What:

Adaptive teaching is successful teaching that requires deep professional knowledge about the curriculum (what we plan and teach), pedagogy (how we teach) and assessment (what is known and understood). Adaptive teaching characterises the expert professional judgement enacted by teachers before, during, and after lessons to adjust their teaching to ensure every child makes progress.  

Why:  We aim for 90% of children to reach combined ARE, and 20% to achieve the higher standard. We want the gap for those at a disadvantage to continue to narrow and be at least 5% below the national 21%.

What:

Precision Teaching is high quality teaching using a direct instruction approach, that is focused on reviewing what the children already know, modelling new learning, and assessing this learning throughout in order to provide targeted intervention where needed. It is focussed on building and embedding fluency in foundation skills and knowledge across the curriculum.

Why:

To ensure that all children make progress, that their individual needs are targeted and that the gap is narrowed, so that all children know and remember more.

What: To ensure that every member of staff, and governor, has a level of knowledge and confidence to support children from different minority ethnic backgrounds.

 Hemisphere

Getting to know parents

Getting Children’s names right

Inclusive learning environments-books, dolls, trips, curriculum, recruitment

Why: We are committed to ensuring that every single child can fulfil their potential at Deansfield and we know that there is clear evidence that schools where pupils from every background do well are better schools.