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EVENTS MANTLE OF THE EXPERT We Believe that Learning Should be, Active, Challenging and Meaningful In September, Mantle of the Expert (MOE) trainers, Luke Abbott and Richard Kieran joined us for an inspirational training on Mantle. Staff returned to work full of new ideas! The training team that joined us have over twenty years of experience in teaching, coaching, and training teachers in the use of the approach. The training consolidated staff learning and gave them fresh ideas on how to engage our children in a meaningful way. We believe that learning with our students through observing sessions led by these trainers is the most comprehensive and practical training available on Mantle of the Expert. Additionally, we would like to congratulate our very own Miss Louise on receiving her quality mark of MOE Lead practitioner. Miss Louise was observed teaching her class by the team and was given the feedback that she is an excellent and sophisticated MOE practitioner. She now has the ability to train teachers across the globe on this inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning. We are so proud of her accomplishment. 24  |   VERITA INSIGHTS Mantle of the Expert is an education approach that uses imaginary contexts to generate purposeful and engaging activities for learning. Mantle of the Expert works by the teacher planning a fictional context where the students take on the responsibilities of an expert team. As the team, they are commissioned by a client to work on a assignment, which has been planned to generate tasks and activities that will involve them in studying and developing wide areas of the curriculum. For example, a class of students are cast as a team of archaeologists excavating an Egyptian tomb for the Cairo Museum. To complete the commission the students will need to research ancient Egyptian history – finding out about tombs, artefacts, and rituals – and, in the process, will study wide areas of the curriculum including, history, geography, art, design and RE, as well as developing skills in reading, writing, problem solving, and inquiry. Mantle of the Expert is not designed to teach the entire curriculum, all the time, but is rather an approach to be used selectively by the teacher along with a range of other methods. (www.mantleoftheexpert.com)