How We Teach at Redbridge Community School
At Redbridge Community School, we have one shared approach to teaching and learning: iTeach 5.
iTeach 5 gives every teacher a simple, consistent framework built around five core strategies -Check it, Shape it, Show it, Stretch it and Say it. These strategies are visible in every lesson, across every subject, for every pupil. Whether a student is in an English lesson or a Science practical, a Year 7 introduction or a Year 11 revision session, they will encounter the same structure, the same expectations and the same language from their teacher.
We believe that consistency is one of the greatest gifts a school can give its pupils. When pupils know what is coming, when they trust that their teacher will model clearly, scaffold carefully and push them to do better than their first attempt, they can focus entirely on learning. iTeach 5 creates that predictability. It removes the guesswork for pupils and gives teachers a shared professional foundation to build from.
Our framework is directly aligned to the Education Endowment Foundation’s 5-a-Day – the strongest available evidence about the teaching strategies that make the biggest difference to pupil outcomes. Each of our five strategies maps directly to an EEF recommendation, which means that when our teachers use iTeach 5, they are not following a school policy but drawing on decades of classroom research, applied to the Redbridge context.
iTeach 5 is not a checklist to be ticked off. It is a common language, a set of shared habits and shared scripts that mean every pupil at Redbridge is taught well, every day.
