Core Provision for School Improvement
Our school improvement offer aims to:
- improve outcomes and experiences of students
- provide additional support and challenge to schools
- tailor support to the needs of schools
- ensure efficient and effective use of physical, financial and human resources
- provide timely and relevant information to the Trust Board, Governors and other relevant stakeholders
Core Provision for School Improvement
All schools receive our core improvement support. This includes fortnightly meetings with the Executive team and other trust heads to discuss ongoing matters, termly Innovation Days where heads work together to share and develop good practice to take back to schools, termly meetings for school lead teams (such as Teaching and Learning, Data and DSL teams), termly School Strategy meetings at which the head and the Executive dig down into a school’s performance, highlight areas for celebration and development and identify any specific support requirements, and finally an annual SLT conference bringing senior leaders across the trust together in order to focus on the year’s priorities.
In addition, a whole Trust Staff Conference takes place every year to allow teams to work together across the trust, including non-teaching staff, and SET staff are encouraged to attend CPD opportunities in each other’s schools where that is relevant.
More informal educational support is generally brokered centrally between the trust heads and the Executive in their calendared fortnightly meetings but can obviously be provided more quickly if needed. A ‘Directory of Expertise’ is held on the trust central management drive listing all those staff across the trust who have particular skills or expertise, which heads and senior teams can access at any time.
