King James's School

Teaching and Learning

Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Sustained excellence in Teaching and Learning is our aspiration. We believe this will provide all our students with the opportunity to excel, and will lead  to outstanding rates of progress for all students throughout their time at King James's.

T&L at King James’s School

The T&L structure at King James’s school is founded upon three As: Aspiration, Audit and Action. You can read more about our structure here     View

Aspirations 

We expect every teacher to be the best that they can be. To that end, we have set out a series of standards of practice and personal attributes towards which we expect all teachers to aim.    View

We have also expanded on these ideas in our King James’s School Teaching & Learning Aspiration Model.  View

Audit 

We have created a T&L audit model find out where staff/faculties are measured against our Aspirations above

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Action

Our T&L action model sets out how our bespoke CPD programme, delivered through a targeted CPD structure, is designed to meet the specific needs of colleagues. The programme reflects the educational priorities of the day and is differentiated according to each colleague's role/experience/performance level.

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Support for staff

At King James's we are continually researching the latest ideas so that our teaching remains at the forefront of good practice. We support our teachers through bespoke, targeted Continuous Professional Development;

Support for students

Through high-quality teaching, we aim to support our students by:

• Encouraging high levels of student engagement;
• Appropriately pitching challenge;
• Pushing them out of their comfort zone:
• Developing their resilience;
• Expecting them to respond to feedback;
• Supporting their independent learning;
• Nurturing their leadership skills.