For teaching and learning to be effective and deliver the desired student outcomes, it needs to combine the insights from the latest pedagogical research with a focus on developing teaching as a craft. Excellent teachers are reflective practitioners who strive to constantly develop and refine their practice.

We have recently introduced the ‘Notley Habits,’ those areas of practice that enable all learners to make good progress and achieve their potential. Each term, we will have a focus that leads across all CPD and into faculty and subject meetings, and forms part of our internal review process. These will be built on across the year and subsequent years to ensure all members of the teaching staff are confident delivering great lessons for the students in our care.

Through a combination of whole school and subject-specific CPD sessions, teaching colleagues will explore how to embed each of these elements into their regular classroom practice. Whole school learning visits and individual lesson observations will periodically focus on how well established these are and evaluate both strengths and further areas for development, which will be addressed in subsequent CPD sessions.