A fair amount of work has gone into identifying the learning 'sweet spot' - that is to say the optimal condition for deepest and fasted learning. What are the conditions that make for the best learning and fastest progress. According to TeachWire, the answer is when you are 20% safe and 80% taking a risk…
Read MoreEspecially interesting for us at EUTC. In our fairly small creative college, which specialises in 'hands on', project-based learning in digital media arts, performance and production technology, this is a real issue for us and one that speaks directly to our vision and core purpose…
Read MoreI am both elated and dismayed today - elated by the wonder and reverie of a great exhibition but dismayed because, while I was sharing my appreciation of the artworks with parents, students, governors and industry partners, a parent from our wonderful 'Friends of Elstree' PTA group brought yesterday's article from The Daily Mirror to my attention…
Read MoreThe intricacies and tiny details which give the Hogwarts world a sense of reality and truth were often breath taking. For example, when I saw Professor Snape's potions classroom, I was amazed to see that the insides of all the text books have actually been designed and printed (even though they are not seen on camera)…
Read MoreStudents have been voting for which successful media industry practitioner they want to name as their studio icon. The short list was extensive including Great British Makeup artists like Jenny Shircore, Cinematographers like Laurie Rose, Graphic designers like Paul McNeill, Game designers like Jenny Curry and Filmmakers like Hitchcock…
Read MoreThe 'golden era' of the Hollywood Studio System has long passed but next week marks the launch of our own EUTC Studio System. It's aim is to bring a strength and clarity to the way we support our learners. In other schools and colleges, they may talk about 'houses' but we are Elstree UTC so we're going for studios…
Read MoreI was moved by this piece, enough to buy it for our staffroom. A number of times last year, it was important to hold on to what we were doing, to stay faithful to the watering and feeding and weeding even when we could not yet see the plant. We believed in the potential of Elstree UTC and believed that this would be the year of growth and improvement. We cared for our seedling and encouraged all of our students to do more ground work…
Read MoreBYOD means that, while we will continue to provide the high level industry and specialist technology which is often very expensive, we will also use high quality WiFi to make cloud based software available for students and staff with their own devices…
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