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Defining and Delivery Wellbeing
Introducing the highly sucessful multi-strand approach to wellbeing at The British International School, Kuala Lumpur
Senior Leaders Promoting Wellbeing
Exploring the importance of empowering Wellbeing Leads to lead programmes within schools.
Establishing good practice in wellbeing
Demonstrations of how you can incorporate the wellbeing practice of supporting others in the classroom.
Developing good practice in wellbeing education
Demonstrations of incorporating Positive Education in the classroom.
Focused interventions
Explorations of different forms of therapy that can be used in schools and the impact of their implementation.
Staff mental health
Exploring how to incorporate wellbeing strategies to support staff mental health.
Writing a wellbeing curriculum
Explorations of considerations for implementing an effective health and wellbeing curriculum in schools.
Sharing decision making with pupils
Exploring the importance of student voice when developing wellbeing initiatives in schools.
Promoting wellbeing throughout the curriculum
Explorations of incorporating wellbeing strategies across all subject areas in the curriculum.
Values driving the secondary wellbeing curriculum
A demonstration of different wellbeing initiatives initiated into the secondary curriculum.
Delivering CPD within a wellbeing culture
An exploration into a CPD approach that is designed through the considerations of staff mental health.
Connecting students, parents, and staff
An exploration into establishing connection between students, teachers and parents through journalling.
Wellbeing: The Global Perspective - Part 1
How has Nord Anglia defined and started to deliver wellbeing globally? An explanation of the process of establishi...
Wellbeing: The Global Perspective - Part 2
The influence of the Anna Freud centre on good practice in wellbeing. An exploration into the reasoning behind par...
Wellbeing: The Global Perspective - Part 3
How do you embed wellbeing into your school? An exploration of different aspects that need to be considered when ...
Opening a new bilingual school
Hints and tips from a school that opened as a new bilingual school and has proved to be successful.
Parents and bilingual education
A principal and a parent make the case for bilingual education which encourages global perspectives but not at the ex...
Data: the impact of the bilingual approach
True bilingualism is a learning marathon, not a sprint. We see how data shows this.
Equally valuing local and western staff
In a bilingual international school, local and western staff complement one another, we see how each are chosen and r...
Developing bilingual learners through one curriculum area
A bilingual primary class is seen during integrated topic work, language and cultural support is both planned for and...
A differentiated approach to assisting bilingual language learners
Vietnamese children join a bilingual school with a wide variation in their English skills, we see how all are supported.
Planning the curriculum in a bilingual international school
Consistent planning, to deliver the same skills and structured programmes concurrentl,y maximises the learning potent...
Developing a bilingual school- the role of phonics
Illustrated by the same year 2 class in their English and Vietnamese phonics lesson teachers explain how phonics aid ...
Bilingual education- Making a great start: EYFS
Two EYFS practitioners, one English first language and one Vietnamese first language illustrate their bilingual appro...
Developing a bilingual school through translanguaging
Unpacking how the translanguaging strategy supports children's bilingual learning.
What makes our bilingual school different?
Senior teachers define how bilingual international schools enabe local perspective and global citizenship.
What engages children in learning?
Purpose, process and audience: Mick Waters considers these three key elements underpinning learning.
The case for formative assessment
Paul Black states the case for assessment for learning, making it clear that it can help to develop more effective le...
Representing ideas through design and technology.
Dolf, an EAL learner, has chosen to work in The Artellier to construct a model.
Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classroom: Part 5
In a plenary session, the class are invited to feedback on compositions created during the lesson by small groups men...
Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classroom: Part 3
A teacher and Juilliard Curriculum Specialist team teach a class encouraging them to think as composers.
Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classroom: Part 2
Using the Juilliard approach in a music lesson, a class explores how Stravinsky creates a mysterious mood in 'Rite o...
Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classroom: Part 1
Using the Juilliard approach in a music lesson, a class explores contrasting accents and slurs to create a mysterious...
Incorporating Juilliard into an established performing arts pro...
Integration of a school's former music curriculum and the Juilliard curriculum intervention.
Enabling Environment
A head of EYFS explains how accessibility of resources at children's height ensures real choice.
Using Juilliard Masterworks to stimulate creativity: Ages 13-14...
In group, the students develop their compositions ahead of performing as a whole class.
Using Juilliard Masterworks to stimulate creativity: Ages 13-14...
Group work on consonant and dissonant harmony.
Teachers experiencing the Juilliard Approach: Part 4
A whole school staff session concludes with reflections from teachers.
Teachers experiencing the Juilliard Approach: Part 3
Juilliard introduces its unique music based curriculum intervention to a whole school staff. As an introductory CPD s...
Using Juilliard Masterworks to stimulate creativity: Ages 13-14...
Introducing consonant and dissonant harmony.
Incorporating Juilliard resources in the Classroom: Part 4
Working in small groups with a Juilliard Curriculum Specialist, we see how an original spin can be layered on 'Myster...
Teachers experiencing the Juilliard Approach: Part 2
Juilliard introduces its approach to learning via a music based lesson to a whole school staff. As an introductory CP...
Teachers experiencing the Juilliard Approach: Part 1
Juilliard introduces its approach to learning via a music based CPD session to school staff, teachers explore everyda...
The Nord Anglia approach to collaborations: A perspective from ...
Nord Anglia's Collaborations foster skills that benefit students at every level.
Juilliard Curriculum resources and teacher support in action
Process skills such as collaboration and creativity are nurtured in staff and pupils through the Juilliard Performing...
Juilliard: Supporting teachers as artists (using Music as an ex...
Positive impacts on students and teachers perceiving themselves as artists are discussed. Challenges, as well as supp...
Juilliard: Supporting the whole child
Teachers and pupils talk about Juilliard enhancing problem solving, creativity and critical thinking.
Incorporating Juilliard resources into Primary School Music
Exploring the benefits of enhancing an existing music curriculum with the Juilliard approach.
Implementing the programme
A head of arts discusses ways of implementing the Juilliard Performing Arts Music curriculum across all age ranges.
Being Ambitious collaborating with Juilliard Performing Arts - ...
Sharing ambition from the top, sufficient lead time and CPD is key to implementing collaborations like Juilliard Perf...
A message for future applicants
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai reflect on what they would say to anyone thinking of taking pa...
Reflections
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai will reflect on how they have benefitted from taking part in t...
Lightbulb moments
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai talk about the lightbulb moments that they had as a result of ...
When are you a Leader or a Manager?
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai will discuss when they are a leader and when they are a manager.
Developing leadership skills
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai will reflect on the skills that they developed whilst taking p...
Why participate in a leadership course?
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai will reflect on why you should take part in one of the NAU Lea...
What makes a great leader?
Colleagues from Nord Anglia International School Dubai will reflect on what makes a great leader and remember the lea...
Appropriate contexts for learning and teaching
Appropriate contexts for learning and teaching in the Early Years.
Introduction to Early Years Provision
The film compares building with bricks and blocks in nursery and reception, each filmed for around twenty minutes.
Responsive World Class Curriculum: Case Study Reception
The film shows how a practitioner develops learning in both the prime and specific areas.
Responsive World Class Curriculum: Case Study Nursery
The film centres on how teachers adjust the continuous provision in response to an interest expressed by a child, in ...
Planning Through Assessment
We see a teacher scribing for reception age children who are being encouraged to develop stories of their own.
Professional Development in Early Years
The clip features reception age children, inspired to build an extension of the Dubai Metro in their classroom.
Evolving to Maximise Effectiveness
The featured discussion relates to a shared observation from the teachers that children starting nursery have been no...
Reviewing to Maximise Effectiveness
Planning featured in this clip is for nursery age children at the start of the autumn term.
Taking Risks
We capture how teachers are settling children as they embed routines in the early stages of the school year.
Curriculum Design
Within the clip, we feature the delivery of the characteristics of effective learning and the prime areas in nursery,...
Juilliard: Introducing the collaboration
Juilliard's Curriculum Specialists are both professional musicians and educators and can introduce engagement, creati...
Building skills across the curriculum
Students and a PE teacher reflect on how skills practised in Performing Arts subjects transfer to many subjects, illu...
Assessment and evaluation
Considering how we evaluate the effectiveness of Early Years practice and provision through the outcomes that childre...
Teaching the curriculum
The nature of teaching in Early Years classrooms differs significantly from other Primary age ranges in both process ...
Encountering learning
Vital to monitoring the quality of Early Years provision is understanding the nature of how children of this age lear...
The enabling environment
The physical nature of the environment – both inside and outside – is a vital component in ensuring and facilitating ...
Defining the otherness of Early Years
This introduction will explore the key differences between Early Years classes and the rest of the Primary school age...
Improving Writing 1: Vivid Verbs
This first grade teacher introduces a class on the carpet to superior, more vivid verbs.
Improving Writing 3: Mentoring Improvement in Writing
An extended conversation to improve writing standards between a first grade pupil and his teaching assistant.
Exploring Non-Standard Measurements Using IT 1
Joaquim uses non-standard tools to measure the length of different school supplies.
Exploring Non-Standard Measurements Using IT 2
Children use non-standard tools to measure the length of different school supplies.
Creating Number Stories as a Solution Strategy in Math(s)
Children practise explaining solution strategies to an addition number story.
Learning About Fractions Using IT 1
Joaquim is using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a conceptual u...
Learning About Fractions Using IT 2
Two children are using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a concep...
Learning About Fractions Using IT 3
Two children are using the app 'Slice Fractions'. The game helps visualise a whole or equal shares promoting a concep...
IT Integration in the Classroom 2
The shift in a school to the total integration of IT into subject teaching is further examined.
Integrating Technology Throughout The Curriculum
An IT teacher explains how she enhances Math(s) teaching in grade 8 in this school in Mexico.
IT integration in First Grade: Fractions
An IT teacher and a first grade teacher delivering Math(s) explain how planning and teaching together enables deeper ...
IT Integration in First Grade: iPad Basics and Non-Standard Mea...
The simultaneous teaching of IT and Math(s) is illustrated as children work independently in non-standard measurement.
IT Integration in First Grade: Reflecting on Learning
A Math(s) and IT teacher reflect on the advantages of recording children's voices and written explanations 'live' as ...
IT Safety in School
IT Safety considerations are considered by The Director of Technology at a 5-16 school in Mexico.
8th Grade Reflecting on the Personal Learning Plan
8th grade students reflect on improving their learning through the use of their Personal Learning Plan.
Language Arts
Raising standards in literacy has benefitted from the Language Arts approach at this school in Mexico.
Middle School Math Data Meeting
Sharing data with students and translating targets to student centred language is enabling students to set their own ...
Response to Intervention Meeting
An RTI coach explains how pupils become more successful by teachers observing their work.
Student Support Team - The SST
Tailoring individual academic experiences, noting areas for opportunity, listening to concerns, sharing strategy base...
The School That Knows Itself: Data
We see how diverse data, used daily by pupils, administrators and teachers is enabling challenge in learning for ever...
The School That Knows Itself: Purpose and Direction
Ensuring that mission and vision are visible in classrooms and their effects inspire students can be measured is seen...
The School That Knows Itself- Being Ambitious
The academic director and principal of a 5-16 school vision the next five years.
Using the Personalised Learning Plan
We watch as a teacher interviews students working on their next challenging targets using their personalised learning...
Decision-making
The teacher outlines a French lesson in which children revisit their first year's work by putting together (and later...
The Vegetable Patch
A group of children in this private nursery talk informally with their teacher and each other, and make visits to the...
Creative Thinking
A primary school teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) talks about the advantages of sharing a ...
Encouraging Ownership
A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the significance of helping childre...
Sharing Learning Objectives
A high school science teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) considers the advantages of sharing...
Encouraging Independent Learning
A member of a high school's senior leadership team (and science teacher) reflects on the school's efforts to help stu...
Shaping the Curriculum
A primary head-teacher outlines his vision for learning and explains how he and his staff have developed and shaped t...
Looking at Learning
A primary head-teacher responds to a question about what 'warms his heart' as he walks through the school and sees th...
Success Criteria
A primary head-teacher responds to the suggestion that, when he and his colleagues are assessing children's success, ...
Developing a Learning Environment
A primary head-teacher is asked about the physical environment, and how this important aspect of climate is influence...
The Whole Child
A primary head-teacher responds to a question about the school's emphasis on the individual child and, in particular,...
Innovation in Leadership
A primary head-teacher is asked how it feels to be seen as an innovator in aspects of curriculum development.
Involving Parents
Teachers from Nursery and Reception classes reflect on ways to encourage parents to be involved in their children's l...
Reviewing Together
Nursery and Reception teachers describe how they and their colleagues record, review and plan collaboratively.
Encouraging Independence
Nursery and Reception teachers talk about how they plan and organise their work in partnership.
Bag of Pictures
After the morning's activities have been introduced, the teacher develops questions about what pirates have on their ...
Clouds and Fish
Introducing the morning's activities on pirates to her mixed YR/Y1 class, the teacher reminds the children of their r...
Activities
The children are engaged in a range of planned activities relating to their chosen topic 'pirates'.
More Making
Learning partners continue to construct their smoke alarm, experiencing difficulties as well as successes.
Success and Reflection
The teacher supports and encourages the children in moving to a final successful conclusion.
Persistence and Expectation
Pupils in this introductory lesson on 'Atoms' work individually on a worksheet task.
Drawing of Lesson
As the final activity of an introductory lesson on Atoms, the teacher introduces a task requiring pupils to draw a pi...
Help Opportunities
Children in the top set are working on group presentations to showcase their first year of French.
Learning Dispositions
An Early Years teacher reflects on her school's curriculum and shared emphasis on dispositions for learning such as t...
Forest School Opportunities
Jenny Doyle, at the time Worcestershire's Forest School Co-ordinator and a key figure nationally in the Forest School...
Celebrating the Environment
Jenny Doyle, at the time Worcestershire's Forest School Co-ordinator and a key figure nationally in the Forest School...
Challenge Level
Pupils from this able French group reflect on a lesson in which they have prepared a presentation to showcase their f...
Keeping on Questioning
A group of pupils discuss their science lesson (which introduced the topic 'Atoms') with their teacher.
Qualities of Learning
Pupils continue to reflect on their learning and how it was supported in the introductory lesson on Atoms.
Reviewing Learning
Pupils continue to reflect on how their learning was supported in the introductory lesson on Atoms.
Sharing Information
Pupils continue to think about how their learning was supported in the introductory lesson on Atoms.
Layout Design
In this PE lesson, a pair of learning partners are designing the layout for a routine to include a range of apparatus...
Collaborative Layout
As this PE lesson continues, two pairs of learning partners are bringing together their separate ideas for a routine ...
Our Own Museum
Following a visit to the local museum, these nursery children have planned and set up their own museum in the role-pl...
Bridge Building
Following a story stimulus, nursery children use a variety of materials to build a bridge which has to be safe enough...
Shelter Building
Following a story stimulus, children at Forest School are building a shelter from materials they have collected.
Parents supporting schools (but might be called) Learning is Fun
A primary deputy headteacher responds to two prompts.
Taking Part
Students in this mixed ability group reflect on their attitude to drama lessons and what encourages them to take part.
Making Learning Enjoyable
A mixed ability group of boys continue to reflect on their drama lesson, and consider what made the lesson enjoyable.
Getting the key from the ice cube
A nursery teacher leads children through an exploration of how to release a key from an ice cube so that a box of tre...
Discussion and questioning
Year 1 children discuss the way in which a light source can make shadows.
Light and dark _ reviewing the learning
A year 1 class are revisiting the vocabulary and concepts that they have encountered in a topic on light and dark.
Developing success criteria _ movement and dance
A year 6 class are exploring mood and character in paintings.
Fundamentals of assessment for learning
Paul Black talks about the fundamental features of assessment for learning, building pupils' understanding of the pur...
Negotiating Success Criteria
Paul Black talks about the importance of negotiating success criteria with pupils, making outcomes achievable but at ...
Understanding the big picture
In order for pupils' day to day learning to be meaningful, they need to understand how it fits into the bigger picture.
Teachers rethinking their roles
Paul Black speaks about the challenges for teachers inherent in assessment for learning that requires a rethinking th...
Nurturing pupils' engagement with learning
The engagement with learning shown by babies and young children is often not evident in school.
Assessment for learning with lower attainers
Paul Black talks about the particular impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers, as well as ab...
Characteristics of the AfL classroom
Classrooms where assessment for learning has been implemented can appear and sound very different from conventional c...
The school context for promoting AfL
Time for discussion within school and for teachers to observe each other's practice are essential elements of continu...
Formative feedback versus marks and grades
Paul Black talks about the importance of feedback to pupils that supports their learning and the negative impact that...
Introducing AfL in secondary schools
Paul Black talks about the issues for teachers and for pupils where assessment for learning is being introduced in so...
Teachers reactions to assessment for learning
Paul Black talks about how assessment for learning touches the core of teachers' work because it relates to the funda...
Assessment for Learning in secondary schools
Paul Black presents the case for assessment for learning in secondary schools.
The hot and cold game
In this primary school, a range of activities are used to make learning a modern foreign language enjoyable and fun.
MfL in the primary curriculum
A primary teacher with modern foreign languages responsibility talks about introducing French to primary pupils and h...
Talking about the animals
A year 5 class are working on naming animals in French and linking this with previous work on colours.
Pass the parcel
As part of a French lesson talking about animals, the children work in groups playing pass the parcel, using their kn...
Conversations about animals
Building on whole class and group work earlier in the lesson, the children use the French to which they have been int...
Supporting in French
A class teacher, who supports French being taught to her class, talks about her role and experiences, and the impact ...
Incorporating French into the school day
A class teacher talks about how French is incorporated into the wider curriculum and the advantages that children who...
Naming the colours - German
Children use an activity, in which they step on coloured cards in sequence, to revise the names of colours in German.
Find the object
Year 6 pupils in a German class are involved in a team game to find objects as they are named by the teacher.
Recapping French Vocabulary
The teacher leads a lively start to a French lesson with a year 3 class, recapping some vocabulary with the class.
Language detectives
As part of a theme of exploring languages and the similarities between them, year 3 children match number names in Fr...
How do we develop better learners?
Patricia Broadfoot talks about the distinction between summative and the impact that can have on standards and the c...
Knowing where they are going
Patricia Broadfoot talks about students' understanding of where their learning is going, both in the short term withi...
Feedback and classroom dialogue
Verbal and written feedback that supports the student in knowing where to go next is essential to learning.
Giving students the language of assessment
Patricia Broadfoot talks about how teachers can give students the language of assessment so that students become auto...
Self and peer assessment
Self and peer assessment make sense when assessment is understood as a process of empowering students in their learning.
Getting the best from all learners
Patricia Broadfoot talks about the impact that assessment for learning can have for lower attainers including boys, g...
The potential of assessment for learning
The evidence shows that there is no other educational innovation that has such power to raise standards.
Cooking Pot
Using a very effective cooking pot analogy, the teacher encourages children to devise and make some sort of alarm by ...
Flipchart List
Having helped pupils to recall what they already know about atoms, the teacher asks them to think about what they wou...
Introductory Slides
The teacher introduces the new topic 'Atoms', emphasising that this will build on the previous year's work.
Planning the Alarm
Learning partners plan their smoke alarm; the teacher helps them to bring together their two ideas.
Group Reporting Task
The teacher introduces the Secret Text task which involves groups in working collaboratively, and with limited time, ...
Electron Mystery
Referring back to learning objectives and to the pupils' list (already constructed on the flipchart) of what they hop...
Story Telling
The teacher (with the assistance of a basket of props) reads the class the Very Lazy Ladybird story.
Planning Together
Two practitioners meet to share information and observations about the children's achievements earlier in the day (in...
Mini-beasts
A Teaching Assistant has come across two boys in the school grounds as they find and look at some mini-beasts.
Musical Instruments
Children are involved in two related activities. First, they look for, discuss and draw mini-beasts. Then they make m...
Fairness Photo-line
Groups of children are given the same set of photographs and asked to collaborate in ranking them in order of 'fairne...
New Forest School
KS2 children are involved in the real tasks of designing and making a new Forest School as the original site is becom...
Badger Holes
These children discover new badger holes and footprints as they walk through the woodland on their way to Forest Scho...
Being Imaginative (but might be called Outdoor Painting)
Children in this primary school are using an outdoor area close to the school as the stimulus and setting for their p...
Bird Table
The children enjoy observing a bird table outside the window, and feed the birds regularly.
Planning with Children
Following their visit to the local museum, these Nursery children meet to remember what they saw and to plan their ow...
Project Planning with Staff
Nursery staff meet to finalise details of the forthcoming visit to the local museum.
Sorting Twigs
As part of their preparation for visits to Forest School, these children are learning to sort twigs into categories b...
Testing Balloons
Following a story-starter, children have explored ways of helping the Very Lazy Ladybird to fly.
Starting the Day
It is the start of the day and these Reception children are being encouraged to be independent by signing in.
Encouraging Risk-taking
A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the significance of sharing with ch...
Developing Metacognition
A primary teacher (and member of the school's senior leadership team) reflects on the importance of children's awaren...
Learning-based Displays
A member of a high school's senior leadership team (and science teacher) considers how changes in the way the school ...
Mouse Tails
Nursery children use a collection of home-made mice with tails of different lengths to explore the concepts of 'long...
Train Ride
As part of their outdoor play, nursery children have helped to construct a train out of cardboard boxes.
Puppet Screen
Following a visit to their Forest School, primary children plan and make puppets using twigs and other natural materi...
Decorating Sticks
These nursery children have a new set of sticks which they will use to make, and to enjoy, music.
Forest School Printing
Children visit their own Forest School to choose and collect materials for printing.
Assessment for learning _ subject variations
Paul Black talks about variations in the ways that assessment for learning can operate in different subjects while at...
Fun with colours
In this school, the aim is to engage children in learning a modern foreign language through activities, games and songs.
Heads and shoulders
Year 3 children sing 'heads and shoulders' as part of a French lesson with a focus on naming parts of the body.
Learning within a broad curriculum
Why don't we assess across a broad curriculum and acknowledge that learning is complex and uneven?
Continuity in children's learning - laying the crazy paving
What is the starting point in planning learning?
What does outstanding learning look like?
What does learning look like in successful schools and how does this impact on measured outcomes for pupils?
What does learning and teaching look like over time?
What do you want children to experience and achieve?
Opening doors and inviting children through
Mick Waters talks about developing children with growth mindsets and avoiding the pressures of the education system t...
What is outstanding teaching - 1?
What does good teaching look like inside and outside of the classroom?
What is outstanding teaching - 2?
Mick Waters offers a definition of an outstanding teacher in terms of the teacher's contribution to the learning comm...
What can school leaders influence?
What are the elements of the school that leadership can influence?
What is the place of rote learning?
Mick Waters considers the place of rote learning in education and its strengths and limitations.
Meeting ourselves coming back
What are the impacts of accountability? Mick Waters considers the narrowness of current accountability measures.
Engaging all children in their learning
Mick Waters talks about successful schools where all children are architects of their own learning
Success criteria in GCSE English
A year 10 English group explore how poetic techniques can create feelings in the reader.
Discussing and evaluating team work
A group of students from a GCSE Manufacturing course are discussing and evaluating their team work.
Revisiting learning intentions and success criteria
In a GCSE Manufacturing group, the teacher leads the students in revisiting the learning intentions and success crite...
The teacher's role in AfL
A teacher talks about how the role of the teacher changes as assessment for learning is introduced.
The AfL classroom - 1
A deputy head teacher talks about the characteristics of an assessment for learning classroom.
The AfL classroom _ 2
A deputy head teacher talks about assessment for learning within the context of a year 10 boys GCSE English group.
Learning intentions, success criteria and making errors
The fundamental importance of sharing learning intentions and developing success criteria with the learners are empha...
Questioning and no hands up
A deputy head teacher talks about the impact of no hands up as a technique for involving all students in classroom di...
Collaborative learning and effective group work
In this clip, a deputy head teacher talks about developing procedures and defining roles for group work in conjunctio...
Feedback, peer assessment and reflective learning
In relation to a year 10 GCSE English group, a deputy head teacher talks about how students have developed feedback s...
AFL and CPD - 1
A deputy head teacher talks about the on-going CPD process that is being used to support the development of assessmen...
AfL and CPD - 2
Describing her school as a learning community, a deputy head teacher talks about how staff are utilising the same app...
Peer and self assessment in GCSE English
A group of students present its analysis of a stanza from Dulce et Decorum Est.
Sharing lesson intentions
After recapping the previous lesson, the teacher outlines plans for the current lesson and shares intended learning o...
Starting the group task
A group of four use valuable time in their unsuccessful search for a group name
Ideas taking shape
Groups are now ready to start preparing written bids which need to reflect their reasoning.
Review and reflection
The lesson ends with a review session. Individual and group reflection is followed by feedback and discussion on how ...
How do pupils see the link between reading and writing skills?
Talk partners are used to develop pupils' understanding of how reading helps the development of writing skills and vi...
What does it mean to compare characters in a book Part 1?
Through classroom dialogue including the use of talk partners, pupils explore the use of connectives to express diffe...
What does it mean to compare characters in a book Part 2?
Pupils' use of connectives to express similarities and differences are explored through talk partners and in a whole ...
What does it mean to compare characters in a book Part 3?
Through classroom discussion, pupils talk about the techniques and skills they will need to use when comparing charac...
What does this picture mean to you? - comparing characters
Using pictures as prompts, pupils show their developing understanding of the characters and themes of a book (The Boy...
What are the benefits of studying whole books?
The benefits of working with whole books through the school year are illustrated in group work where pupils explore t...
How can you promote in-depth exploration of text?
Having studied a whole book (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) through the year, pupils show how they have developed sk...
How can a teacher promote exploration of text for meaning?
A teacher leads a group of pupils in exploring meaning in text, from the book that pupils have been studying through ...
How do pupils understand their leaning? - developing meta-cogni...
Pupils talk about collaborative learning, the role of success criteria and the role of their personal targets, reflec...
Studying whole books _ what are the pupils' perspectives?
Pupils talk with their teacher about the challenges and benefits of studying whole books and the impact that studying...
How do you develop pupils understanding of success criteria for...
Success criteria can be difficult to express for the complex skills involved in writing.
How do you develop pupils understanding of success criteria for...
During the course of their writing, pupils share what they have produced so far as part of a whole class review.
How can pupils be introduced to success criteria? _ an example ...
A teacher leads pupils in exploring the success criteria for a letter they are to write, for a learning objective abo...
What is the place of whole books in the new curriculum?
With whole books at the heart of learning and teaching, an assistant head teacher talks about how her school carries ...
How should teachers evaluate and plan towards a whole book appr...
An assistant head teacher talks about the impact of a whole books approach on children's learning and motivation.
What is the impact of a whole books approach on pupils learning?
A head teacher talks about how learning and teaching based on whole books has engaged and motivated pupils.
Providing thinking time
A high school teacher reflects on thinking time in her Year 8 lesson, in terms of both how she provides this and how ...
Grouping strategies
A high school teacher reflects on her role in managing the formation of pupils working groups in her lessons and the ...
Encouraging transfer
A teacher reflects on her Year 8 local geography lesson and its emphasis on process.
Life long learning
In this short extract, a high school teacher (and the schools' Leader for Humanities) responds to a question about he...
EYFS: Developing Writing
This clip is a commentary of how writing develops which works well with the clip "Tomi Writing'.
Supporting a specialist EYFS team
A principal talks of how he supports the expertise of a specialist EYFS team.
EYFS- The Vital Foundation
A principal talks about why the foundation stage is vital in terms of both learning and social skills.
Supporting the play-based approach
A principal tells us of his support for a play based approach in EYFS as long as it has the right expertise behind it.
Observation, planning and ensuring development.
A principal explains how skilled observation at EYFS drives next steps of development.
Parents view on play based settings
Parents give their views on play-based early years and contrast this to more formal settings.
Parents Communicating with Early Years Settings
Parents explain how communication- informal, social media, email, and formal reports are all important.
Planning in the moment
Trainee practitioner, Jillian, explains how she is finding that genuine interest from the children is essential.
Releasing the Butterflies Commentary
Practitioner Emma reflects on the clip "releasing the Butterflies.'
Assessing and Recording Progress
A head of EYFS explains how using IT through an app to track learning.
Assessment and parental involvement
A head of EYFS talks about involving parents by sharing aspects of planning and assessment through IT and social media.
Language and Culture
A head of EYFS talks about English as the professional language of her setting despite it being the home language for...
Heritage Language and Home Culture
A head of EYFS describes how she celebrates and values children's heritage and home language.
Parents and Early Years
A head of EYFS explains how evolving an EYFS unit needs to have parents on board.
Developing an Early Years Unit
A head of EYFS reveals how a focus on documentation and play based learning shaped the philosophy of a new EYFS unit.
The Water Wall
Five boys, with a range of heritage languages, play independently with water at a commercially produced set of pipes ...
Releasing the Butterflies
Both years in EYFS have been nurturing butterflies and today, they are to be released.