Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademy@ElkieTuesday Excellent pleased to hear it 👍 well deserved!4 hours ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyRT @DaveLoweMusic: Many congratulations to these two awesome young people from @ValeYorkAcademy - they come to @manorceacademy to study GCS…4 hours ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyGreat session today learning Parkour at @Barlby_High with @ParkourUK Mr Rampling is now skilled up to show rest of the department & lots of students will be soon having a half term of Parkour this year!! A really difficult and conditioned sport that we are keen to teach at Vale! https://t.co/HZT3cTYDQV7 hours ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyAnd as a little treat to say well done tomorrow break time 👍 Halloween doughnuts from Mr Rampling https://t.co/UDMn73ULjC2 days ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyHere are the year 7 lads - excited they won or what!! This is passion to win and they were very proud of each other!! Great night for Voy PE! 👍 https://t.co/uJtOJAmZ962 days ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademy4-1 win for our year 7 football team this evening! The students played so well against Huntington! What a 8 weeks - settling in to a new school seems so long ago!! Well done fellas - very proud! https://t.co/o3H4kVVniQ2 days ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademy@Victoriakowalc7 @valeofyorkcomco Fully deserved 😁 they were awesome tonight!! Very proud of the lads 👍2 days ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyRT @Victoriakowalc7: A brilliant football match to watch. Huge credit to the full yr7 team you guys are awesome & fantastic role models rep…2 days ago

Vale of York Academy @ValeYorkAcademyWe've added the Year 8 Batman piece as an audio file to the website - enjoy! (Scroll to the bottom of the Key Stage 3 section to find it.) https://t.co/Xz9CBPYLZT3 days ago

Staff training+CPD

CPD is the cornerstone to school improvement, only through reflective practice, collaboration, training and taking risks does any individual get to improve their day to day practice and thus the out comes for learners.

At Vale of York Academy CPD takes many forms; Training Days, Meeting time, Twilight sessions, weekly CPD programmes, Show ‘n’ Share in addition to individual packages of support and training accessed by many staff through partnership with the Ebor teaching Alliance and through the Pathfinder teaching school. The details below which are not exhaustive give a flavour of what is on offer in our school to support our colleagues.

Date	Event	Focus/Activity
Mon 05/09/16	Training day 1	Whole School Strategic & Operational sessions
Tues 06/09/16	Training day 2	Key messages, team meetings & preparation time for day 1
Mon 03/10/16	Open evening	All staff meeting 1.30pm main hall: standards & expectations for Open evening - Key consistent messages – FAQs. Time to prepare department areas.
Thurs 17/11/16	Twilight 1	Key messages & updates safeguarding & pastoral training themed CPD (Literacy update)
Thurs 26/01/17	Twilight 2	Linked to Whole School SDP priorities.
Fri 07/04/17	Training day 3	Shared training day across the Hope Learning Trust
Thurs 27/04/17	Twilight 3	Curriculum team development time for 2017/18
Wed 05/07/17	Twilight 4	Planning & strategic development time for 2017/18
Mon 24/07/17	Reclaimed on 3/1	as a teaching day
Tues 25/07/17	Twilighted (1&2)
Wed 26/07/17	Twilighted (3&4)

27-Sep	*	Staff meeting*
08-Nov	*	Directed development time*
06-Dec	*	Staff meeting*
13-Dec	*	Directed development time*
25-Apr	*	Directed development time*
23-May	*	Directed development time*
06-Jun	*	Staff meeting*
04-Jul	*	Directed development time*
	*	CPD opportunities marked with an asterix (*) fall with directed time and hence attendance at all sessions is compulsory. Ensure that other events or commitments do not clash with these dates. Part-time staff will be expected to attend these sessions. Any issues consult with the Vice Principal Performance.