{"id":7510,"date":"2017-03-30T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T10:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=7510"},"modified":"2017-03-30T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:00:08","slug":"open-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=7510","title":{"rendered":"Open Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=7197\" target=\"_blank\">Supporting the Extended Project Qualification<\/a><br \/>\nWe found that Heads of Sixth Form were looking for additional support for Key Stage 5 pupils undertaking the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7515\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Filming the EPQ videos at Lord Grey School.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/P1050206-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filming the EPQ videos at Lord Grey School.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We addressed these complementary needs by working together to provide supplementary support for the EPQ to more than 480 Key Stage 5 students from 12 schools in Milton Keynes.<\/p>\n<p>We worked closely with a number of teachers, notably Joe Kendall (Oakgrove School), Penny Green (Lord Grey School) and Damien Sharp (St. Paul\u2019s Catholic School), whilst supporting hundreds of students as they explore the research cycle, developing, investigating and reporting the findings from their studies. Some of the resources we used are listed below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holliman, R., Davies, G., Pearson, V., Collins, T., Kendall, J., Green, P. and Sharp, D. (2016). \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?attachment_id=7441\" target=\"_blank\">An introduction to research for the Extended Project Qualification.<\/a>\u2019 SUPI workshop in support of the Extended Project Qualification, The Open University, Milton Keynes.<\/li>\n<li>Holliman, R., Closier, A., Davies, G., Pearson, V., Collins, T., Kendall, J., Green, P. and Sharp, D. (2016). \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?attachment_id=7442\" target=\"_blank\">Sourcing credible evidence for the Extended Project Qualification.<\/a>\u2019 SUPI workshop in support of the Extended Project Qualification, The Open University, Milton Keynes.<\/li>\n<li>Holliman, R. (2016). \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?attachment_id=7443\" target=\"_blank\">Writing up the Extended Project Qualification: ASPIRE to research.<\/a>\u2019 SUPI workshop in support of the Extended Project Qualification, The Open University, Milton Keynes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also made two videos about the EPQ involving students and teachers from Denbigh, Lord Grey and Oakgrove Schools, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jv3lnFGzJ1w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/H5IQLUuyCks\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporting the Extended Project Qualification We found that Heads of Sixth Form were looking for additional support for Key Stage 5 pupils undertaking the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). We addressed these complementary needs by working together to provide supplementary support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?page_id=7510\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":6259,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7517,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7510\/revisions\/7517"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}