Blog Post BLOG: How Wokingham Schools are building relationships that allow for challenge as well as support. We chat to Philip Theobald, Assistant Head at Emmbrook Junior School in Wokingham, on how their partnership of three schools is working toward embedding collaboration at all levels. Case Study "At the time I was not entirely convinced. Now, four years later on, I'm a real advocate." Victoria Saville, Principal, Fieldhead Primary Academy. As a new principal for a school in special measures, they were already under real scrutiny by HMI. However, the Schools Partnership Programme felt like something that they had more control over, see into other schools and dig deep into what they were doing, and feel like they were part of something different. Case Study "It's not a process that's punitive, where people feel like it's being done to them." Nadia Hannam, Principal, Birstall Primary Academy. At first Nadia was one of the most sceptical people in the room, but after talking the process through with other heads and reaching an understanding of how they were going to do it, she could see how beneficial the Schools Partnership Programme could be for her school. Blog Post NEW REPORT: The Principles of Effective School-to-School Peer Review Today, school leaders’ union NAHT publishes its ‘Principles of Effective School-to-School Peer Review’ report, which argues that peer review between schools should be the norm, not an exception, and should be at the core of the school improvement system. Case Study "I saw it as a challenge for me." Karl Rogerson, Principal, Billesley Primary School talks to us about his experience of being part of the Schools Partnership Programme and offers his advice to new Improvement Champions. Case Study "It’s actually peers doing it for each other." Hear Liz Robinson talk about her experience of SPP as a headteacher and peer reviewer within the Southwark Teaching School Alliance. Case Study "It really fosters a kind of belief that we’re all teachers and we’re all in it for the children." Levia Ostrove-Pound discusses what it's like to be an improvement champion within her partnership, and how leading a large improvement workshop made her confidence grow. Case Study "We’ve built-in a stronger mechanism for accountability, checking back and seeing how it’s going." The Kyra Teaching School Alliance, based at Lincoln Mount Street Academy in Lincolnshire, began in 2012 as a partnership of seven schools. Since then it has grown to be a large strategic force for school improvement in Lincolnshire and now includes over 50 schools. Case Study "Peer review provides a backbone for the school improvement cycle." The Centurion Partnership is a group of 7 small primary schools who had worked collaboratively for many years, and were heavily involved with the School’s Partnership Programme from its pilot year. Blog Post PODCAST: Matt Davis and Marie-Claire Bretherton talk school-to-school collaboration Matt Davis, UK Regional Director at Education Development Trust, is joined by Marie-Claire Bretherton, leader of the Kyra Teaching School Alliance, to look at how some of the approaches on peer review and school-to-school collaboration have worked for the Kyra alliance through the Schools Partnership Programme 1 2 3