CPD - Continued Professional Development

Continuing Professional Development

We are committed to ensuring that all staff have access to an excellent standard of training and professional development. We know that the heart of achieving ‘Personal Excellence’ for our students is achieving ‘Personal Excellence’ for our staff.  CPD may be whole staff, department, individual, online or in person.    For all our staff we have a ‘’centralised strand which is a core offer of essential training alongside an ‘individualised strand’ which is bespoke dependent on role and stage of career.

Accessing Professional Development Opportunities

Information on any external courses and programmes provided by professional organisations nationally and locally such as NPQ qualifications or those offered by the Chartered College, are published as they become available.  The school also offers in-house training which focuses on whole school development priorities such as literacy and improving outcomes for disadvantaged students and these are delivered by outstanding teachers from within the staff body. Likewise, in-house and external leadership programmes are on offer for those hoping to progress on a leadership route. There will also be occasions on which staff are directed to take up training opportunities because they are related to specific areas for development for a subject area or for the school. In essence, training is available to address the development needs of all staff, to encompass teachers, leaders, support staff, learning support professionals, site staff and admin personnel.    We have invested in StepLab which is a programme allowing us to work with teaching staff to identify areas of next steps in the development of teaching and an individualised online programme of CPD.

WCS Teaching Staff Development Programme

WCS Support Staff Development Programme

Guest Speakers

We place emphasis on providing quality CPD for all our staff. In the past 2 years we have run top quality training from providers such as Bill Rogers - the internationally renowned behaviour expert whereby we hosted the event for our staff and several other invited school representatives.  Sonia Gill whose programs focus on developing leadership skills, fostering effective communication, and building high-performing teams within schools.  Jane Branson, with over 30 years in the field she provided us with bespoke training focusing on reading, writing, and oracy.  We have also welcomed many other experts from a range of partners including ELSEAT, the Mental Health and Wellbeing team from East Sussex to name but a few to provide our staff with top quality CPD.