Learner lead education through media
Our School Learner Lead Programme is designed for individuals who have disengaged at school and are close to exclusion.
The provision is based around the students interests and uses up to date media techniques to engage with pupils who are struggling in their current academic climate.
With a strong influence on new media our Learner lead the provision is aimed at focusing pupils on what they need to progress in a multi-media environment.
Schools can take an option of either one or two days a week where the aim is to improve the skills of students who are working below or towards level 1 to both develop practical skills and help with students’ transition back into education.
The programme will provide guidance to pathways that are available to them within the industry and what they need to achieve.
Pupil profiles
Behaviour
· Within pier groups
· Authority
· Classroom environment
Engagement
· Attendance
· Curriculum Engagement
· Social
Alongside the “in-school provision” we run an out of school provision for students who are struggling to engage on the in-school programme. This will be based in Lincoln and offered 2 days a week with the aim of getting the student back to school.
The course itinerary includes:
localRADIO
Internet based radio station run by the students with a variety of programs based around local youth culture, fashion, sport and music
The students will work in front and behind the mic planning and scripting and recording shows.
localNEWS
Online newspaper run by the students covering local news and events.
Students will learn additional English skills, together with elements of design and marketing, the use of social media, journalism, planning and organisational skills working to deadlines.
podCASTS
Working together students will broadcast audio and visual current affairs programs.
Students will research topics and create programs they can record based around their findings, writing scripts filming on location editing content
lifeSTYLE
lifestyle magazines based around the youth culture in fashion and music writing articles, visiting events, taking photographs that can be produced in lifestyle magazines.
Vlogging & Blogging
Students will keep journals on their work to date in the form of vlogs and blogs, they will work with copywriters and proof-readers to ensure everything is correct.
Outcomes
Attending this placement should result in the student having a new-found enthusiasm for learning, and therefore a more successful educational life with increased possibilities moving forward.
The learner lead education through media alternative provision will be branded under lincolnTALKS offer the students the opportunity to own the brand and run it as a not for profit business. All students work in a team which allow for social interaction and makes them answerable to the piers. The provision is based in either a school setting (for the in-school provision) or an office environment (offsite provision). Both alternative provisions will give the students a glimpse into what it is life to work in an office-based business environment.
