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Pound shop pedagogy!

Pedagogy
A challenge to use pound shop purchases in lessons to boost engagement and learning generated much excitement among teachers. Mark Fitzgibbon explains

At The Marlborough Science Academy, a focus on teaching and learning is at the heart of everything.

Every week we hand over staff briefing to “Top Tip Teaching Tuesdays”, where new ideas and best practice are shared among staff. This briefing is also an ideal opportunity to share with staff feedback from our “Learning Counts” meetings. These are weekly meetings held by members of the leadership team with sample students from each year group (7 to 13), where innovative and creative approaches in the classroom are highlighted by the students.

With budgets being as they are, we launched a “Pound shop pedagogy” competition in one of our Tuesday briefings and were delighted when 47 members of staff signed up to take their chances.

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