It is usual practice for schools to take one or two teacher-only days per year to enable professional learning together. The school closes for a teacher-only day, but has to stay open for an extra day at the end of the year. To date we have not had any teacher-only days at Amesbury School.
However, next year, the staff have an opportunity to attend an international congress in Brisbane with arguably the biggest and best line up of educational speakers in the world including Sir Ken Robinson of Ted Talk Changing Paradigms fame and Prof Sugata Mitra of the Hole in the Wall experiment in India.
The two teacher only days will follow on from Queen's Birthday weekend making it a five day weekend. We are giving you advanced warning of this so that you have plenty of time to make any arrangements necessary. We feel confident that Kelly Club will be able to provide care for the two days if needed.
With these teacher-only days, school will now close 17th December, which is still earlier than we will finish this year.
If you have any queries about this, please do not hesitate to speak to Lesley.
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