Personalised Learning Time

Personalised Learning

Our Personalised Learning (PL) time has been constructed to support our students with high quality pastoral care and our comprehensive CASH curriculum. In 7-10 students complete the following rotation:

Venture Virtues – At Ormiston Venture Academy, we have selected seven Virtues that exemplify the ‘Venture Way’. These are Ambition, Kindness, Neighbourliness, Resilience, Respect, Responsibility and Teamwork. This session gives students the opportunity to explore the weekly virtue and understand how developing this aspect of their character can help them be the very best versions of themselves.   

Global Citizen-During this session, students will be given the opportunity to view the news with their PL Group.  Discussing the news with students gives them a ‘real world’ context to their learning. It also helps students to understand the global context of their local lives and explore similarities and differences. Encouraging students to discuss the news builds upon their language and builds their vocabulary. The use of news in education can also significantly enhance broader curriculum areas, such as Citizenship, Environmental Studies, or Geography. Students become better informed, more reflective and analytical. It helps them understand issues of global importance, and the people and places associated with these issues, by seeing in practice some of the complex problems and challenges in the world today, such as how to resolve conflicts and combat disease.

Literacy for Life – During the students’ ‘Literacy for Life’ session, students will engage with their Literacy Knowledge Organiser and be challenged with an array of literacy activities – guided and supported by their PL tutors – that will enhance their communication skills in both reading and writing: from being introduced to new vocabulary each week to expand their repertoire, learning how to identify morphological patterns and meaningful units in words to become independent readers, to completing bi-weekly spelling and grammar tests in competition with the other colleges of the Academy – students are encouraged to take an active approach to their literacy skills that they will carry with them across the Academy and in their later life. Our vision is to create 21^st global citizens that are confident communicators and literacy scholars.

Votes for School– Each week, students will debate a weekly question. This might be something from the local or international news or linked to annual key events. Students will be engaged in current affairs, ethics, and social issues that promote critical thinking, debate, and decision-making. By debating on these issues in class, students develop their problem solving skills, while giving young people the chance to speak out and be heard on issues that matter to them, improving oracy and confidence and covering Prevent, British Values & the SMSC Curriculum. The overall results of each weekly question are recorded and tweeted.

Friday – Students will engage in a range of topics across the year including Careers information and Guidance, numeracy, activities to follow up on student training days to support independent revision and feedback from the Union of Venture Students.

During afternoon PL sessions will have their weekly college collective and complete our Read Aloud programme.  See our Reading page