Northern Saints Case Study PDF 815Kb

Northern Saints Catholic Education Trust ran a week-long,, cross-curricular Design Sprint, bringing together students from across the age range in three of their secondary schools.  The Design Sprint saw the students forming mixed ability and mixed age teams with students from each of the schools working together to create, develop and plan a project based on one of three broad topics that affected their school contexts and the wider community.

The project was based on developing independent thinking skills, teamwork development, idea creation, community links and problem solving, working across the Trust and in teams with different year groups and abilities.

Project Summary:

The Design Sprint had two aims. Firstly, for students to design 9 projects that aim to tackle one of the three topics; How Boys Learn and Achieve, Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Growing our Neighbourhood. Secondly, to create a space for teachers and students to experience and reflect on the skills and capabilities required for Project Based Learning. Over the week, Northern Saints embarked on a process of Project Based Learning for Social Change.  Over five days, mixed teams from across all three schools and across year groups collectively defined challenges, found opportunities for innovation, and came up with brand new solutions to these real world challenges.  Each of the 5 days were broken up into the following five stages and introduced students to a new way of working; Collaborating, Ideating, Relaxing, Prototyping, and Mobilising.

Northern Saints Case Study PDF 815Kb

Read about the Design Sprint and what the pupils thought of it in our case study.