When I arrived as faculty leader for science and technology at Ormiston Sandwell Community Academy, I was tasked to increase the science department’s cohort of GCSE students by 30 per cent and increase their attainment from 50 to 93 per cent.
I began to implement strategies and systems with a clear focus on raising the teaching and learning standards while maintaining consistency across the team. I have outlined below some of the strategies which I implemented, none of which I would say are original – success was down to a relentless focus on the basics along with a real belief that the staff and pupils could achieve the ambitious goals we set out.
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