Perhaps the most important factor in improving our students' progress is the quality of what goes on in the classroom, i.e. the quality of our teaching and how it can impact on their learning. In our attempts to improve how our students learn at Newton, the area of school life that we must keep returning to and striving to improve is the effectiveness of what we do in every lesson of every day.
This website is intended as a way of sharing ideas and drawing attention to the "Teaching and Learning Taskforce", good practice and resources in relation to teaching and learning. We have identified key issues (see the themes in the "Learning Blog" each month) that may have an impact on what goes on in the classroom and pulled together resources and guidance to help you think about how you might move forward.
If you have any ideas as to how we might develop this further or have any initiatives or resources that you have been working on and feel other staff might benefit from being made aware of, please let us know. The hope is that this area will constantly evolve and remain current and as such become a useful source of professional development for staff.