Teaching and Learning

The high standards that we expect from students at Warden Park are reflected in the excellence that our teaching staff strive for every lesson. Our pedagogical approach is research based and has been developed by our teaching and learning working party. It is based around our 6 characteristics of excellent lessons that you can see in the diagram.

These characteristics also underpin the professional learning programme that all of our teachers are engaged with. Through this they work together in cross subject professional learning communities to develop strategies that will improve our students’ learning experience. These communities allow staff to explore the very latest thinking in educational research in the context of what works best for the students in our care. All teaching staff are involved in visiting colleagues’ lessons as a part of identifying what the very best teaching looks like in practice.

The impact of our approach can be seen in the outstanding results achieved by our students in their GCSE exams during the last three years.