Schools Partnership Programme
Schools Partnership Programme
Together we are taking part in a nationwide research trial of over 500 schools funded through the EEF (Education Endowment Foundation) to see if a partnership based approach to school improvement , organised through the Schools Partnership Programme, builds the capacity and capability across schools for self-sustaining school improvement.
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We have joined with the following local schools to form a partnership:
- Padnell Junior School
- Purbrook Junior School
- Clanfield Junior School
- St Albans Primary
- Denmead Junior School
This partnership was formed in March 2018 and over the course of the programme will:
- review in depth an area of each other’s school and practice (twice);
- undertake bespoke training, following each review (delivered by the ‘Improvement Champions’ within the partnership)
- Undertake Impact and Support Workshop training organised by SPP
- meet regularly to review this ongoing process
- Undergo an evaluation process with a third party (deployed by EEF to measure the outcomes of the programme)
We formulated the following shared goals under the SPP headings for the first year of the programme:
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Collaborative school improvement |
Culture of Shared responsibility |
Open and Transparent systems and processes |
Pupil outcomes |
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A vested interest in each other’s results |
Trust in the partnership |
Strengths and skills database/spreadsheet |
Individual schools have set their own pupil outcomes around the following areas: Less need to ‘gap’ fill in upper schools Progress of disadvantaged children Increased aspirations for all children Improved behaviours for learning |
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Peer Review set up and beginning to make a difference |
Growth mindsets shared |
Individual school improvement priorities shared and an awareness of these |
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Increase in trust between the schools |
Being honest with each other |
Time set aside for the partnership to join together as well as whole school staff |
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Something for all teachers to engage in with the cluster |
Take responsibility |
To look at a possible shared model for performance management |
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Understand that this is different from an Ofsted or Hampshire LLRP review for example |
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