Great practice shout out for Kirtee Patel in Orchard Mead Academy - Science from MrsJMorgan111 🤩 Excellent use of cold calling to sample a range of responses and ensure that all students are engaged in thinking. Great scaffolding/prompting to support those with partially correct answers. 👍🏼

In our PL session Orchard Mead Academy, staff were developing their repertoire of questioning techniques so that we are as well equipped as we can be to check for understanding skilfully. Thanks to Tom Sherrington oliver caviglioli Walkthrus Steplab for the great resources that we drew from!

Best practice shout out to Michelle Austin in Music & Drama at Orchard Mead Academy from MrsJMorgan111 🤩 Outstanding cold calling used to engage students in thinking about prior knowledge. Deliberate pauses built in and questions posed in a clear, engaging manner multiple times. Fantastic!🎈🙌

Today's tiny teaching tip (9): Pretend that everything you teach is inherently fascinating, regardless of your real opinion or the opinions you suspect the class might have. Part of planning well is working out what makes something - anything - potentially interesting.

a #GreatPractice #shoutout to Fatima Qaasim in Orchard Mead Academy - Science today.Super use of effective questioning employing the #Walkthrus technique of 'Say It Again Better' to encourage pupils to use subject specific, expert vocabulary to check their understanding. Great to see!#weareOMA

Great practice shout out to Rita Pancholi in Computing Orchard Mead Academy from MrsJMorgan111 🏆 Explanations were broken down into small chunks, delivered at an appropriate speed with tone of voice used effectively to stress key ideas. Cold calling used very skillfully to #CFU 😀😀

Today Orchard Mead Academy we are pushing our students to be even #FASTerLearners 🏁 Last term, we saw their resilience grow as they answers questions in lessons more. So, now we are teaching them how to #AnswerQuestionsWell by focusing on the importance of taking turns+listening. 🤫👂

For those that asked for the pdf version of the Rosenshine principles aligned with Walkthrus, please use the link below: drive.google.com/file/d/1tiT_41…

Great practice shout for Fatime Krasniqi in Orchard Mead Academy - Maths from MrsJMorgan111 💪 High expectations for student behaviour. Great use of process questions to get students to articulate their thinking. Opting out minimised by returning to students who don’t know later on to CFU 🤗

Great practice shout out to Paris Smith in Orchard Mead Academy - English from MrsJMorgan111 🥳 Fantastic use of probing questions to encourage students to dig deeper and expand their answers. Great use of humour to create a supportive learning environment rooted in strong relationships. 😀

Today, our students Orchard Mead Academy will continue to learn how to #AnswerQuestionsWell in their final #FAST session this term 🗣📣 The focus of the session is to train students to answer in full sentences using standard English to show how articulate and knowledgeable they are. 👩🏽‍🎓

A #GreatPractice shoutout to Mr Morrison in Orchard Mead Academy - Humanities from @McCluskyRachel excellent well embedded #coldcalling and use of #FAST which facilitated greater pupil participation and understanding. #weareOMA #togetherwemakeapositivedifference

Great practice shout out to Rupa Pithwa Orchard Mead Academy - English from MrsJMorgan111 🎈🏆 Outstanding cold calling employed throughout the lesson to check understanding of a range of students. As a result, students were engaged, thinking hard and sharing insightful ideas on a poem. 😀

Some super collaboration and strategising yesterday in our first @orchardmead T&L PL session, learning how to move pupils from dependence to independence via a range of strategies from #walkthrus. Together we make a positive difference, #teamOMA.

Another #greatpractice shoutout for Mrs Olf, from rachel mcclusky 💙 whose humour and gentle repetition of FAST ensured effective behavior for learning and fostered great relationships. #weareOMA

Fantastic to see our team engaging in some really useful deliberate practice and exploring how to model and narrate metacognitive thinking to support our pupils' ability to work independently. #PLMonday #deliberatepractice #weareOMA #togetherwemakeapositivedifference

Massive #greatpractice shoutout to Mr Hoque in OMA Science Dept for a really clear and effective progression through 'I do' to 'We do' where #questioning was used effectively to support understanding of a tricky topic. Well done! #WeAreOMA #togetherwemakeapositivedifference

Another #greatpractice shoutout to Mrs Glover in OMA Science Dept for really carefully crafted behaviour management strategies - you counted down for silence and narrated the expectations at each stage, accompanied by changes in tone and volume. #WeAreOMA

Great to see #effectiveassessment in action in Mrs Brooks' drama lesson at Music & Drama at Orchard Mead Academy today. Pupils were engaged in improving their pieces using peer feedback prior to their assessment performances next week. Lovely purposeful atmosphere and expert language in action.