Core Staff Dedicated to Quality Learning
The Teaching and Learning team supports our teachers. This team comprises a group of core staff who work to enhance the quality of learning across the school.
The Director of Pedagogy and Staff Development, Mrs Hattie Barfield Moore, is responsible for ensuring that staff are supported and empowered to deliver high-quality lessons that enable students to make the best possible progress whilst enjoying the learning journey. She provides guidance on best practices whilst also championing the philosophy of Brentwood School – that we are a community of learners.
You can find a celebration of our Research and Development work in the pages of our journal, The Pioneer below and also view our research posters.
Here at Brentwood, we are ambitious and aim to integrate our pedagogy with research. As such, many of our staff are financially supported by the School to pursue further qualifications and our whole staff 3-18 R&D Practitioner Inquiry programme supports staff to be intellectually curious and develop their research-informed practice.
Head of Research and Development, Mrs Aisling Chaudhuri, is responsible for organising the staff Research and Development programme.
This programme seeks to engage all types of teacher learners through a series of discussion groups, research opportunities, as well as attendance at external subject-specific or topic-specific training days after which colleagues deliver what they have learned to others.
Leading by Example
We practise what we preach here at Brentwood: if we believe our students should appreciate the value of continuous learning, we need to show them that their teachers also do so.
One key strand of staff training is the effective use of iPads in Teaching and Learning. For our children growing up in the digital age, it is of utmost importance that as a school we help to develop their digital literacy beyond the confines of social media and gaming and help them to thrive in our ever-changing and unpredictable world.
Teachers are actively participating in their own learning and making positive changes to their practice. It focuses on embedding improvements.
Mobile Learning Project
Our Mobile 1:1 Digital Learning strategy in the Senior School ensures that each student has an iPad at their disposal, as an additional learning tool.
All students in the Senior School are provided with a personal iPad to enhance their educational experience as part of the new technology in education programme known as the Mobile Learning Project.
This programme ensures that all of our students are well prepared for the demands and opportunities of modern living within a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Learning Community
The Brentwood Learning Community aims to offer parents the opportunity to engage with a variety of topics relating to the education of their children. These include support sessions on how to help children with revision, learning difficulties and technology.
Our Learning Community events also offer parents the opportunity to further their knowledge through attending lectures provided by members of staff and external speakers on specialist academic and wellbeing topics.
These lectures provide parents with an insight into the commitment we make to give our students a holistic education.
If you would like to help further enhance this programme and suggest some sessions you would like to see run in the future, please complete our online form below to supply your feedback.
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