Case Studies
Victoria Park Community Junior School – Movie
Assessment for Learning "A piece of cake"
John Searle, Head Teacher at Victoria Park Community School explains how TurningPoint has become a vital everyday aspect of learning and a way of keeping the children at his school engaged in lessons.
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Churchill Gardens School
An Exciting Maths Lesson For Year 4
Ioan Evans, a teacher at Churchill Gardens School in Westminster, enjoys experimenting with innovative teaching and was keen to test TurningPoint with his year 4 class. The class has pupils with a wide range of abilities including a couple of SEN children (Special Educational Needs) so Mr Evans was looking for a teaching tool which would involve all pupils and make them feel included in the lesson.
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Waldegrave School for Girls
TurningPoint passes maths test
Maura Cassels, Head of Mathematics at the Waldegrave School For Girls, is always looking out for interesting ways to liven up her classes and encourage her pupils to participate in more interactive learning. So when she heard about the benefits of TurningPoint’s multiple choice assessment tool, she was really keen to give it a try.
We arranged for her to have a TurningPoint trial.
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Stow Heath Junior School
The first ever vPad trial in the classroom
One of the competitive advantages of TurningPoint is its virtual keypad option. Known as vPad, this allows you to respond to questions using a Windows based device such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), Smart Phone, laptop computer or desktop PC. With vPad you get a virtual keypad on your screen allowing you to respond to full, open-ended questions as well as give multiple choice answers.
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Outside the classroom
Worcestershire LEA ICT Conference, March 2005
Largest TurningPoint polling session ever staged in the UK
The Worcestershire LEA ICT Conference is an annual event run by the Worcestershire LEA ICT team. The delegates are a mixture of headteachers, ICT co-ordinators and subject teachers. The aims of the conference included finding out opinions of the different delegates about education in Worcestershire.
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Bristol Primary Headteachers’ Conference 2005
Encouraging debate and honest answers with TurningPoint
Bristol LEA wanted to carry out a live trial of the annual Audit Commission’s School Survey at the Bristol Primary Headteachers’ Conference 2005. They needed a tool that would enable all the schools to give anonymous answers to their questions so that they could be truthful in their responses. It was also important for each individual school to see the feedback from other schools, enabling them to benchmark their answers against the overall result and encourage group debate. Neil Tuttiett, Primary ICT Adviser for Bristol LEA, decided that TurningPoint would be the best tool to meet their requirements.
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