Curriculum & Teaching Review
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ExploreLearning Walks & Teaching Drop-Ins
You can’t improve teaching you can’t see. Learning walks and drop-ins give a live picture of what’s happening in classrooms across your school, day to day. Done developmentally rather than as a grading exercise, they build an honest view of teaching and where it can be stronger. We carry them out independently and constructively.
What Is Learning Walks & Teaching Drop-Ins?
It’s a series of short, focused visits to lessons across your school, building a picture of teaching and learning as it really happens. We look for agreed themes, talk to pupils where it helps, and triangulate what we see with work and plans. We don’t grade individual lessons; we look for patterns.
It gives you a live, honest view of teaching across the school, free from internal bias, with clear themes to build on rather than judgements on individuals.
Who Is It For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. Headteachers, senior leaders, and subject leaders use it to see teaching across the school and identify shared strengths and priorities.
Many schools ask for it to evaluate a teaching focus, prepare for inspection, or get an honest, outside view of classroom practice.
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What Does It Cover?
We shape the work around your priorities. You can have a broad review or a tight focus. Our most common areas include:
- A live picture of teaching across the school
- Consistency of practice between classrooms
- Agreed teaching and learning themes
- How pupils are engaging and learning
- The learning environment and climate
- How teaching lands for different pupil groups
- Patterns and shared priorities, not individual grades
- How what we see triangulates with work and voice
How This Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
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See teaching as it really is
We give you an honest, live view of classroom practice across the school, not a rehearsed one.
2
Find shared themes
We look for patterns, so you can focus development where it will have the biggest impact.
3
Check consistency
We see how practice varies between classrooms, so you can close gaps and share strengths.
4
Develop without grading
We look developmentally, so staff engage with improvement rather than fearing judgement.
5
Prepare for inspection
We give leaders a realistic view of what inspectors would see, and time to act.
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Model good practice
We can help your leaders learn to carry out learning walks well themselves.
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Support every group
We look at how teaching lands for all pupils, so no group is being underserved.
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How It Works
- 1We agree the themes and focus for the visits with you.
- 2We carry out short, focused visits across a range of classes.
- 3We look for the agreed themes and talk to pupils where it helps.
- 4We triangulate what we see with work and curriculum plans.
- 5We look for patterns across the school, not individual judgements.
- 6We produce a clear report with themes and practical next steps.
What You Get at the End
You receive a clear, practical written report. It includes:
- A live picture of teaching across the school
- Shared strengths and priorities for development
- How consistent practice is between classrooms
- Practical next steps you can act on straight away
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Key Features of Our Service
Developmental, not judgemental
We look for patterns and themes, never grade individual lessons.
Triangulated
We combine what we see with work and pupil voice.
Flexible focus
Whole-school, a phase, or a subject. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know how to see teaching honestly and feed back constructively, so practice improves rather than staff feeling judged. Our learning walks give you a real view of teaching, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and shape the right approach for your school.
- We agree dates and focus that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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