Our SLEs

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.

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

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

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.

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

SLE Specialism:

Secondary MFL

SLE Specialism:

Secondary Science