S5E04 - Beyond the national curriculum: The Primary Extended Project Award (PEPA)

POD-CACHE

00:00 Introduction - Welcome to POD-CACHE, the portable professional development podcast from CACHE Alumni

00:50 Alix Robertson - Alix introduces herself and the Centre for Education and Youth

01:18 Sarah introduces herself and Big Education

02:08 Meet PEPA - What is the Primary Extended Project Award?

04:30 Project-based learning

05:24 Choosing a project - Collaboration, theme setting and helping children to find their interests

06:53 Flexibility by design - Creating opportunities to signpost to learning that excites and engages little learners

08:22 Looking beyond the curriculum and making links with life - The role of the expert

11:27 It's not all about the project outcome - Finding links back to the curriculum, evidencing soft skills and career pathways

14:32 Research, teaching and assessment - Friendly but rigorous

15:00 It's OK not to be good at things, but to enjoy them anyway

15:52 Accessible by design - The PEPA is for everyone

16:42 Empowering young people - the value of guiding your own learning, shaping your own skill-set and owning your own future

18:35 CACHE Alumni

18:52 Non-linear learning and trying new things - Feeling safe in exploration

20:34 PEPA is a commitment - Successfully embedding the PEPA into schools

23:08 Support materials and delivery support for streamlining implementation

24:24 How did the PEPA project begin? Teachers coming together to solve challenges and jump into opportunities to benefit primary students

27:20 The benefits of the EYFS in holistic education - Enabling enquiry and project based learning throughout education

31:00 Find out more about PEPA, get in touch and get involved in the project

32:47 Thank you and signposting

The Primary Extended Project Award (PEPA), developed by The Centre for Education and Youth (CfEY) and multi-academy trust Big Education, will give pupils the chance to be more creative and take control of their own learning.

Created with support from the educational charity and leader in technical and vocational learning NCFE through its Assessment Innovation Fund, the PEPA aims to address specific problems in the ways primary pupils are currently assessed.

Join Dawn as she talks to Alix Robertson and Sarah Seleznyov from the PEPA Project and find out more about how they've been able to challenge the overemphasis on summative assessment that’s linked to school performance measures.

CfEY and Big Education are now looking to prototype elements of the PEPA programme with a small number of year six pupils ahead of a large-scale impact pilot. You can discover more about the pilot project and read the final report here.

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