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Learning in a realistic context

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Real

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Linking to local context

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learning grounded within real life tasks and scenarios

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Relevant to student context and lifestyle

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Having a local author or poet come into the school to do workshops with the learners about writing styles.

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More realistic to the pupils, linking lessons and activities

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Authentic learning is making things specific and relatable to each individual learner.

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Having the BBC come in to model report writing

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Opportunities

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Is making learning your own/being able to relate learning to your own.

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Taking reference from the real world. For example, drawing from life rather than from photographs.

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Immersing your learners in local context and understanding the real importance of what they’re learning 

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Immersing your learners in local context and understanding the real importance of what they’re learning 

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Took the choir to perform in Disneyland Paris

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During a lesson on castles we showed how Cardiff castle evolved over time, starting out as a wooden motte and bailey style castle, before being gradually expanded and rebuilt in stone.

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Learning about and then actually implementing their learnings about digital animation into their project

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in music we studied Brahms and the A Level class went to see it in St David’s hall to hear it live and study the conducting of the music

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Ex Pupils speaking to us about their lives, experiences, current jobs and pathways into work etc.

Everyday life skills delivered by ex pupils / teachers that we could take with us.

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A project on a mission to mars, actually getting to program and operate a small robotic arm

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A gym-based lesson, developing cardiovascular endurance through a target challenge. I chose foods, snacks and drinks e.g Radnor fizz that students can access in the canteen as their target to burn on a cardio machine

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Trip to the local Colliery in porth where we went around the museum and they had an example of what the mine shaft were like

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CO- giving a class a brief from a company to commission a poster and teaching the students about invoice and what different jobs there are in the art industry

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We visited and painted the coal mines. Learnt about the history of the what is in our town. We started by drawing it and shading then looking at painting the mines. As well as adding information researched around it

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We looked at Sense of Place, Caerphilly Castle, as it is located next to the school and the learners walk past it daily

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When in school we were often given the opportunity to talk with local sports heroes. One being Joe Calzaghe is from my local area. This often encourages pupils to believe they can achieve similar success no matter where they come from. It’s also always great to see the mining history of the local areas, all the way up until the 1980s to understand the importance of our Welsh culture

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Not everyone is in the same boat. Different lives, different experiences

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Barriers:

Cost—> of the option for off-site activities