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The Leading Edge Partnership programme is an international network for high-performing schools with a commitment to raising achievement through collaboration and innovation. It was established in 2003 by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK. The programme continues to encourage schools to work together to raise achievement through the sharing of proven ideas and to solve some of the most intractable problems in education.
SSAT (The Schools Network) is a UK-based, independent educational membership organisation working with primary, secondary, special, free schools and academies. Its work is focused on providing support and training in four main areas: teaching and learning, curriculum, networking, and leadership development.
The Prince’s Teaching Institute helps teachers bring the latest thinking into their classrooms and supports them to make lasting improvements in what and how they teach. The Institute brings passionate teachers together and encourages them to make rigorous curriculum choices, to teach beyond the test and to forge links with like-minded schools and academic institutions. Our school is currently working towards being accredited in History.
The Secondary Geography Quality Mark recognises quality and progress in geography leadership, curriculum development, learning and teaching in school. As well as acknowledging excellence within the school, they also indicate effective team leadership and high quality geography teaching. This involves an ongoing process of curriculum review, identifying priorities for departmental CPD, sharing good practice and encouraging creative and critical thinking about curriculum making. Our school has also achieved the ‘Centre of Excellence’ status, which recognises the department’s contribution to quality geography at the highest level.
Nasen is the UK’s leading organisation supporting those who work with or care for children and young people with special and additional educational needs and disabilities. Nasen support staff including SENCOs, leaders, teachers, governors and teaching assistants in meeting the needs of the pupils in schools and settings through promoting education, training, development and support. Nasen are an invaluable source of advice, offering an exclusive and vital range of benefits.
The PSHE Association is the national body for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education, leading the effort to ensure that every pupil receives high-quality provision. They provide expert advice, training and high-quality resources to PSHE practitioners, driving up standards of PSHE provision in schools across the country. They work with a variety of corporate, public and voluntary sector partners to help improve PSHE provision in schools.
NATRE is the subject teacher association for RE professionals. It works to support those who teach and lead in all schools and institutions and at all stages of their career. Our schools lead the Cyprus arm of this organisation. NATRE provides a focal point for the concerns of RE professionals, a representative voice at national level for all who teach and lead in RE as well as providing publications and courses to support professional development.
Investors in Pupils builds on the principles of Investors in People, to empower all pupils by involving them in decision-making, and developing responsibility and leadership in relation to their learning, behaviour, attendance, classroom management and induction. It is powerful in developing a positive ethos where pupils learn about how the school is run, and to understand how they can contribute to the running of the school. Pupils commit to common goals and teamwork – together with each other and with staff.
Our school supports the Arts Award which helps students grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through setting personal challenges in an art form of their choice — from fashion to film making, pottery to poetry. Arts Award offers national qualifications that enable young people to progress into further education and employment. Young people not only gain art form knowledge and understanding but also develop leadership, creativity and communication skills.
Into Film helps provide children and young people with opportunities for meaningful engagement with film. This includes access to thousands of films specially selected with educators in mind, together with accompanying resources, exclusive film industry opportunities and ways to get involved with programming, reporting, reviewing, and film making. Into Film enables our SJS Film Club to host regular films, which we show for free, providing a wonderful opportunity to our young community.
The National Governors’ Association (NGA) is an independent charity that aims to improve the educational standards and well-being of children and young people through supporting and promoting outstanding governance in all state-funded schools, including academies and free schools. We work closely with, and lobby, government and the major educational bodies to ensure that the views of governors are fully represented in the national arena.
Potential Plus UK support the social, emotional and learning needs of children with high learning potential. Our partnership helps us to understand the issues and to help us to support the social, emotional and learning needs of children and young people with high learning potential.
IRIS connect is a video based professional learning platform that staff within the Federation use to further improve their already outstanding teaching and learning.
It is an online video platform which allows teachers to film their own practice and reflect and improve their own teaching which has the added benefit of teachers being able to share their videos with others to help all staff improve. IRIS connect therefore deepens the existing culture of self reflection and sharing best practice that exists in both schools.
The vision we have is to be a federation that has a large group of teachers trained in IRIS connect with a bank of videos demonstrating and analysing our best practice which can be shared across our federation and eventually beyond with collaborative work with areas of best practice in outstanding UK schools.