The Library is also useful for new starter children who may join TGBS in the middle of a Term and would benefit from watching what their classmates have been doing in some key subjects over the couple of days before they join.

Recorded lessons provide an invaluable professional development tool, for staff to watch each other teach in order to share and compare best practice, and to see how different children respond to different teachers and their different teaching techniques.

Reviewing recorded lessons can also helps staff to identify children who may be struggling but who do not tell their teachers that they need help.

The Library also contains a number of additional lessons which have not already been taught. These lessons are particularly useful if a teacher is unexpectedly absent through illness. Typically these are consolidation or extension lessons, or lessons which challenge students’ learning in different ways to the norm; sometimes they are “revise and re-cap” lessons, or special lectures by guest speakers on topics of interest to various age groups.

The Lesson Library is there for exceptional circumstances, and is not to be seen as an alternative to attending classes. Access to recorded lessons is only given to enable lesson catch-up, or if a child is struggling with a concept covered in a specific lesson.