Primary Education Review

To all Primary school teachers in the Oxfordshire area. Our company is currently conducting the ‘initial’ phase of our programme, whereby we are inviting Primary schools in the Oxfordshire area to participate in a free of charge workshop and a free of charge two week trial period (please see text below). If you are willing to participate or wish to have more details please contact me via email.
I am writing on behalf of Craft-ED, a newly formed company to create ‘Learning in Partnership’.
Over the last 4 months we have been consulting and working with educational bodies in a recommendation process to implement a personalised programme into the national curriculum. Designed with the intention of supporting the teaching of the national curriculum in an innovative and creative manner, our programme is scaled across key stages 1-4 but will initially focus on key stages 1 and 2.
The Craft-ED programme is a vehicle to challenge and support all pupils, placing a new emphasis on personalised learning which can be treasured for years to come. It offers all children access to enrichment activities and is a record of achievement; their personalised response to all aspects of the national curriculum in an innovative and fun manner.
Craft-ED’s aim is to invigorate a child’s hunger for learning, to encourage them to take ownership of their education in a cross-curricular fashion and to provide a medium to promote and encourage more parental involvement in their child’s education.
Craft-ED is grounded in personalised responses to any given subject. Our concept provides activities which promote the exploration of different materials and processes whereby pupils communicate what they feel, see and think. Barriers to learning are removed by focusing on the aptitudes and interests of the pupils.
We believe your school would be perfectly suited to take part in the initial phase of our programme. Your participation in our no -cost scheme will mean your pupils/teachers are given access to a new range of tools and the associated materials that will drive the following benefits:
• An ability to stimulate a new interest to encourage learning
• The equipment means a ‘vehicle’ to do more
• New fundraising methods
• A methodology to entice further parental involvement
• Additional extra -mural activities
• Incremental way of reporting
• Added ability in planning
• Teacher support
• A true ability for all children to build a picture of their school life
Craft-ED will provide you with all the training and support your school needs at no cost. We would like to ask that you chose an appropriate teacher (or yourself) to be the central point of contact with ourselves. The process that
Craft-ED will follow, should you allow us to work with your school, will be as follows:
1. We will make an appointment to come and show you our programme and explain how it works – this will mean roughly a one -hour meeting with yourself. (Ideally within the next week).
2. A no fee one -day workshop to ‘train’ your designated teacher will be organised. (If the designated teacher is not yourself then we would like to extend the invitation to you as well). This teacher will be asked to pass on the techniques and benefits of our program to his / her colleagues. Further, Craft-ED would like to extend the invitation to our workshop to a member of the PTA and also to a governor of the school. Therefore the free training available to your school will be for 4 persons. The agenda for the workshop will include:
 Use of specially developed equipment for schools providing absolutely no risk to children
 Subject focus and cross -curricular work
 Personalised learning opportunities
 Raising standards
 Tailoring the curriculum
 Pupil input and
 Fundraising and home networking
Opportunities will be given to teachers, governors and PTA members to experience Craft-ED’s programme first hand, to enjoy the therapeutic benefits and to take home pieces of personalised work.
3. These workshops are scheduled to take place during the week commencing 25th of September, from 09.00 to 14.30 at a local venue TBC.
4. If your school participates in our programme which comes to you at no cost then a ‘base kit’ will be delivered to your school for use for a period of two weeks. Included in this kit are the machine (which is 35cm long and 25cm wide – small, compact, easy to move and very simple to use) and its dies, paper/cardstock and a range of adhesives. After a period of two weeks a member of our team will return to collect the machine and the dies, but the paper / cardstock and adhesives are for your school to keep and utilise. A member of our team will be available for any assistance your school needs during this period and we would like to offer you the opportunity of having a member of our team in your school for one day to help with any area of the programme. The monetary value of Craft-ED’s programme is £2000, with a significant proportion of this being the value of the training, paper / cardstock and adhesive (which are for the school’s personal use). But Craft-ED would like to offer your school the opportunity of participating at no cost.
On collection of the base kit, Craft-ED will ask you and your pupils to complete a simple feedback questionnaire. The purpose of our questionnaire is to help Craft-ED refine its programme in an endeavour to roll it out to all schools at no fee.