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Exit tickets are a great strategy to employ that help capture the learning journey at the end of a lesson. Students complete them highlighting what they have achieved and asking...
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Exit tickets are a great strategy to employ that help capture the learning journey at the end of a lesson. Students complete them highlighting what they have achieved and asking...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
It was great to walk through some outstanding Year 7 morning Character Development sessions this week and see some of our inspiring Character Development Coaches engaging all...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Posted by Suresh Varsani
The Business Studies Department launched the Young Enterprise’s ‘Tenner Challenge’ to the Year 10 cohort on Monday, 14 January 2019. It is a National Enterprise...
Posted by Sandra Kinghorn
As part of the GCSE Geography course, students are required to undertake two field work investigations away from the school site. Following on from our trip to Weymouth last year,...
Posted by Sarah Dunsby
Posted by James Felix
As many of you are aware throughout the year, every half term, each faculty is asked to nominate one student from each year group to receive a prestigious High Achiever Award...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
On Tuesday 6th November 2018 a selection of top students from Years 12 and 13 participated in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge. It is a 90 minute multiple choice paper consisting...
Posted by Suresh Varsani
It was great to pick up some top literacy tips from Mrs Cooper our hard working and enthusiastic Head of Girls PE at the start of this week in our latest Monday Magic Moment in...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Over the past four years we have worked hard as a school to refine year on year our raising achievement strategies that have so effectively supported our students to achieve their...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Exit tickets are a great strategy to employ that help capture the learning journey at the end of a lesson.
Students complete them highlighting what they have achieved and asking any questions they might have about the learning. This information then informs the teacher’s planning of the next lesson.
On the last Friday of the Autumn Term Mr Appiah-Twum shared how he has been using this strategy very effectively in some of his Maths classes. It was a great reminder to all of us as we end a busy term and look forward to next year.
Last Friday one of our top teachers, Lead Practitioner Mrs Hoskins, provided some very positive feedback about our third Marking and Feedback Fortnight of the year. The fortnight...
Advanced Lead Teacher Miss Lindau led a really concise and useful Monday Magic Moment at the start of the week, sharing some smart advice for marking and providing useful feedback...