Challenge Partners
We are exceptionally proud to work with Challenge Partners, an education charity led by practitioners, through which schools collaborate to improve each other and the education system as a whole, so all children benefit. Programmes are created to facilitate school improvement and leadership development and share great practice.
The Chrysalis Hub was established in March 2018 with Claremont High School Academy (CHSA) as the lead school. Since then, we have grown from 5 schools to 16 – a mix of primary and secondary and including one sixth form college. In total we are supporting over 16,000 pupils through the Hub.
Primary
Fryent Primary School
Sudbury Primary School
Avanti House Primary
Uxendon Manor Primary School
More Primary School
Mount Stewart Infant School
Kingsbury Green Primary
Secondary
Queensmead School
The Sydney Russell School
Claremont High
Park High School
Isleworth and Syon School for Boys
Holmer Green Senior School
Barnhill Community High School
Ditton Park Academy
Sixth Form College
St Dominic’s Sixth Form
Hub priorities:
The priorities we have agreed for the Hub this year include:
- To identify skills and strategies for supporting students with increasing SEN needs
- To identify ways of supporting the increasing number of EAL students who have no prior English and who have potentially come from backgrounds with trauma. Ensuring that these students can become assimilated and successful learners.
- Strategies to deal with the impact of developmental needs in students which is having an impact on speech and language and consequently also on writing.
Training:
- OTP (Outstanding Teacher Programme) - Shalina, Jack, Zara
- POC (Power of Coaching) - Shalina
- OTAP (Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme) - Treasa and Elena
- CTP (Creative Teacher Programme) – Alex and Davita from SPS
- OSM (a bespoke program we developed with OLEVI)- Mel and Shalina
- OLE (New this Year)- Shalina, Alex, leigh
- Mental Health First Aid Training
- Level 3 Safeguarding Training
- Positive Handling in Education
- Middle Leaders QAR
We have a proven track record of outstanding delivery and are delighted that we are able to offer training to schools within our hub. Our current priorities are to build closer relationships with existing schools in our Hub making the most of the network by sharing best practice and sending members of our team to visit other schools where we think it would be of benefit.
Find out more:
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