Open Futures Resources

Open Futures provided lots of opportunities for schools to engage with parents and their communities. This short film shows one school inviting parents in to show them how they teach the children and to pass on some of the skills. Cooking is an excellent way into maths, science and literacy with tasty results.

A summary of the evaluation carried out by Newcastle University 2007 to 2009.

Guidance for introducing Open Futures into your school

Ready to print plant family trees.

"This evaluation uses a mixed methods approach (drawing on both quantitative and qualitative methods) to investigate the processes and outcomes of change within seven case study schools from the 2011- 2013 Curriculum Partnership cohort, as well as findings from a further two schools that received initial training from 2008 - 2010."

This is a paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research in Porto 2014 by Pamela Woolner and Lucy Tiplady, Research Centre for Learning and Teaching, Newcastle University, UK.

Summer 2014 Open Futures termly newspaper packed with creative lesson ideas and practical advice.

This film is one of a series of 'Talking Heads' films. In this film Headteachers talk about why enquiry-based learning is so powerful.

Use the correct terminology when discussing digital video with the pupils.

Really helpful ideas for winter or rainy days! Lots of curriculum links.