Peer coaching at St John Fisher Primary
School
2017 parent meeting
• Something new has been happening at St John Fisher
Primary school as part of the Achievement for All programme
( AFA) which we began as a school in September 2015
• Staff have worked with three families from each class to have
‘structured’ conversations. These are like parents evening but
last longer. They involve the children, parents and teachers as
part of the meeting. We try to meet three times a year on
strategies to help learning.
• We are continuing to hold meetings and
to use this as a tool to promote
better outcomes for our children
• Since September 2016 teachers at St John
Fisher have been using another strategy along
side structured conversations . It is called the
Peer Coaching strategy and we are using this
to inform our practice and improve learning
outcomes for our children .
• What is Peer coaching?
• Peer coaching seeks to develop people, helping them
to become ‘even better’ and more ‘consciously
competent’ in their roles.
• It is an approach which builds trust and confidence,
focussing on solutions and personal growth. It enables
improvement in performance to be generated
internally with the school and easily shared with others
• Why are we doing it at SJF?
• We are maximising the potential of a strong teaching team
at SJF to sustain improvement through building on personal
capacity
The role of the coach is to:
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Staff have worked in phases…….
Early years team
Key stage 1 team
Key stage 2 team
At St John Fisher we have pupil
progress reviews for every child each short term.
Sometimes children do not make the progress that we
would expect. Three such pupils have been chosen to
take part in the peer coaching approach to further
identify barriers to learning.
• Staff have looked at books and learning journeys
• Visited classrooms and observed
children
• Analysed School attendance
• Shared observations
• Asked questions to each other
help to unravel barriers to
learning
• What next …………………………
Discussions have lead to ……
How have structured conversations
helped ……..
• Parents: ‘closer links with school’ ‘more
confident to talk and be honest’
• Children: ‘I can ask for help’ ‘ People are
hearing what I say’
• Teachers: ‘It is helping to build a trusting
relationship with parents, parent meetings can
be too short to do this’
• How has peer coaching helped so far …….
• Teachers/coachees feel supported when
colleagues visit classes and are trusting each
other in an honest, open way
• Teachers are learning skills to further their own
professional development by supporting each
other in a very different role using questioning
techniques to help their peer to find solutions.
• The support visits into each other classes have
resulted in an informal exploration to support
colleagues
• What next?
• We would like to further our potential at SJF
through working with the teaching assistant
team in a similar way in order to continue to
build capacity to over come barriers to learning
for our children.
• Any questions?