Author Archives: classteaching

Over the last 2 years at Durrington, we have been taking a disciplined inquiry approach to teach appraisal. This approach has stemmed from the work of John Tomsett, and is intended to support teachers to think deeply about and improve … Continue reading →

Natasha Corrigan is currently in Shanghai taking part in the NCETM Teacher Exchange. She has travelled along with a group of other primary and secondary maths teachers to observe teaching in a range of Shanghai schools. Here are her thoughts … Continue reading →

Chris Runeckles explored ‘Curriculum and Sequencing’ in a recent blog, which can be found here – https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/curriculum-and-sequencing/ Both this and Chris’ blog are designed to explain our newly created graphic (shown below) which exemplifies and clarifies what we consider to … Continue reading →

This week Michael Chiles has produced an excellent ‘A walk thru…’ series of documents for each of the six pedagogical principles featured in ‘Making Every Lesson Count‘.  Michael explains his thinking behind these documents here: “Since Shaun and Andy’s release … Continue reading →

In last week’s Class Teaching blog we explained about the changes we have made to the start of the day here at Durrington High School. In essence, students now begin learning as soon as the first school bell rings. This … Continue reading →

This year at Durrington we have made some major changes to how our students start their school day. Gone are the ‘tutor times’ of old and in their place every student now engages with ‘Period 1’ – a structured programme … Continue reading →