Restoring staff morale and demonstrating what outstanding teaching and learning look like were priorities for Andrea Williams when she arrived at Abingdon Primary School in Middlesbrough as headteacher. The school had been placed into special measures by Ofsted and needed to make improvements.
She set up a series of CPD programmes geared towards the areas that Ofsted said needed action, beginning with one entitled “Developing Expertise 2013/14”, to enable staff to share good practice and contribute to discussions about strategies for good pedagogy in literacy and numeracy.
Most of the staff were already effective practitioners, but the inspectors’ judgement had left confidence low.
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