At High Hazels Academy, we provide our pupils with a curriculum that is ambitious for all learners and developed by enthusiastic and creative teachers. Our curriculum celebrates diversity and supports the development of personal skills, helping children to understand themselves, their place in the world and the valuable contribution they have the potential to make. Our teaching is driven by research-proven practices that ensure quality first teaching, which is founded on high-quality modelling and precise feedback. The pupils learn through being immersed in experiences, language and knowledge as we provide them with a broad and balanced Education with Character.

We know that the nature and quality of classroom practice is the single most important school factor in determining pupil’s achievement, which lies directly within our control as professionals.  Therefore, we have implemented an Instructional Coaching cycle across school, this form of professional development focuses on addressing and improving aspects of teaching practice in small, revisited stages. Practices are revisited and become embedded into teaching practice as well as wider school culture. We have created a teaching and learning handbook which includes agreed strategies which allow staff to have a deeper understanding of the agreed techniques, building a shared school-wide vocabulary whilst ultimately improving the quality of conversations and teaching practice.