Carlisle's Trinity School adapts to ensure lessons go on through Covid-19

Schools have had to rapidly find ways of providing lessons for their pupils despite the ongoing battle with Covid-19.

With social distancing, outbreaks and adaptation to technology, this year has been like no other and, for Trinity School, the desire to keep improving despite adversity is clear.

The school is committed to continuous development and many teachers have had to adapt the way that they teach and learn new skills during lockdown.

Teachers are using an ever-expanding range of ways to reach students.

The school's sixth form has used Microsoft Teams to teach hybrid lessons for both pupils in the room and those at home self-isolating. They have even seen teachers having to self-isolate and, as a result, teaching pupils from home virtually, with their students taking part in their classroom as usual.

Preparations for improving beyond Covid-19 are also in full swing as Judith Clare, PA to the headteacher at Trinity, confirmed teachers have been working with a new training programme.

She said: “We have been very fortunate at Trinity School to work with Carmel Bones and the OSIRIS training programme.

"A cohort of 10 teachers started the programme last year and we were delighted to hold a presentation evening in school last week to celebrate their completion of the course.

"Teachers at the event spoke of the value of the collaborative approach of the course and how much they have learned from each other.

"The programme works through video analysis of lessons and self-reflection. The longitudinal nature of it has been proven to have the biggest impact, too.”

Although the classrooms at Trinity may seem a little different now from last year, Mrs Clare said they had been impressed by the way that students had coped during a period they could not have seen coming.

“We have all have had to be ever-adaptable and teachers have risen to the teaching and learning opportunities superbly," she said.