Teaching and Learning

Completing the SSAT Lead Practitioner (LP) accreditation has been a transformative stage in my professional journey, enabling me to refine my leadership practice and extend my impact beyond my own classroom and school.

At Mounts Bay Academy, we are always seeking professional development opportunities that are not only grounded in evidence but also practical, sustainable, and capable of driving meaningful classroom change.

There is an urgent need for the secondary, further education and higher education sectors to interact and collaborate more effectively to create a better understanding of student learning at these levels of study – helping to more effectively bridge the transition of students.

Being a Lead Practitioner is about more than strong classroom practice; it’s about using that expertise to improve teaching and learning at scale. Verity Merryweather reflects on her journey as a newly accredited LP.

Research shows it is essential for students with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) to be explicitly taught tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary, yet this is a strategy that all students benefit from: if we want our students to confidently speak like scientists, linguists, mathematicians, artists, musicians, historians, we must provide them with the vocabulary to do so.