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The school budgets annually for around six teachers to
have reading weeks (five days, not necessarily consecutive,
release for research for teaching) and four mini-sabbaticals
(longer periods of release for research and reflection on
a teacher's practice). This allows teachers to refresh their
subject knowledge, remain active learners themselves and
put scholarship at the heart of their work.
Releasing valuable teachers from the classroom can only
work if the school has a bank of equally good supply teachers
sympathetic to its ethos. To create such a bank, we work
on a principle of "systematic serendipity" - following up
interesting CVs, inviting potential teachers in to teach
a demonstration lesson and using recently retired colleagues
and (supervised) former pupils in their final year of university
or doing research.
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