Continuous Professional Development

Staff Development

Impactful staff development is a key part of our culture at Bacon’s and we’re immensely proud of how this has led to strong academic outcomes for our students and also enabled their personal growth. Ultimately, it has helped us move strongly towards our mission statement:

‘Bacon’s College ensures that every student is well educated, cared for and exhorted to achieve the academic and personal excellence that will lead to university or skilled work and to a fulfilled life’

All staff receive Performance Development Reviews (PDRs) every year, with mid-year reviews around February. Some of the objectives we agree with staff are closely linked to whole-school prorities but there are also some that are bespoke each indvidual member of our staff. This ensures that we are all moving together in the same direction but also allows staff to also receive the right support to develop them further. All of this ensures our staff are best equipped to give our students the education they deserve.

There is a strong drive amongst the staff here to continually improve, and feedback from staff surveys confirmed that staff at the school really do value to CPD offer we have here at Bacon’s. We’ve evaluated what worked previously and now have a comprehensive CPD programme that develops staff at all levels, which is based upon evidence that is relevant to the context of our school.

Our CPD menu below summarises the CPD on offer to our staff: