 8th June |
Howden Room, King George VI Building Newcastle University |
Exploring, knowing, understanding, making sense: Give children the opportunity to encounter, explore and engage with the wealth of human experience and the different ways through which humans make sense of the world and act upon it. |
| 12th September | Newcastle University | Promoting interdependence & sustainability |
| 12th October |
Durham University | Fostering skill |
| 7th November |
Newcastle University | Empowerment |
| 5th December |
Durham University | Empowering local, national & global citizenship |
| 11th January 2012 |
Newcastle University | Exciting the imagination |
| 15th February 2012 |
Durham University | Autonomy |
| 12th March 2012 |
Newcastle University | Celebrating culture & community |
| 11th April 2012 | Durham University | Enacting dialogue |
2nd May 2020
|
CA113, School of Education, Leazes Road Durham University |
Engagement: Secure children’s active and enthusiastic engagement in their learning. |
* (definitions taken from CPR introductory booklet)
Past Events
The Network Launch Event was held on the 8th March, 2-7pm, for details, please click here. Details of presentations are below, please click on the title to download presentation materials.
Presenter |
Presentation |
| Kate Wall - CPR Regional Network Coordinator | Cambridge Primary Review Northeast & Cumbria Regional Network Overview |
Professor Robin Alexander - Director of the Cambridge Primary Review |
A new era for primary education? Building on the Cambridge Primary Review |
| Alison Peacock - CPR Network Leader | Children, their World, their Education: A voice for the future of Primary Education |
| SEAMS Partnership, Co Durham | The Power of Collaboration |
| Heaton Partnership, Newcastle upon Tyne | Innovative partnership |
| SHOWCASE exemplars | The Cambridge Primary Review in practice |
The Cambridge Primary Review regional network scoping event - PART 2: was held on the 31st January from 2-4pm in room 1.43B, King George VI Building
The agenda for this meeting was:
• Overview of the CPR and aims of the network from Alison Peacock, National network coordinator
• Opportunity to explore the idea of a baseline evaluation tool
• Explore potential sources of evidence, particularly video, to give exemplification of the CPR in practice and to provide an evidence base
• Showcase material for the network launch.
The CPR Network Newsletter
The first issue of Network News marks the launch of the Cambridge Primary Reviewʼs national primary network with its nine regional centres. Download the Newsletter here.
Further information about regional activities will be disseminated soon. In the mean time the national network website is up and running with a wealth of information about the original review, progress on the national network and in time will include examples of good practice.
