A BURNLEY school is to permit its teachers to video their lessons in a bid to improve their performance.

Blessed Trinity RC College in Burnley has asked for parents to sign off on the idea before cameras are allowed into the classrooms.

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The school, which is based in Ormerod Road, has said that the project is being taken up in a drive to achieve an ‘outstanding’ grade from Ofsted.

It was rated as ‘good’ following it’s most recent inspection by the education watchdog in June 2014. The National Union of Teachers has said that it has ‘no problem’ with the recording as long as the teachers were all happy with the idea.

In a letter to parents, a spokesman for the school said: “As part of our professional development for teachers at Blessed Trinity, we will be using a video-based system called IRIS to develop our teaching practice.

“The use of this system has been authorised by governors as part of our drive to move the school to outstanding. IRIS allows teachers to record, reflect on and anaylse their own practice within the classroom.

“The cameras will record the teaching and learning practices during the lesson so the teacher can reflect on their lesson to improve learning outcomes for pupils.

“The video is private and will not be shared with any other teacher without permission. We shall be using the system in line with the ‘Video Recording for Staff Development Policy 2015-2016’, which can be found on the school’s website.”

Simon Jones, from the NUT in East Lancashire, said: “We do not have a problem with the recording as long as the teachers actually want it and think that it is a valuable tool to aid in their development.”

“There would be a problem is any school decided to enforce this without the full support of the teaching staff. There will not be a safe guarding issue as these teachers have already been cleared and these videos are not for a wide audience and just for their work.”