Learning Walks

Week Beginning Monday 26th September 2011

Once again a really big ‘thank you’ to everyone who was part of this week’s Learning Walk.  The Learning Walks are really helping give us a better understanding of day to day lessons at Cheney.  Due to interviews for the English post and our INSET day we saw fewer lessons this week. 

Again we have been really impressed with the positive attitude and behaviour seen in the great majority of lessons.  There have been lots of examples of students being really interested and engaged in their work.  Excellent practice has been observed with teachers using positive strategies to reinforce high expectations and standards; for example, ensuring students keep to the seating plan, insisting on silence when giving explanations and ensuring coats and bags are placed on the floor.  It was also good to see really positive relationships between teachers and students where laughter was a feature to lessons and where pupils felt confident about being able to ask questions.

Let’s continue to try to be consistent about promoting the highest standards of behaviour and expectations.  We still need to be consistent about challenging students when uniform is not correct, about expecting pupils to have their bags and coats on the floor and having planners and equipment out at the beginning of the lesson.

This week we were able to visit 12 lessons.