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Mr. Williams leads professional learning at Johnston C.P. School, ensuring that all staff are provided with high quality professional development. As well as working as part of the National Network for Excellence in Mathematics, Mr. Williams holds a Masters in Educational Research.
Asymmetric Fridays
Since September 2019, Johnston C.P. School has run an asymmetric timetable to create time for professional learning for staff. Pupils finish school at 12:00 on Fridays and staff spend the afternoon developing their professional knowledge. We know that the quality of teaching has the biggest impact on pupil progress and, therefore, we believe that the opportunities that we are able to offer as part of our timetable are very important.
Since we began implementing this timetable, staff have benefited in numerous ways:
- Meeting with teachers at other school and sharing resources and ideas.
- Engaging with training linked to mathematics and numeracy.
- Developing RADY Projects.
- Developing strategies for reading.
- Evaluating and improving our curriculum.
- Engaging with Talk for Writing activities.
- Undertaking Welsh lessons.
- Developing strategies for teaching and learning.
