Price per year for academies and non maintained schools. Free for Hackney maintained schools.
Overview
High quality leadership is vital to improving outcomes for schools and their students.
Our School Improvement Partner (SIP) Programme will help you develop the highest standards of leadership and management expertise in your school. Our dedicated advisers will work with you to assess how well your students are doing, the quality of teaching and learning in your school and your current levels of management and leadership.
Through a programme of visits, we will work to quickly understand your situation and help you identify and implement key priorities for improvement and act as a catalyst for the creation of a vision of excellence to guide your school on its journey to improved performance and results.
What's included?
Our school improvement partners are skilled at building rapport with their schools, getting to know the systems, values and internal routines of each.
Each SIP will be a central link between their school and the local authority. They will act as an advocate for excellence, equity, equality, inclusivity, wellbeing and safeguarding and be a strategic point of contact and influence to ensure the local system provides timely support and response.
Our programme of SIP visits consists of a standardised, on-site half-day appointment each term.
Every visit results in a written report, usually two sides of A4.
The focus, schedule and activities will be agreed with the school. This may include, but is not limited to reviewing, affirming and validating the quality of education, using Ofsted inspection criteria, identifying priorities and determining strategies for improvement.
An example programme could consist of:
- Autumn term - focus on context and circumstances, current outcomes and achievements, subject performance, priorities and forward plans
- Spring term - focus on evidence of progress, is curriculum working for all students, what work is taking place to advance equity, equality, inclusivity and belonging, how is diversity celebrated
- Summer term - focus on progress against school plan, how does the school monitor and improve behaviour, attendance and attitudes, how are leaders developing students, wider pastoral work with families
What our customers think
“Hackney Education has supported us through their SIP programme since 2014. The Leadership and Management Adviser has provided real intellectual stretch and rigor to help shape the strategic plan from conception to execution.”
Dave Lee-Allen, Headteacher, Stowmarket High School, Suffolk
Why you should choose us
Hackney Education has over 23 years of success in school improvement and has been recognised nationally and internationally for its achievements in improving education.
Our advisers and consultants are knowledgeable, experienced and skilled professionals who take relationship-based approaches to their work. They can quickly validate your strengths and identify what actions need to happen.
Using our service will empower you to create a leadership strategy for your school that delivers results for all students.
Contacts
Leadership and Management
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