Recently, members of the Senior Leadership Team carried out a week of monitoring across the whole school, an opporutnity regularly used to evaluate the effectiveness of the school.

On this occasion, the focus was Adaptive Teaching.  Adaptive teaching is an approach where teachers use planned and 'in the moment' strategies, resources and support to meet the needs of all pupils in their class to ensure everyone is successful within any given lesson. 

Below is a summary of SLT's evaluation which demonstrates just ghow much thought, effort, expertise and collaboration goes into helping all children acheive their potential:

•    High expectations were a feature throughout.
•    Learning Objectives were used well enabling learning and lessons to be memorable.
•    Lots of evidence of planned and ‘in the moment’ adaptations for children.
•    Really positive interactions between staff and pupils, including strong use of questioning.
•    Pace to lessons was impressive.
•    The deployment of Teaching and Learning Support Assistants was effective both in and out of the classroom.
•    When afternoons were observed, there was a similar calm atmosphere to the mornings and children were motivated and engaged.
•    Embedded learning was a key feature throughout using strategies such as explicit recaps/links being made to previous learning, purposeful opportunities to recall prior knowledge, promotion of resources to support independence of children and a range of strategies used to store learning to long-term memory.
•    Pupil Voice revealed children felt they were more independent and there was an increase in pupils who were happy to ‘have a go’.
•    Children were aware of how their achievements were celebrated and spoke positively about EDI and Language Leaders.
 

A special thank you to all the staff for a really enjoyable week of Learning Walks.