A culture of professional reflection and growth is imperative to enable schools to face existing and future challenges with assurance, confidence and skill through a range of training opportunities.

At Services For Education, our team of expert advisers have an excellent reputation in helping schools improve.

Over 20 Years’ Experience

Tap into a wealth of knowledge. Our team is made up of ex headteachers and leaders in their field, all ensuring you stay up to date with best practices and the latest information.

Online or Face-to-Face Flexibility

We understand the need for flexibility and minimal disruptions during the academic year. That’s why we offer a selection of online and face-to-face school improvement support services.

Bespoke Support for Everyone

Input is designed to support those who are new to leadership roles as well as established leaders including middle leaders, senior leaders, governors and headteachers through a range of CPD models.

We are able to offer extensive school improvement partner services, to include regular input with headteachers and leaders, all of which are tailor-made to suit your individual school’s needs. Our school improvement partners are experienced ex-headteachers, who understand the difference high quality school improvement partner provision brings, including the performance management process for headteachers, in partnership with governors.

Key benefits of an SFE School Improvement Partner:

• Helps develop the leadership and management expertise in your school
• Validates the school’s evaluation of key areas
• Enables schools to prepare for the challenges of inspection
• Helps identify the key priorities for improvement
• Ensures document integrity to support school improvement activity

Our structured programme of support is based on growing a strong relationship and professional dialogue, usually, through termly visits, each with a particular focus. Every school will have an allocated Leadership and Management Adviser to work with school leaders throughout the year, so contributing to robust, professional challenge and support.

Growth and development of subject leaders is imperative. The new inspection framework reinforces this as part of the ‘quality of education’ judgement. Services For Education offers a range of subject reviews as a mechanism for school improvement, and these can be tailor-made to suit requirements. Through a partnership approach and joint activity with leaders, including a written report, our advisers will be able to highlight strengths, areas for development and suggest approaches in moving forward.

Our most popular subject reviews include: Science, Maths, English (reading, writing), PSHE, RSE and RE, SEND and can extend to include other national curriculum subjects.

As well as support and development for subject leadership, our advisers are able to offer aspect reviews. Growth and development of aspect leaders is imperative.  The new inspection framework reinforces this as part of the ‘quality of education’ judgement.

Services For Education offers a range of aspect reviews as a mechanism for school improvement, and these can be tailor-made to suit requirements. Through a partnership approach and joint activity with leaders, including a written report, our advisers will be able to highlight strengths, areas for development and suggest approaches in moving forward.

Our most popular aspect reviews include: Safeguarding, Curriculum, Assessment and Early Years, and can extend to include other aspects determined by the school.

Schools collect internal data and also have access to national data sets including the Inspection Data Summary Report (IDSR) and Analyse School Performance (ASP). How schools use and interpret this information is key in identifying strengths, weaknesses and school improvement priorities.

At Services For Education, our school improvement partners can work with you to help understand primary data sets and use this to form key lines of enquiry and hypotheses. Learn how to interrogate your data and information with confidence and key strategies, especially with IDSR and ASP, and how to triangulate this with wider evidence to gain a detailed view of your school’s performance.

The school development plan is one of the greatest influencers in driving improvement. A high quality strategic plan propels prioritised activity from identification to outcome. This key document must have synergy with your self-evaluation and performance management process in order to ensure coherence and a rationale for action.

Our identified advisers can enable school leaders achieve this through a supportive review process, including analysis of the quality of information documented, outcomes and impact measures, and review mechanisms to ensure effective, focused and strategic improvement.

Learn how to formulate key strategic documents, record the impact of activity to capture improvement, and inform future plans.