Teaching and Learning

Subject Leader Training

Intended audience

  • Experienced subject leaders
  • Aspiring subject leaders
  • Senior leaders
  • Primary and secondary

Intended outcomes

To develop the skills and knowledge of subject leadership to improve pupil outcomes through:

  • Developing subject knowledge expertise
  • Understanding the key components of effective teaching and learning and the common barriers which slow or stop learning
  • Identifying the right priorities through analysis of data and ongoing monitoring
  • Developing effective monitoring skills including lesson observation, book scrutiny and pupil voice
  • Providing effective feedback
  • Effective curriculum design and organization
  • The structure of an effective leadership conversation
Writing Training

Intended audience

  • Writing leads
  • English leads
  • Senior leaders
  • Primary

Intended outcomes

To improve pupil outcomes in writing through the roll out of a codified model of good practice consisting of:

  • Strategic long term overview of GPS and genre (including teaching order)
  • Sustained GPS learning journey (one objective that is broken down in to prescribed component parts)
  • Retrieval practice through Sentence not Sentence
  • Consistent stem sentences
  • Genre learning journey
  • High quality modelled writes
  • Explicit teaching of the writing process (planning, drafting, editing and improving)
  • Identification and robust instruction of tier 2 vocabulary
  • Identification and use of high quality text
EYFS Hub Meetings

Intended audience

  • EYFS leads
  • Primary

Intended outcomes

To support & promote effective EYFS practice across the Trust, ensuring that all SUAT schools are supported in delivering high quality provision.

To improve pupil outcomes and provision in the EYFS through:

  • Working collaboratively to find solutions to identified issues
  • Identifying and sharing best practice
  • Supporting effective EYFS curriculum development that is ambitious for all children and meets the individual needs, interests and development of all children
  • Supporting effective EYFS assessment procedures
  • Developing and ensuring the effectiveness of EYFS leadership and management
  • Ensuring all practitioners are knowledgeable, highly skilled and effective
  • Developing cycles of effective monitoring of EYFS provision and practice
  • Developing EYFS policy and procedure in response to latest policy, research and guidance
Moderation Hub Meetings

Intended audience

  • Writing leads
  • Senior leaders
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • To support and promote effective moderation practice across the Trust, ensuring that all SUAT schools are well supported in delivering high quality provision.
SEND Policy Development

Intended audience

  • Principals/Headteachers
  • SENCo
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Ensure professionals are aware of legal framework that underpins Sen policy and Sen information reports.
  • Collaborate on evaluating current SEN policy by conducting an audit on each Schools policy
  • Collaborate on evaluating current SEN information reports by conducting an audit in each schools report.
  • Discuss on Howe we can make the Sen information report accessible for all our parents regardless of barriers
  • Brief discussion about current Accessibility and Equality action plan, what are current priorities, are there trust wide priorities?
SEND Lead Meetings

Intended audience

  • Principals/Headteachers
  • SENCOs
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Termly updates for SENCos on National developments
  • Termly updates for SENCos on local developments
  • Opportunities to discuss anonymous cases to develop collaborative skill sharing among SENCos
  • Improve quality of external agency referrals
  • Develop knowledge, skills and resources to improve support for Sen in EY
  • Develop SENCos on their knowledge, skills and resources for emotional regulation, to upskill staff in setting.
  • To create and collate a staged response document, including interventions, reasonable adjustments and strategies.
Reading Working Group

Intended audience

  • Reading leads
  • English leads
  • Senior leaders
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

To improve outcomes for children and young people in the curriculum area of reading by:

  • Identifying barriers to children achieving ARE and above
  • Using evidence based research to inform solutions
  • Working collaboratively to develop and/or align the reading curriculum.
  • Embedding EEF Implementation guidance in improvement initiatives.
  • Establishing an improvement cycle that allows for evaluation.
  • Providing time for staff to reflect on practice.
Maths Working Group

Intended audience

  • Maths leads
  • Senior leaders
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

To improve outcomes for children and young people in the curriculum area of maths by:

  • Identifying barriers to children achieving ARE and above
  • Using evidence based research to inform solutions
  • Working collaboratively to develop and/or align the maths curriculum.
  • Embedding EEF Implementation guidance in improvement initiatives.
  • Establishing an improvement cycle that allows for evaluation.
  • Providing time for staff to reflect on practice.

Safeguarding

Safeguarding Supervision Hub

Intended audience

  • DSLs
  • DDSLs
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

To effectively safeguard each and every child throughout their educational career within SUAT academies, to ensure that they achieve the best outcomes in a safe and enriching learning environment by ensuring that:

  • Safeguarding CPD provides all practitioners with the knowledge, skills and confidence to safeguard pupils effectively
  • A consistent approach to supervision enables DSLs to fulfil their role whilst minimising impact on personal wellbeing
  • Discuss any issues – particularly concerning pupil’s development or wellbeing, including child protection concerns.
  • Identify solutions to address issues as they arise.
  • Share best practice to improve their personal effectiveness.
  • Critically reflect on practice
  • Make use of the support offered to help cope with the demands of protecting pupils.

Mental Health and Wellbeing

Mental Health and Wellbeing Hub and Committee Meetings

Intended audience

  • Mental Health and Wellbeing Leads
  • Mental Health First Aiders
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

 “To provide a working and learning environment whereby individual and organisational wellbeing is embedded in everything that we do. Creating a healthy, happy, supportive, resilient and productive workforce who are able to thrive, personally and professionally, and collectively maximise the positive impact for the children in our care, both now and in the future, to flourish and improve their life chances.”

  •  To support and promote effective mental health and wellbeing provision across the Trust.
  • To support the Trust and academies to provide a working and learning environment whereby individual and organisational wellbeing is embedded in everything that we do.
  • To support the workforce which is happy, healthy, resilient and productive, to thrive personally and professionally.
  • To support children to flourish and improve their life chances.
  • Training and CPD provides Wellbeing Leads with the knowledge, skills and confidence to support mental health and wellbeing
  • To provide a network of support and supervision for wellbeing leads
  • To reflect, discuss and share best practice to cascade across the Trust and improve the effectiveness of wellbeing strategies across the Trust
  • To develop Mental Health and Wellbeing policies and progress the Mental Health and Wellbeing strategy

Leadership and Management

Principals' Meeting

Intended audience

  • Principals/Headteachers
  • Primary

Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Trust updates
  • School improvement updates
  • Finance updates
  • Business and Operations updates
  • Networking with colleagues
  • CPD through external speakers
SIAMs Leadership Group

Intended audience

  • Headteachers
  • Senior leaders
  • RE leads
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • CPD on identified elements of the SIAMs framework
  • Support network and opportunity for professional dialogue
  • To further develop RE provision and curriculum
  • Sharing of good practice
Futures Group

Intended audience

  • New Headteachers
  • New to the Trust Headteachers
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Support network
  • Working collaboratively to develop systems and processes for school improvement
Pupil Premium

Intended audience

  • Headteachers/Principals
  • PP leads
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Termly updates for PP Leads on National developments
  • Termly updates for PP Leads on local developments
  • Sharing of expertise and best practice
  • Facilitation of professional dialogue
LAC Chair Forum Meetings

Intended audience

  • LAC Chairs

Intended outcomes

  • To provide LAC Chairs an opportunity to meet together and to connect the different layers of governance
  • To share experiences and learning/updates
LAC Safeguarding Lead Link Meetings

Intended audience

  • LAC Safeguarding Leads

Intended outcomes

  • To provide LAC safeguarding leads an opportunity to come together and share learning, support each other
  • To share best practice
LAC Inspection Training

Intended audience

  • LAC

Intended outcomes

  • To provide LAC members with an overview of the changes to graded and ungraded Ofsted inspections from September 2024.
  • To share best practice in preparation for an Ofsted inspection

Business

Business Team Meetings

Intended audience

  • Office Managers
  • Finance Managers
  • H&S Co-ordinators / Premises Managers
  • Business and Operational Staff
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Trust updates
  • Finance updates
  • Business and Operations updates
  • Networking with colleagues
  • CPD through internal speakers
  • Collaborative working opportunities
New Office Manager Group

Intended audience

  • Colleagues who are new to the Trust and new to the role of Office Managers / Finance Managers / H&S Co-ordinators / Business and Operational Staff
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Support network
  • CPD and training opportunities for colleagues new to the role and new to the Trust
  • Working collaboratively to develop systems and processes for the business functions of the academies and the Trust
Workload Reduction Group

Intended audience

  • Office Managers
  • Finance Managers
  • H&S Co-ordinators / Premises Managers
  • Business and Operational Staff
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • Support network
  • Working collaboratively to identify systems, methods and processes to drive down workload within the business functions of the Trust
  • To develop efficiencies within the business functions of the Trust

Finance

Finance Meetings

Intended audience

  • Business Team
  • Finance and Office Teams
  • Principals and Headteachers

Intended outcomes

  • Support and training for budget setting and management
  • Support and training for forecasting
  • Support and training for payroll systems and functions
  • Finance / Grant updates

Health and Safety

Health and Safety Committee

Intended audience

  • Business Team
  • Principals and Headteachers
  • Health and Safety Leads and Coordinators
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • To receive and discuss key updates regarding H&S policies and practice
  • To work collaboratively to support continual H&S development across the Trust and ensure best practice
  • To support the management of H&S across the Trust
Health and Safety Training

Intended audience 

  • Business Team / Office Teams 
  • Health and Safety Coordinators 
  • Site staff and Premises Managers 
  • Principals and Headteachers 
  • Primary 
  • Secondary 

Intended outcomes

  • Health and Safety training is arranged on a bespoke basis
  • Training is arranged on a termly basis

Data Protection

Data Protection Committee

Intended audience

  • Business Team / Office Team
  • Principals and Headteachers
  • Data Protection Leads
  • Primary
  • Secondary

Intended outcomes

  • To receive and discuss key updates regarding data protection policies and practice
  • To work collaboratively to support and develop practice in relation to data protection matters and processes across the Trust
  • To support the effective management and protection of personal data across the Trust