Truly Great Teaching at Eden Primary

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 allchildren 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 formative assessment strategies to progress learning, identify misconceptions and adapt teaching.
Teachers provide live feedback to children about what they should continue doing and what they should change or improve and will sometimes use ‘next step’ written marking.
Children are given opportunities to self-evaluate, self-mark, check and edit their work
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:

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 effective 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
Will involve formative and sometimes summative assessment which is then used to plan next steps.