Best Practice

Creating a new teaching team

School leader Natasha Boyce discusses how a focus on writing skills and active learning is helping to transform her school’s humanities department and create an effective teaching team

I joined Samworth Enterprise Academy as part of Future Leaders, a leadership development programme, in August 2013, taking up a role as assistant principal with a focus on building a team in the humanities department.

Samworth is an all-through academy with students aged three to 16. We are a relatively new academy, founded in 2007, and our students tend to be from families with several generations of social disengagement. RAISE Online data from 2013 put the school in the highest percentile for deprivation, 64 per cent of students are eligible for free school meals, and we have twice the national average with SEN.

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