Author Barry Corrigan, Millennium Integrated Primary School, Saintfield, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Objectives

Microsoft Community Clips, Microsoft Movie Player, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint,

Learning NI environment, Internet Explorer, Encarta Encyclopedia, Adobe Reader,

ACTIVprimary.

Software

Description Pupils access materials used in the classroom to support their learning. The resources are

placed in the Learning NI environment provided by C2kNI and they are then supported as they

complete homework.

There is email support from the class teacher as well as online discussion forums for the

children to participate in.

I also give the children opportunities to develop debating skills to learn the ability to

negotiate.

Learning Areas Homework – Numeracy and Literacy, Thinking Skills, Online Collaboration, Community

Forums, Virtual Learning EnvironmentLevels Primary 7 (AGES 10 AND 11)

Parental Engagement and Collaboration;

Homework Support;

Family Learning;

Social Inclusion;

Lifelong Learning.

Cultural Barriers

Cross-Community Collaboration

Keywords

Project Overview

Enthuse Children

Engage Parents

Bridge cultural divides between school and home

Bridge cultural divides in our communities

WHAT IS AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL?

WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO BRIDGE DIVISIONS?

Windows Live MovieMaker film I composed about

Integrated Education in Northern Ireland

Our education system separates children according to their religion!

Integrated schools were started as a means of addressing the violence in Northern Ireland..

Religious differences were at the heart of the violence

If the children could be educated together, then we could make progress on improving the lives of everyone by

breaking down suspicions and sectarianism.

Integrated schools break these religious barriers, bringing children together for a

common purpose – understanding each other, building bridges and to giving an

innovative education!

An Integrated Primary School gives parents the chance to leave the ‘old ways’ of Northern Ireland behind and make a

new beginning!

WHY DID I FEEL IT HAD TO BE DONE?

CHILDREN – SET THE CYCLE

PARENTS – WANT TO BREAK THE CYCLE

TEACHER – BREAKING THE CYCLE

Documents

Come on – get involved!

Background & Planning:

Video – Classroom Practice and Homework Follow Up

(See how the classroom is extended into the home environment)

• My pupils love using ICT resources in class.

• If they enjoy it – why not use it?

• Parents see their children using the computer for educational purposes.

• The new Curriculum in Northern Ireland is placing an increased importance on ICT in learning – both in

school and at home.

I want that to be a point of contact between the children’s learning and their parents.

Classroom Images:

Look at how I build the link between school and home.

The Online Classroom

Background and Planning

Discussion Forums

Teacher Planning and Management

Student Project Overview:

LearningNI is the virtual Learning Environment (VLE) that the children access for their homework.

Community Clips Video showing some of the areas within LNI

Due to Child Protection live LEARNINGNI access will be available on the floor in Cape Town

Teaching Resources

Assessment and Standards

So – have we seen the end of the school bell?

Is the school day effectively extended into the home?

Am I meeting my objectives?

Parent Evaluation: What do the parents think?

VIDEO – Parent discussing the benefit for her child who has specific needs

VIDEO – Excellent video of a parent, who is also a teacher, discussing how she sees LNI working for her child.

Classroom Assistant: Looking in from the outside

(Superbly entertaining video demonstrating the excitement of my ‘mature’ Classroom Assistant about the work going on in

class and at home)

VIDEO

Parent Evaluation

Assessment and Standards - continued

Pupil Evaluation: What do the children think?

PUPIL A VIDEO - How homework has changed for him

PUPIL B VIDEO - Discussion Boards

PUPIL C VIDEO - Using the Library ResourcesTeacher Evaluation: What do I think?

Assessment and Pupil Tracking: See how the learning is tracked.

COMMUNITY CLIPS VIDEO

(Showing the data screens within LNI)

Children's Evaluation

Teacher Evaluation

assessment

Don’t want to

learn

Can’t wait to learn

No support or helpEmail support if

needed

Find the homework

difficult

Access the

resources to extend

learning

Can’t understand

the schoolwork

Find the school

work interesting

Assessment and Standards – Meeting The Objectives

CHILDREN – THE CYCLE IS CHANGED

Frustrated

Can’t support or

help

Find the homework

difficult

Understand the

homework

activities

Can’t understand

the schoolwork

Can use the resources

to offer help

Can see the

classroom

activities

Interested

Assessment and Standards – Meeting The Objectives

PARENTS – SEE THE CYCLE BROKEN

Teacher and School Information

Millennium Integrated Primary School (School Website)

Barry Corrigan

Who am I?

I am the Vice-Principal, Primary 7 (age 10-11years) teacher and

ICT Co-ordinator.

Why do I do it?

I have a keen interest in computers, especially gaming, and have ambitions of having this medium accepted more into mainstream interest through the use of the

Nintendo ’Wii’ for Dyspraxic children; incorporation of Nintendo DS into maths classes and future use of Sony’s PS3 game ’Little Big Planet’ for collaborative

game design.

Have a look at some of the regional television coverage we have received highlighting our innovative use of technology - VIDEO

Who are we? (Link to school prospectus)

Millennium Integrated Primary School opened in September 2000 with just 10 pupils in a house in Newtownbreda Park, Belfast. Five

years later it opened its building on the present site on the Belfast Road, Saintfield. The school now has 226 pupils, including a Nursery

Unit which opened in September 2008.

Our kids made this excellent video about the school’s history in 2007

PART 1

PART 2

We like to feel that we develop independent, creative and interested pupils.