Our SLEs
David Ennion
SLE Specialism:
Closing the Gap
School and Role:
Head of Pupil Premium and Intervention at Twynham School, and teacher of Business and Economics.
Areas of expertise:
- Reviewing whole school approaches to closing the gap for disadvantaged students
- Using data effectively to understand Pupil Premium performance
- Planning intervention strategies aimed at closing the gap and monitoring their impact.
- Tracking and improving progress and attainment for disadvantaged students at KS4
- Planning and delivering CPD for teachers and teaching assistants about disadvantaged students.
- Reporting on closing the gap to parents and governors.
- Raising the profile of disadvantaged students within a school.
Recent examples of work with other schools:
- Conducted a joint Pupil Premium Review of a Middle School deemed 'requiring improvement' by OFSTED to look at how effective their Pupil Premium strategy is and what improvements could still be made.
- Tracking Pupil Premium expenditure and analysing the impact based on GCSE performance.
- Working alongside Senior Leadership to track the progress of disadvantaged students and then planning interventions to close the gap in attainment.
Diana James
SLE Specialism:
Literacy, Special Educational Needs and Assessment
School and Role:
Twynham School literacy co-ordinator, specialist literacy teacher, assessor, SSAT Lead Practitioner
Areas of Expertise:
- Raising attainment and standards in literacy across the curriculum, including introduction of literacy conventions
- Whole school assessment procedures and targeted intervention
- Implementation of Reading Plus programme, key word Spelling Bee challenge and Word of the Week competitions
- Training of staff to support development of literacy
- Collaboration with English subject teachers to specifically target literacy
- Identification of SEN students
- Creation of schemes of work and resources to support SEN students
- Training of staff to support SEN students
- Progress tracking with targeted intervention
- Creation of designated literacy specialists to work with individual year groups at KS3
- Identification and intervention of support for students with weak working memory
Recent examples of work with other schools:
- Training and support of literacy teacher at federation school
- Sharing of resources with federation school
- Support of staff undertaking assessment qualifications
- Inset training for local schools
- Collaboration with local PhD student to trial Lumosity to boost working memory
- Regular visits from local schools to observe teaching and to discuss intervention
Kate Ball
SLE Specialism:
Teaching and Learning
School and Role:
Developing whole school approaches to teaching and learning at Twynham School, with a focus on pedagogy and student learning. Kate leads Lesson Study as a vehicle for school-based research. She is a Science and A Level Biology teacher.
Areas of Expertise:
- Planning and delivering CPD
- Evaluation of teaching and learning
- Lesson Study
- Leading Teaching and Learning dialogue group
- Effective marking and feedback
- Effective questioning
- Positive climate for learning
- Effective differentiation
- Team teaching / planning
- Coaching and mentoring teachers ( 1:1 support)
- Lesson observations
- Supporting trainee teachers
Recent examples of work with other schools:
- Collaborative work with senior/middle leadership to plan CPD opportunities at partner school.
- Supported leadership in raising attainment at KS5 Biology.
- Supported mentoring/coaching of trainee teachers in 11 different training schools.
- Planning and supporting training program for newly appointed SLEs
- Planning and supporting training program for NQTs
Karen Barker
SLE Specialism:
Religious Education
School and Role:
Head of RE at Twynham School, Christchurch. She has worked in secondary education since 2001 and has been actively involved in Dorset SACRE and NASACRE since 2008.
Areas of expertise:
- Subject Leadership
- Improving progress across the Key Stages
- Planning and delivering CPD
- Evaluation of teaching and learning
- Effective marking and feedback
- SMSC and British Values
- Effective differentiation
- Team teaching / planning
Recent Examples of work with other schools:
- Supporting new faculty leaders in creating a successful department
- Review of departmental schemes of work and collaborative work to develop focused learning opportunities
- Supporting the review and development of the locally applied Dorset SACRE syllabus
- Developing understanding of the Dorset SACRE syllabus and its implementation at all Key Stages
- Provision of training for SCITT students on SMSC and British Values
- Supporting first teaching of A Level Religious Studies
- Collaborative development for the first teaching of GCSE Religious Studies
- Support for local schools with A Level and GCSE through the Dorset RE Exchange (Hub) through network meetings as well as the provision of a Key Stage 4 conference on Islam.
Becky Walters
SLE Specialism:
Secondary Mathematics
School and Role:
Lead Teacher of Maths at Twynham School, Christchurch. Accredited as a Maths Advanced Skills Teacher in 2011, she has worked in schools in Cambridgeshire, Surrey and now Dorset.
Areas of Expertise:
- Collecting data from numerous sources to better allow colleagues to reflect upon student learning
- Conducting research projects across numerous schools and in collaboration with universities to help accelerate teacher learning
- Planning and delivering professional development programs to teachers and teaching assistants
- Lesson Study, coaching and the use of video observations to enhance post-lesson professional dialogue
- Use of student voice to explore in depth the learning experiences in the classroom
Recent examples of work with other schools:
- Leading TAG-focused interventions with Numeracy Co-ordinators at neighbouring primary schools
- Supporting Heads of Maths with staff development and training, focusing on teachers’ development preferences and students’ experiences in the classroom
- Managing multiple action research projects across a Maths Faculty so that teachers feel more confident that their decisions are evidence-based
- Most recently, becoming a trainer to create scalable and sustainable improvements at Key Stage 2 across 16 Dorset primary schools as part of a DfE-funded 5 term project
Daniel Kelly
SLE Specialism:
Secondary MFL
Megan Taylor
SLE Specialism:
Secondary Science