Creative Learning College

What is the college? 

Why do we have a college? 

Put simply, it is the home of all trust training! The college serves to provide an internal and external curriculum of training and support.  

More about our college… 

We are committed to providing our staff, and our partners, with high-quality professional development. All of our work is research informed – we seek to establish a clear sense of ‘quality’ so that everyone knows what effective practice looks like. This section of our website sets out the main aims of our ‘college’ and introduces you to the curriculums we offer to our staff.  

College aims: 

• to support the professional growth of our workforce with inspirational curriculums  

• to offer a menu of external support that helps us realise our civic responsibilities and ambitions 

• to provide the wider education community with a window on our work. 

Our professional development draws on the latest research and models for school improvement. We were proud to be chosen as the inaugural case study for CST’s blog series on their ‘synthesis of evidence from system leaders’. Our work was also included in their subsequent publication ‘Lesson in trust-led school improvement’.   

Our college has a strong evidence base of its impact: 

• Over the last year the trust has received six inspections. Half of all key judgements have been rated as outstanding. 

• Our special school has been judged outstanding for the third consecutive time in a row.  

• Almost all standards in line with or well above national averages. 

• Our layered strategy and robust systems are praised for their accessibility, simplicity and effectiveness.  

We’re proud of that bullet list, but, we are always learning. We know that there is much more for us to do. We warmly welcome opportunities to engage with like minded educators who seek to advance education for public benefit. For more details about what we do, to commission work, or if you’d like to collaborate with us – please get in touch.  

You can find out more about the training we offer, the reviews we undertake and our wider school improvement work by clicking on the tiles below – the tiles cover the four main strands of our college: 

Leadership and Governance – including leadership training, governor workshops and our wider leadership curriculum.  

Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment – the nuts and bolts of our school improvement offer. What we mean by a ‘conception of quality’ and why thinking deeply a ‘quality curriculum’, ‘quality teaching and learning’ and ‘quality assessment’ is so improvement.  

Inclusion and belonging – details about our SEND reviews, attendance strategy and commitment to helping all children and staff belong to something that changes their lives.  

Partnerships – the people and organisations we work with. How we harness insights from research and our ambitions to embed qualifications and accreditation into our curriculums.  

How can I request support or ask about costs?

To find out more about commissioning any of the college’s work in your own setting, simply call: 01782 228912 or email [email protected].