Chris Wust​​​​​

More recently I created and delivered an enterprise challenge for our Primary liaison schools (Y5/6). This heightened our profile in the local community and schools and helped to achieve a full intake at Year 7.

The King’s school was invited to take part in the National Enterprise Challenge and present to Lord Sugar in London. I was awarded Most Enterprising Teacher of the Year which was presented by Lord Sugar in 2013.

Since then our enterprise challenge success has grown.  In 2014 a team of Year 10’s won ‘The Pitch’ - a two day residential Enterprise Challenge. A team of year 12’s won the Staffordshire Enterprise challenge and finally a team of year 13’s won the Subway challenge, receiving an IPad each and a share of £1000. They also have their sub available in store from 1st February this year.

I have organised and attended a number of residential and day excursions for Year 10, 11 and Post 16 pupils. I have organised day trips to London for Business Studies and a number of revision weekends for Year 11 pupils studying business. I have organised a Post 16 four-day residential to Barcelona, following the success of my previous visit to Brussels. Residential excursions are of great benefit to students, socially and educationally and it is also recognised by OFSTED as outstanding practice.

In my current role as curriculum team leader of Business Studies, I take a pivotal role in planning and implementing the future development and success of The King’s CofE School.  I strive to develop a learning culture within the business area. I continually self-review through monitoring, lesson observations and verifying coursework.  I share good practice with colleagues and liaise with students for feedback to monitor areas for improvement.

As a proven team leader, I stimulate and inspire staff to perform to the best of their ability by promoting high quality teaching and learning. On appointment to the position of leader for Business Studies there were a number of issues I felt needed to change within the department particularly, monitoring, assessment and the curriculum to enhance the abilities of all pupils, linked in with school priorities. This has led to the Business Studies department being recognised as an excellent practitioner whose results at Key stage 4 and Post 16 were in the excellent percentile of Alps data. This was achieved by introducing a proactive approach using performance and behaviour data to identify trends in student behaviour. From monitoring data I then implemented systems for improving attainment within ‘A’ level and the vocational BTEC courses which has been recognised by BTEC in their recent risk assessment.

I have succefully completed HAYS Online Safeguarding and Child Protection courses and an EPICT course which is an Esafety Certificate which is specifically mentioned by OFSTED as a feature of Good and Outstanding Practice (Inspecting E-Safety - Briefing for Inspectors) Sep 2012.

As a teacher consistently judged as outstanding, I feel that I can not only inspire pupils, but also motivate my peers.  To inspire learners, I believe you need to be innovative and try new approaches and have the flexibility to change with new ideas.