The Alliance of Leading Learning

“ Cavelle Priestley-Bird, Executive Director of People and Development

Developing Excellence: Our Trust staff embrace their new learning through the NPQs.

The Alliance of Leading Learning team continue to deliver the full suite of exemplary NPQs to leaders across our Trust We have over 350 participants on our programmes and 26 participants from within our Trust

Our staff have joined our success story and have ensured real impact on our schools’ performance:

Our Trust staff on our specialist programmes have fed back on the positive impact their learning is having on their day-to-day practice. The programmes are delivered by our in-house advanced facilitators Hugh Jackson, Elaine Robinson, Tracy Whelan, Jasmin Taylor and Lucy Luke. The success of these programmes is attributed to their excellent planning and delivery.

“This course is fantastic. You daren’t leave the room for a minute as it's packed full of really worthwhile knowledge and thinking…I have already recommended it as I enjoyed it so much…the most useful course I’ve ever been on." - NPQLT

Our NPQEL programme has been a resounding success with testimonials from our Trust leaders such as:

"A really powerful and essential course for anyone considering executive headship and CEO roles in the future. This course has opened my mind to thinking differently, understanding differences and exploring all opportunities. A brilliant must do course for any future forward thinking inspirational leader!"

Our NPQH cohort face to face sessions continue to inspire our future Headteachers within our Trust:

Shrewsbury Academy

"The face to face days are simply something to look forward to. Paul is overwhelmingly brilliant; his experiences and humour mean you spend the day challenged but smiling. I could not recommend the course enough, but what makes it exceptional is the quality of the team delivering."

NPQs remain fully funded for 2023 – 2024!

Find out more at: bit.ly/LeadingLearningNPQ

Sharing our Excellence – The Curious Curriculum:

This year, under the leadership of Claire Turner, we put on a suite of subject sessions for new primary school subject leaders to help improve knowledge, embed, and enhance subject leadership. All sessions were delivered by our exemplary subject experts in our Trust – Emma Brinkworth, Rachael Clarke, Liam Francis, George Hounsell, Georgina Hughes, Sophie King, Francesca Tudor and Claire Turner. Sessions this year covered the following subjects: Art, DT, Food, Geography, History, IT, Music, PE and Science. 49 teachers from 14 local primary schools (including our 5 Trust primaries) attended the sessions.

“A fantastic session, well delivered, informative and I left feeling more confident and inspired about my new subject role.”

“Fantastic day course that has provided lots of food for thought and clear actions to move the subject forward in our schools. I feel my subject knowledge and understanding has increased tenfold from today.”

ITT – Delivering Excellent Training to our Teachers of the Future:

We can measure the excellence of our ITT programme by the extremely high retention of the students and their employment outcomes. In delivering the programme, we employ more than 20 subject experts who tutor the participants in their specialism. This is uniqu successful outcomes of our p some of the highest results f which is a good reason to ce employed in the Trust who g commitment by mentoring, t our ITT students, have ensur again produced outstanding future

Tanita Taylor

Primary ITT and future English Teacher

“The Trust's commitment to excellence is unparalleled and their dedication to fostering a community of passionate educators like myself and providing us with exceptional learning opportunities sets a very high benchmark.”