1. at The Hollyfield School
Teaching and Learning
at The Hollyfield School
Every child, every day

2. The Hollyfield 5
Planning (to include use of data, appropriate level of challenge and support, resources and planned questioning)
Learning environment (to include readiness to learn, seating and grouping plans, deployment of resources, work stations and strategies such as envoys and marketplace)
Engagement (to include a range of teaching strategies, questioning, collaborative learning, independent learning and tracking participation)
Assessment for Learning (to include QLA and mark schemes, the use of traffic lights in planners, hinge questions, progress checks, teacher, peer and self-assessment)
Progress (to include completed classwork and home learning, marking, feedback and students’ response to feedback)

3. Confidence Indicators
Use of RAG system to prioritise support and extend learning

4. Preparing students for GCSE
Level of challenge
Subject content
Written assessments
Memorising key information
Growth mindset

5. Assessment for Learning
Where are you now? Where are you going? How can you get there?
Mark schemes and criteria
Question level analysis
Feedback and feed forward
Redrafting, refining and improving
Peer, self and teacher assessment

6. Questioning is effective when it…
Involves all students
Reinforces and revisits learning
Maintains the flow of learning
Encourages pupils to think for themselves
Models high order thinking
Encourages creative thought
Is differentiated, allowing all students to contribute at an appropriate level of challenge
Encourages pupils to listen and respond to each other
Is clear that wrong answers are not a barrier to learning
Adapted from Gorden Pope

7. Exemplars…

8. Assessment Objectives

9. Literacy…

11. Improving Teaching and Learning…
High quality CPD
Sharing good practice
New initiatives
MAT opportunities
Monitoring teaching and learning:
Lesson observations – Learning walks
– Student voice - Book looks

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