CPD Week 1 Whole School 03/11/2015
Week One CPD is whole school and all of our teaching staff participate. The sessions are internally led, sometimes by our Teaching and Learning Leaders and sometimes by one of our Teaching and...
View ArticleCPD Week 4 Teach Meets 20/10/2015
This year, our T&L groups each have a very specific focus: Magenta Principles, Cooperative Learning, Montessori, Building Learning Power, SOLO Taxonomy, Innovative Teaching, Literacy, Numeracy and...
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CPD Week 2 Departments Assessment 10/11/15
Week 2 of our CPD cycle sees staff working together in subject departments and clusters on a Teaching and Learning focused agenda. This week, we asked staff to carry out a work scrutiny on our usual...
View ArticleSharing good practice
This post will be a collection of the ideas and strategies that find their way from to my email on a daily basis. We actively encourage staff to share good practice, what’s worked (and what hasn’t!),...
View ArticleCPD Week 3 Differentiated 24/11/15
Week three of our cycle is differentiated, with staff split into three groups based on their experience and/or position. Our NQT – 4th years meet together and this week we focused on the events...
View ArticleCPD Week 1 Whole School 24/11/15 SOLO Taxonomy
SOLO Taxonomy This week’s whole school CPD session was led by the teaching and learning group who are researching and developing the use of SOLO Taxonomy in lessons. Starting with a diamond 9 of...
View ArticleCPD Week 2 Departments SOLO 01/12/15
As a follow up to last week’s CPD Whole School CPD session where we introduced the staff to SOLO Taxonomy, we were very keen to find out what staff had done since the training. We asked each...
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Update on our CPD sessions
The return since Christmas seems to have flown by in its usual flurry of activity, so this post is a much belated update on what we’ve been doing during CPD. Since my last post, we’ve had two lots of...
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Raising Achievement
Our focus for training this week was to bring everyone together to consider strategies for getting on with the business of raising achievement, specifically with year 11 following their recent trial...
View Article“This is an outstanding school.”
We’ve been waiting ages for today. Finally, we can tell everyone that we achieved an Outstanding grading in our Ofsted inspection at the end of February; we are absolutely delighted! We now join a...
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Active revision
Revision is going to feature frequently across our training programme over the next few weeks. For our week 3 differentiated CPD this week, our middle leaders (subjects and pastoral) continued their...
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History Key Stage 3 Collaboration Day
Students from local middle schools attended a History Key Stage 3 Collaboration Day on Friday 24 March. Working in mixed teams, they began with a collaborative observation task to review, analyse and...
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Final CPD – celebration
Last night was our final CPD of the year; after the amazing year we’ve had it seemed fitting to celebrate! And what better way to celebrate than a children’s party, complete with games! Our amazing...
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Year 9 Pallet Challenge
As part of their tutorial programme, Year 9 have been taking part in The Pallet Challenge. Each group was given a pallet, that had been used to deliver goods to school, which they had to transform...
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The Bay Foodbank
Our Sixth Form students donated an incredible amount to The Bay Foodbank again this year. Each tutor group is responsible for collecting items from the list and this year some group’s boxes were...
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Carol Concert
We were absolutely delighted to hold our Carol Concert at St Peter’s Church in Monkseaton and even happier that we could share the evening with Monkseaton Middle School. Choirs from both schools had...
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