Professional Development

At Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy we place great value on developing our staff. We believe that effective CPD secures high standards of teaching and culture by ensuring that our practice is up to date and inspiring.

Our CPD model is focused around developing the following:

Teaching and Learning

  • General pedagogical knowledge - knowledge of how to teach effectively: this will focus on 100% engagement, explaining and modelling leading to practice, checking for understanding, responsive and adaptive teaching with feedback, and independent consolidation of learning
  • Subject content pedagogical knowledge – relating the general pedagogical knowledge to each subject to make this specific to subject areas
  • Subject content knowledge: knowledge of the subject being taught and how to teach a specific aspect of the subject content

Culture Curriculum

Weekly and termly CPD sessions are delivered on our culture curriculum.  This is to create as warm, friendly culture with a sense of rigour and urgency for learning and achievement.

Strong and consistent routines with the emphasis on an inclusive environment are delivered to make out culture front and centre of everything we do.

National Professional Qualification

We have several members of staff who are undertaking the prestigious DfE-funded National Professional Qualifications (NPQs):

Ms Essumang - National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)

Ms Johnson-Brown - National Professional Qualification for Leading Teaching (NPQLT)

Ms Whybourn - National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH)

The NPQs are one example of the CPD opportunities that we offer our staff at LHEA.

Are you an Early Career Teacher?

At Lynch Hill Enterprise Academy, we are committed to supporting and developing your skills as a teacher. We offer a comprehensive two-year induction programme working with our chosen provider, Ambition Institute.
You will receive a personalised programme of development and support that aims to welcome you to teaching and build your self-confidence. You will be assigned a subject mentor and have weekly mentor meetings as well as having the opportunity to observe highly effective teaching to strengthen your teaching practice.
Where possible, Early Careers Teachers have a three-week induction in July, which prepares them for September.