TEACHING AND LEARNING

Learning is our passion at St Alban’s, as illustrated by our latest ESTYN inspection report and our exceptional GCSE results.

Our students are encouraged and empowered to take ownership of their own learning through the concepts inherent in:

• The St Alban’s Pupil Profile
• Four Purposes of the New Curriculum
• 3 Rs: Resilience, Responsibility and Respect
• 3 Cs: Collaboration, Creativity, Curiosity
• Our school motto: Be the Best You Can Be

Study and Learning are facilitated by the professional activities of Teaching and Assessment. These are founded on and influenced by:

• Welsh Government policy
• Current educational research (David Didau, Tom Sherrington, Lyn Sharratt, Doug Lemov etc.)
• In-house action research and discussion to discover ‘tweaks’ we can apply to continue to improve our teaching practice.
• A robust structure of activities outlined by the school’s Monitoring, Evaluating and Reviewing cycle which enables teachers to continually reflect on and improve our work.

It is a privilege to teach at St Alban’s and colleagues here derive a great deal of satisfaction from the success of our young people. We support and challenge our students as suits their needs, combining high expectations with encouragement, praise and belief.

We believe that it is vital to teach pupils to be curious, to question the world in which they live and to think critically. We strive to teach our pupils to become:

Ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives.