School Improvement
As a Teaching School Hub we have a responsibility to support school improvement through School to School Support. This includes the DfE School Improvement Offer (now suspended due to Covid), Stabilisation Programmes (suspended), Pupil Premium Reviews and general school improvement support.
Covid and Beyond Support Offer
The ‘offer’ outlined in this document highlights the specific activities that TSSW are running as a direct response to Covid-19 and the impact of the pandemic on education. Working with our strategic partners, we have put together a package that will support schools across a range of areas covering:
- EdTech - Blended Learning Environments
- Supporting Pupils' Mental Wellbeing
- Supporting Disadvantaged Pupils
- Supporting Early Career Teachers
- It is offered at no fee or cost to enable as many schools as possible to have access. To achieve this, we have used our central funding and drawn on sources of funding from partners wherever possible.
- We will use a blend of webinars, video conferencing and face-to-face sessions (as permitted) to make the programmes easy to access, regardless of the restrictions from Government guidelines.
- We are drawing on the best available evidence – wherever possible – to give schools the confidence in the potential impact of the programmes.
- Lastly, and perhaps crucially, we are focusing on areas that we believe are not just here for the COVID-19 recovery phase, but will become/continue-to-be enduring features of the school system: remote learning, closing the gap, mental health, early career teachers.
Universal School Improvement Offer
All schools are on a school improvement journey, regardless of their Ofsted rating. Most school leaders would recognise that improvement is not a straight-forward business.
This offer is open to all schools. In particular, we want to reach out to Good schools who are less likely to be entitled to additional support from their Local Authority, the DfE or from funded programmes, but may be experiencing challenges in maintaining good outcomes and may consider themselves vulnerable to future Ofsted inspections.
This Universal School Improvement Offer provides a range of opportunities for school leaders to support their school improvement journey. These opportunities are underpinned by a set of common principles:
This offer is open to all schools. In particular, we want to reach out to Good schools who are less likely to be entitled to additional support from their Local Authority, the DfE or from funded programmes, but may be experiencing challenges in maintaining good outcomes and may consider themselves vulnerable to future Ofsted inspections.
This Universal School Improvement Offer provides a range of opportunities for school leaders to support their school improvement journey. These opportunities are underpinned by a set of common principles:
- Self and Collective responsibility: each school leader is responsible for the improvement journey of their school – it is their choice on how this is done; equally all schools have a moral responsibility to support each other to improve, as ultimately, we have a collective responsibility for all children in the system.
- Evidence-informed: each programme underpinned by strong research and evidence showing why it works
- Rigorous and supportive: all schools have the right to be challenged constructively to improve
- Conducted in a spirit of trust and openness: we want schools to share data, be honest about their improvement priorities and engage critically in self and peer review processes
School Improvement Team - Leading SI within the Teaching School Hub
The purpose of the School Improvement Team is to ensure that School Improvement is highly effective is improving outcomes for pupils. To achieve this the School Improvement Team sets out to be relentless, focused, and committed to activities that have the best chances of improving pupil outcomes. We are determined to bring pace, energy and purpose to all activity to ensure that the considerable resources and people available through the TSH make a real difference to pupils, especially those who at now receiving an education that is not good enough in this moment in time.
