Calton+Hill+Milestone+5

16 May 2008

**Milestone Lead Teachers – Liz Hayward**

Calton Hill School started the year introducing Computer in Homes. We met with Di Das and organised a meeting with potential families. Learning nights have been set up three times a week. Glenda and I have been busy organising and overseeing this.

As well as this we have been trying to come to terms with the Inquiry Base Learning and the Thinking Tools. We organised an Inquiry Base Learning unit on Disasters. The unit was a tool and we continue to learn.

Later in the term we went to a meeting on PM Writing. This was beneficial. I held a number of staff meetings on the format of Inquiry Base Learning and we looked at the Thinking Tools. In particular Thinking Keys, Blooms Taxonomy and Thinking Hats. We visited and gained ideas from Musselburgh School on how to incorporate them altogether. I think our next unit this term, at least for myself, is better thought out and more in tune with the way we want to go. As we go through the unit we will reflect and reorganise our ideas, if necessary.

Unit work and other information can be also seen on http://brighteyes.wikispaces.com