5th Ogden Trust Specialist Schools Meeting Tuesday 12 June 2007

Churchill College, Cambridge
 
 
5th Ogden Trust Specialist Schools Meeting  
Tuesday 12 June 2007 10.30 am – 5.00 pm
followed by dinner at 7.00 for 7.30 pm
The Møller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge CB3 0DE
 

Main Lecture Theatre

10.00 onwards     Coffee for arriving guests
                               
10.30                                  Professor Sir David Wallace, Master of Churchill College and recent past
President of the Institute of Physics, and Sir Peter Ogden
                                 Review of The Ogden Trust by Tim Simmons
 
11.00                       Sir Kevin Satchwell (Headteacher, Thomas Telford School)
                                 “The Thomas Telford Experience”
                                 and Vic Maher (Headteacher, Madeley Court School/Madeley Academy)
                                 “School Federations: potential for transformation”
 
11.40 – 12.00        Questions and discussion
 
12.00 – 1.00          Headteachers:  “Re-applying for Specialist School Status”
                                 Chair:  Graham Lloyd (Headteacher, Holly Hall School),
                                 Panel: John McLeod (Consultant to The Ogden Trust , interim
                                 CEO Bradford LEA and former LEA Director, Wakefield) and Marie Costigan
                                 (Head, Specialist Schools Unit, DfES)
 
Study Centre 2 
12.00 – 1.00          Science Teachers:  “Can the 21st Century Science GCSE Curriculum
                                 provide transition to science A-levels?”
                                 Chair: Julian Wigley (Deputy Head/Head of Science, Perry Beeches School)
                                 For:  Professor Jonathan Osborne (Chair of Science Education,
                                 King’s College London)
                                 Against: Anu Ojha (Advanced Skills Teacher, Great Barr School)
 

Tower Lounge Bar

1.00 – 2.00             Lunch
 

Main Lecture Theatre

2.00 – 2.45             Headteachers: “Benefits and drawbacks of Trust status”
                                 Chair:  John McLeod (Consultant to The Ogden Trust, interim CEO Bradford
                         LEA and former LEA Director, Wakefield)
                                 Panel: Dr Andrew Cummings (Headteacher, South Craven School)
                                 and Heath Monk (Deputy Schools Commissioner DfES)
                                  
Study Centre 2
2.00 – 2.45             Science Teachers:  “ Physics Teachers – endangered species?”
                                 Chair: Dr KeithTaber, Senior Lecturer in Science Education (responsible for the
                                 Physics PGCE course), Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
                                 Introduction and Summary:  Elizabeth Crilly (Director SETPoint
                                 Cambridgeshire and Ogden Science Teaching Fellow).
                                  
Main Lecture Theatre
3.00 – 3.30             Dr Averil Macdonald (Lecturer in Physics, University of Reading and
                                 Science Communicator) “Choosing science as a career – where are the
                                 role models?”
                                
3.30 – 3.40             Questions and discussion
 
3.40 – 4.00             Tea
 
4.00 – 4.45             Science Forum:  “Physics education in the UK”
                                 Panel: Professor Mark Warner (Cavendish Laboratory,
                                 University of Cambridge)   Dr Averil Macdonald (Lecturer in Physics,
                                 University of Reading and Science Communicator), Elizabeth Crilly,
                                 (Director, SETPoint Cambridgeshire and Ogden Science Teaching
                                 Fellow)
 
4.50 – 5.00            Closing remarks from Sir Peter Ogden