Coaching and mentoring has helped build an in-house collegiate culture of CPD at Hayes Park Primary. Head Neil Suggett brought his executive-coaching experience with him on return to teaching; we meet the CPD and coaching co-ordinators as they collaborate over plans for Training Day, then see what team coaching actually looks like in action as a coach helps the Year 2 team to bash out a way forward for the low-to-middle writers in their classes. Vivienne Porritt of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning explains the value of an across-the-board CPD strategy involving everyone, not just the QTs, and the strand manager for TAs explains their increasing professionalisation. This is borne out when we see specialist teaching assistants teaching their colleagues some SEN interventions.

Video Series: CPD Leaders in Primary Schools
Release Date 2008