• To learn how you learn best
• To enjoy your learning
• To succeed in your learning
• To learn new skills
• To work together as a team with different people

WHAT DO WE MEAN BY SKILLS?

We are going to be developing skills in the following five areas:

• Learning – you will learn the skill of how you learn, think and reflect – how you learn
• Citizenship – you will learn the skill of being a good citizen; how to be a part of a community
• People – you will learn the skill of how to work with different people in teams taking different roles
• Situations – you will learn the skill of how to celebrate success and how to come to terms with things when they go wrong
• Information – you will learn how to evaluate information and use that information

HOW THE PROJECT WORKS

• Year 7 spends two days a week working on the project – Monday and Friday
• Each Project 7 day starts off in the hall
• Most of the 2 days are taught by one tutor in a home base
• There is be a big emphasis on using technology

TOPICS COVERED

• Schools – past and present
• Crime
• Human rights
• People and the environment
• Media
• War and Peace

SUBJECTS INCLUDED IN THE TOPICS ARE:

• English/Literacy
• IT
• History
• RE
• Geography
• Languages

PROJECT 7 IS DESIGNED TO DEVELOP YOUR:

• Resilience
• Resourcefulness
• Responsibility
• Reasoning
• Reflection

WHAT HAVE WE DONE THIS YEAR?

• 25 students visited Rome for four days last November in order to explore the city and provide research for the book we were studying at the time.
• World famous author Caroline Lawrence visited the school and spoke to Project 7 for a whole morning before signing copies of her books.
• The whole year group visited the courts in Manchester so that they could see what happened during a court case.
• Representatives from the local community visited the school for a “Question Time” style debate.
• We are also planning to watch a football match at FC United as part of our Sports journalism unit.
• Year 7 will also be starting the First World War in the main hall as part of the “War and Peace” unit!!!