Staff Skills, Knowledge, Values and Deployment

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How well does professional learning impact positively on outcomes for children and in what ways?

How do we build on individual skills and interests which lead to improvements for children?

 

Leadership of continuous improvement p15 – Pedagogical leadership

Senior leaders are visible and provide strong strategic guidance and direction. They support all staff to provide high-quality learning and teaching to secure children’s progress. Senior leaders promote and support innovation, creativity and professional enquiry. They enable staff to be highly effective leaders of learning.

 

Leadership of continuous improvement p16 – Leadership and professional learning

Through highly effective leadership at all levels, we consistently achieve high standards. We motivate, support, and inspire others to improve their pedagogy and practice continually. Across our team, there is a strong ethos of valuing professional learning, development and collaborative working to build capacity and sustain highly effective practice.

We engage in a broad range of professional learning that enables us to remain knowledgeable, skilled and up to date in our practice. We use professional learning and development opportunities very well to influence and support pedagogy, practice and improvement priorities to improve outcomes for all children, with a strong focus on equity and inclusion.

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How well do we support one another, share practice and take responsibility for leading improvements?

In what ways do we use robust self-evaluation to make decisions about professional learning and improvement?

 

Safeguarding and child protection p64 – Culture of Safety and Wellbeing

Our ethos sensitively and effectively promotes children’s rights and equality. This is supported by strong leadership that empowers all staff to continuously improve safeguarding and child protection practice across the setting. We understand our shared responsibility in ensuring that babies and children live safely and are supported to thrive.

Our leaders effectively support all staff to ensure we have a deep understanding of our shared responsibilities. We ensure any volunteers or covering staff are fully aware of our arrangements for safeguarding and child protection. We have a culture of accountability and continuous learning, driven by robust reflective practice.

 

Safeguarding and child protection p65 – Legislation, policy and guidance in practice

Our robust approach to self-evaluation fully informs our arrangements for recognising, responding to, recording and reporting concerns about children’s wellbeing or safety. We use legislation, national guidance and policies to support our self-evaluation. We proactively take account of new information, policy developments and emerging issues to improve our practice.

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How well do our self-evaluation and quality assurance processes support improvements in safeguarding? To what extent do they strengthen areas such as staff and volunteer recruitment, personal planning and practice in place to keep children safe?

To what extent does regular, high-quality, professional learning improve our practice?

What changes have we made as a result of professional learning?   How do we know practice changes have had a positive impact for children and/or staff?