7 February 2021

WoW – parameter CPD Focus – Remote Learning (reading after half-term)

READING	WRITING	ORACY
Reading widely Reading for pleasure	Spelling of subject-specific vocabulary Use of WAGOLLs to model/scaffold (visualisers, mini-whiteboards)	Purposeful and structured communication with others

This Week:

Reminder: CPD – Teams support from DTU, LCH, MRI and JMJ during highlighted KWV sessions. Please call/contact them via Teams during this time will all things ICT related. Many thanks to them for their continued support (and video tutorials for students and staff).
PTSA – our trainee is in school Monday to Thursday this week.
Trainee/new staff induction CPD – after half-term with JWI (assessment and reporting)
SIG – Please forward remote learning provision outlines and feedback policies to RLO before half-term

Reflect…

Feedback - Plan - Teach

Link to this term’s CPD focus – Delivering Effective Remote Learning

Key Priorities

Delivering effective remote learning
Promoting wider reading within your subjects and reading for pleasure

As we move towards half-term, we inevitably will take time to reflect on the last half-term and how far we have come together. Delivering high quality remote learning has been our priority and has guided us along an enlightening journey of self-directed CPD and constant self-evaluation of our practice.

Over half-term, it is important for every member of our school community (including parents and carers) to re-charge batteries, relax and to find time away from our laptops – for our well-being and that of our students. Your mental health and well-being matters and it is vital that time is taken to care for it.

When our students return in the hopefully not-so-distant future, they are going to need the best of us. The sobering fact that ‘one in six young people now have a probable mental health issue’ was confirmed by NHS research last year (this has risen from one in nine in 2017).

Thank you for everything that you have done over the last half-term. Thank you for enhancing yourselves and one another. It is appreciated each day.

Useful references:

Remote Learning Policy (to be updated to reflect recent changes – by the end of this week)

Teaching and Learning Policy (containing blended learning approach)

WLD planning template (updated December 2020)

British Educational Suppliers Association’s LendED platform also provides a searchable list of resources for remote education

TOP TIPS

Many thanks to all those who are sharing Top Tips to enhance T&L through Teams. Remember that the Teams Top Tips Map is saved in our CPD Library here.