The WHY,
HOW and WHAT of Pickwick Learning
WHY did
we set up Pickwick Learning Teaching School Alliance?
- We know
we’re stronger together. We believe partnership and collaboration is the best
way to continually develop and improve teaching and learning for children,
teachers and the communities in which we live and work.
- Our aim
is simple: to improve standards and life experiences for all pupils and adults
within our alliance by working together and learning from each other.
HOW will
we improve standards and life experiences for people in Pickwick?
We
believe we can achieve this by:
- Sharing a
set of values and beliefs that shape what we do and how we work. Our
like-minded contributors work together and reap the rewards.
- Encouraging
all practitioners to strive to improve outcomes for all children across our
alliance and beyond.
- Ensuring
that all individuals in our organisation are continually learning and
improving. Our members are a part of something bigger - we’re all important, we
all contribute, we all achieve. We join a growing pool of expertise and
sharing, being supported and then supporting in turn.
- Investing
in our organisation: surplus from our work goes back into supporting our member
schools.
- Encouraging
our members to contribute to our culture of learning where we collaborate to
share expertise, tackle challenges and reach our goals.
- Building
inclusive and productive relationships between members, inspiring each other in
a safe, trusting environment.
- Recognising
that young people are a product of their home, their family and their
communities, and that our alliance can help provide the tools they need to
succeed.
- Providing high quality School to School support that is focussed on school improvement, and is sustainable, accessible and inclusive.
- Narrowing the achievement gap between children who are eligible for free school meals and those who aren't.
- Providing outstanding Initial Teacher Training, and recruiting and training the very best teachers.
- Providing high quality CPD for teachers and leaders that is linked to improving outcomes for children.
- Identifying potential leaders at all levels and to develop excellence in specialist areas.
- Developing outstanding practice through shared research and development.
WHAT is
Pickwick Learning Teaching School Alliance?
- We’re a
unique inclusive partnership, encompassing nurseries, schools, charities and
businesses. We’ve adopted this inclusive approach, because a child’s life
experience is about more than just schooling: we recognise the importance of
the whole community in having an impact on our children’s education.
- We’re a
professional learning community. We want to identify and share best practice
and offer mutual support and expertise. We are ambitious - we want to raise
standards and we’re committed to the success of everyone involved.
- We run
high quality school-based initial teacher training, training our own teachers
‘on the job’ through our School Direct Programme to ensure the best new
teachers are working in our schools, and in turn helping to safeguard the
future of our profession.
- We run
exceptional professional development led by Specialist Leaders of Education,
national and international trainers and current practitioners.
- We broker
high impact outcomes-driven school to school support using experienced members
of staff to support schools in challenging circumstances.
- We take
part in evidence-based research projects which is used to feed into and improve
classroom practice across the alliance.
- We
constantly talent spot to ensure that all the schools in our organisation can effectively
succession plan, ensuring that leadership, and teaching and learning remains
consistently high quality.
- We run a
free annual Teaching and Learning conference to share best practice across the
alliance.