Our Approach to Teaching and Learning
Teaching and Learning Vision
Teaching and Learning is at the heart of FPS and our input is highly impactful, providing a climate for limitless learning. Our lessons are stimulating and teaching styles are assured in responding to the individual needs of our students. We are driven by our core purpose to nurture the talents of every child in our school and we are resolute in our commitment to ensuring that every child is a high performing learner. Our teaching and learning maintains a rigorous and continuous drive to be inclusive, accelerate learning and develop personalised learning pathways. As such, we are committed to ensuring our practices are research-informed and developed through effective professional learning.
In lessons, we strive to prioritise oracy and literacy, ensuring equity of access to the curriculum for all children. We work with families to communicate the characteristics of successful learning through the VAAs and ACPs of HPL. Our assessment systems ensure a continuum of learning and enable us to confidently respond with innovative solutions. Our mastery curriculum is underpinned by a mastery mentality and we have high ambition for all children. Every minute of learning time that your child has with us is planned for, to ensure that their learning is maximised and personalised to them.
Our Teaching and Learning Policy
Advanced Cognitive Performance Characteristics ACPs Progression Chart
Values Attitudes and Attributes of High Performers
More To Explore
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British Curriculum Overview
Offering a world-class education founded on an elaborated National Curriculum for England (NCfE).
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Academic Ethos
FirstPoint School is an exceptional school where we combine British academics and heritage.
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Career Advice and Higher Education Guidance
As a student at FirstPoint, you have access to personalised guidance from our career and higher education advisor and support from the GEMS career network.
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Internships
Students in Year 12 have the opportunity to pursue an internship one day a week through the year.
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English as a Second Language
Across the school, over 250 learners access our whole-school literacy intervention programme.
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Modern Foreign Languages
The Modern Languages department is a one the most successful departments at FirstPoint with our students achieving amazing results for GCSE and A-Levels.
