Teachers build strong, emotionally responsive relationships with all children in which they:

• See children as capable and competent and have high expectations for achievement and behaviour
• Respect, value and listen to children
• Encourage confidence and risk taking
• Celebrate diversity and care about inclusion
• Reflect the school’s core values
• Manage behaviour for learning effectively

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• Children’s love of learning is inspired at all times by stimulating and engaging learning experiences across a balanced and integrated Jewish and General Studies curriculum.
• Teachers have strong knowledge of the curriculum and research good practice.
• Teaching is planned to ensure that all children are engaged in meaningful, challenging and purposeful learning experiences, making progress and achieving great outcomes.
• Children make or exceed expected progress
• Lessons have clear learning objectives and success criteria which are shared with and made relevant to the children.
• Teachers use subject knowledge and assessment to progress learning, identify misconceptions and adapt teaching.
• Teachers provide feedback to children about achievements and targets verbally and in next step marking.
• Teaching assistants work effectively as directed by class teachers to support learning.
• Teachers build strong and professional relationships with parents and carers.
• Teachers promote high standards of literacy and numeracy across the curriculum

The Eden Primary Learning Environment is:

• Calm, safe and orderly as a result of effective classroom organisation
• Reflects the school ethos and values
• Inspires and supports learning
• Communicates high expectations

Children:

• Express thoughts and ideas and engage in respectful discourse
• Think creatively, critically and imaginatively
• Engage in peer and self-evaluation and articulate next steps for development
• Remain engaged in learning tasks independently or as part of a collaborative group
• Take responsibility for their own behaviour to create a happy and purposeful atmosphere conducive to learning for all.
• Explore, and investigate and play to construct knowledge and understanding in social interactions

Each lesson at Eden:

• Is pitched at a challenging level taking account of NC and EYFS expectations
• Is intellectually challenging, stimulating and meaningful for all children to ensure strong outcomes
• Is well paced and uses time productively to ensure that children make progress; whole class sessions are interactive and of an appropriate length
• Draws on children’s experiences, personal connections and prior knowledge
• Is carefully scaffolded, resources and differentiated for each and every child
• Involves good questioning from children and adults
• Requires enquiry and thought
• Involves discussion and the expression of ideas
• Is well-resourced to support and inspire
• Provides children with feedback about their learning and next steps for improvement
• Has high expectations of and develops successful learning behaviours, presentation, literacy and numeracy
• Involve children thinking about and reflecting on their learning and progress; metacognition
• Involves assessment and record keeping

Is structured in the following way:

1. Clear learning objective articulated. By the end of this lesson you will be able to….
2. Exciting input/provocation at start; either a stimulating, exploratory activity or whole class teacher led interactive input
3. Discussion and questioning to clarify meaning or learning
4. Clear modelling of expectations in every respect: task, presentation, success criteria for any task set, learning behaviours
5. Tasks which may be independent or a group led by an adult
6. Continued teacher input while children work independently or in groups: feedback redirection, exemplification, addressing misconceptions and mistakes
7. Closure/plenary to address issues, comment on learning, check learning, evaluate learning.