Leading Edge

Cams Hill School was first recognised by Government education chiefs as one of the shining lights in education in the country back in 1998 when we were amongst the first 75 schools across England selected to receive Beacon Status. This status gave us financial support to collaborate and form partnerships with many other primary and secondary schools across the region so as to develop a series of innovative teaching and learning projects to enrich and enhance the curriculum.

Over the years, Beacon Status was replaced with a new initiative called ‘Leading Edge’ and we are now the lead school within the Cams Hill Leading Edge Partnership. In addition in 2009 we were awarded Lead School status for Gifted and Talented education.

Curriculum Projects
Our various partnership projects enable our staff to work with teachers from a wide variety of other schools as well as academics and Local Authority Advisors. This sustained investment in resources and time over a number of years has enabled us to design and develop a wide range of curriculum development and enrichment projects. Our innovative Leading Edge Partnership projects have covered a wide range of curriculum areas including; Art, Drama, English, Electronics, Geography, ICT, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Performing Arts, Religious Education, and Science. It is not just about raising standards here at Cams Hill, our Leading Edge work offer benefits to children in schools across the region.

LEADING EDGE PROJECTS IN 2009/2010
KS3 Cross Curricular Day	Maths Stadium Challenge	CHARTS (2009) CHARTS (2010)
Primary Space Challenge (2009)Primary Space Challenge (2010)	Performing Arts Showcase	History Squad
Year 6 Maths Workshops	Acting Academy	.

Our largest and longest running Leading Edge project continues to be our Cams Hill Science Consortium which currently involves staff from over 36 primary and secondary schools across Hampshire and West Sussex. Working in partnership we have been able to support raising standards of teaching and learning in science lessons covering all age groups KS1 to KS5 as well as various curriculum enrichment activities, challenges and competitions.

Click here to download details of our current CHSC projects 2009/10

The Cams Hill Science Consortium have produced a range teaching and learning resources and we are proud that our ‘Thinking Frames Approach’ was included within the core “Getting more pupils to Level 5 in Science” teacher training unit published by the Government’s National Strategy for Science. Some of our recent publications arising from this very successful and ongoing project include;

CHSC Science Pathways - published by Badger Publishing
The Thinking Frames Approach KS2 to KS3 - published by AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust
Primary Teachers Science Conference
CHSC Triple Science Network - a series of curriculum planning resources for GCSE Science
We have also offered teacher training workshops and courses at the Science Learning Centre at Southampton University.

The National Achievement Show
As Lead School we have been invited by the Specialist School and Academies Trust to showcase our work at the National Leading Edge Achievement Shows at the Emirates Stadium in London.

Last Updated 23 Sept 2010

For further information on any of our Leading Edge Partnership Projects please contact

Matthew Newberry
Curriculum Projects Manager
Tel: 01329 231641
E-mail: mnewberry@camshill.com

For information about the Leading Edge Partnerships Programme see their website