Top Ten

1. Teaching and Learning Top Ten
1. Establish clear routines in the classroom and have high expectations. Welcome and greet students at the
classroom door to ensure they enter quickly and be visible in the corridors. Ensure students have their learning
equipment and planner out on the desk at the start of every lesson ready to complete the first learning activity.
Coats must be off and bags on the floor. Check student uniform on the way in and out of the classroom.
2. Ensure that your classrooms are well presented and encourage students to have respect for other classrooms
around the school. Chairs should be tucked in at the end of a lesson and there should be no rubbish on the
floors. Displays should be visual, relevant and enhance student learning.
3. Promote positive relationships in your classrooms and around the school and use emotional intelligence when
dealing with students.
4. Regularly award Super Learner points when students demonstrate the 5Rs and use the Super Learner stamp in
the students’ books and Super Language in lessons.
5. To ensure the highest standards of professional conduct are upheld, everyone must consistently apply
consequences in-line with the policy (see handbook for details). Refer to department lesson intervention
timetable if disruption occurs in the lesson. (3 x C3 or 2 x C4 in a week will now be escalated to a Saturday
detention.)
6. Display the Literacy Focus for this half term – ‘Communication’ and promote this in every lesson by including
structured Talk Time / Talking Points.
7. Set homework using Show My Homework in line with the homework timetable.
8. Ensure there is feedback in the students’ books every 2 weeks (core) or 3 weeks (non-core). Use the SIR
structure and ensure there is evidence of a learning journey in your students’ books.
9. Ensure all Student Progress Tracker Stickers have been completed and the Current Working box has been filled
in for Autumn Term 1 and Autumn Term 2. All GP+ boxes for the year should be completed with the Target Route
Planner. Students should be familiar with this.
10. Plan and prepare for the KS4 WOW Day on the 19th January, 2015 and remember to not inform the students!
Use the blog for inspiration and new ideas.
Jan. 2015