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Teaching School Alliance

Our Alliance is a thriving, challenging and happy environment. The Alliance works because all students, teachers, support colleagues, Governors, parents and friends play a major part in raising standards, aiming high and aspiring to achieve the best we can for all our students. As a truly diverse and mixed comprehensive Alliance we succeed with all abilities and needs. Equality of opportunity, respect and fairness are vital ingredients in this. We have a successful track record in all areas and are continually looking for opportunities to collaborate further.

If you have any enquiries about our Teaching School Alliance please contact Paul Clark (Deputy Headteacher).

The Aims:

To develop further the track record of Matravers School in contributing to school improvement, innovation and transformation both within the Alliance Partners and more widely across other schools to support, extend and embed the self-improving school system.

To enhance the opportunities and successes enjoyed by all students, staff and other stakeholders across the Alliance of schools.

To raise the standard of attainment and achievement across the Alliance to improve leadership and teaching and learning.

To provide all support and guidance for colleagues from pre-entry to the profession to Headship and beyond.

Teaching Schools provide key support on driving forward standards trough adressing the following Key Performance Indicators:

National KPI	Intent
1 Pupil attainment and closing the gap	The improvement each year in attainment at key stages 2, 4 and 5 for pupils attending schools in alliances is greater than the national average The reduction in the achievement gap for pupils in receipt of free school meals and/ or in care in teaching school alliances is greater than the national average
2 Overall effectiveness of schools	Schools in alliances show a greater than national average improvement in Ofsted judgements*, resulting in fewer poorly performing schools and more good and outstanding schools
3 Quality of teaching	As a result of effective initial teacher training and continuing professional development, schools in alliances show an improvement in Ofsted judgements for teaching and learning that is greater than the national average
4 Quality of leadership	As a result of effective leadership development, schools in alliances show an improvement in Ofsted judgements for leadership and management that is greater than the national average
5 Number of trainees trained**	The number of initial trainees trained in teaching school alliances increases year on year (in total and for each teaching school cohort)
6 Supply of leaders	As a result of effective talent spotting and succession planning, schools in alliances show an improvement in headship vacancy rates that is greater than the national average
7 Number of schools in teaching school alliances	The number of schools in teaching school alliances increases year on year (in total and for each teaching school cohort)
8 The number of SLEs designated, trained and deployed	The number of SLEs designated and trained by teaching schools is in line with targets agreed with DfE 50% of SLEs are deployed within 3 months of designation