The appraiser and the school teacher must seek to agree at a meeting held under regulation 26(1) on the procedures for monitoring the school teacher’s performance against the objectives agreed under regulation 26(1) or where objectives have not been agreed the objectives set out in writing under regulation 26(5).

If procedures are not agreed under paragraph (1), the appraiser must set out in writing such procedures for monitoring the school teacher’s performance as the appraiser considers appropriate.

The procedures agreed under paragraph (1) or where procedures have not been agreed the procedures set out in writing under paragraph (2) must include a requirement for the appraiser in appraising a school teacher to observe the school teacher teaching on at least one occasion during the appraisal cycle.

Subject to paragraph (5), an appraiser may not obtain from any other person information, whether written or oral, relevant to the school teacher’s performance unless the school teacher consents or the information is obtained in accordance with the procedures agreed under paragraph (1) or where procedures have not been agreed the procedures set out in writing under paragraph (2).

Paragraph (4) does not apply to any information which an appraiser is entitled to receive under any other provision of these Regulations.