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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