Jill Sweeney, Headteacher of Aston Manor Academy in Birmingham, has visited a number of schools since joining the Midlands regional headteacher network for...
Phil Hedger, CEO of Leo Academy Trust talks about his experience of the Challenge Partners' Trust Leaders' Network. "What has immediately struck me about...
Mary Rose Academy is a special school in Portsmouth for 164 pupils aged 2-19 years who have severe and complex learning difficulties, physical disabilities and...
In this short video , Manor Leas Junior school headteacher - James Greenwood tells us why he thinks the Quality Assurance Review can be a great benefit to...
Onslow St Audrey’s is a secondary school based in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Onslow St Audrey’s participated in a Challenge Partners programme supporting them to...
Heathfield Community School is a community secondary school in Taunton with 23% pupil premium students. Challenge the Gap (CtG) supported the school to test...
The Portsmouth Hub was established in 2014 and grew out of the Portsmouth Teaching School Alliance, led by Alison Beane OBE, NLE (Executive Director, Solent...
Chrysalis hub was established in March 2018 with Claremont High School Academy (CHSA) as the lead school. Since then we have continued to grow and develop. We...
Andrew Jones, Assistant Headteacher at The Reach Free School and co-manager of the Herts and Bucks Hub explains a collaborative hub research project on...
Samuel Whitbread Academy is an upper school and sixth form in Bedfordshire. They have been with Challenge Partners since 2016 and recently had a Quality...
Cambridge School is a small special needs secondary school in Shepherd's Bush, London. They have been with Challenge Partners since 2017. Here the assistant...
The Victory Primary School is a primary academy in Portsmouth with 31.5% disadvantaged pupils. By providing additional challenge and support, the school has...
Royal Wootton Bassett Academy is a large secondary school in Wiltshire. After securing an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted judgement, the school joined Challenge Partners...
Bishop Challoner School (secondary phase) has a high Pupil Premium intake of 56% and identified the following the key barriers to learning among their...
Dunstone Primary School faced a particular challenge with a lack of understanding and use of new/extended vocabulary amongst their disadvantaged pupils which...
Upton Primary School found the children in their Challenge the Gap target cohort were challenged by a lack of confidence and resilience. In this interview,...
Harvington is a Church of England first school located north of Evesham in Worcestershire. Our school was judged as Good by Ofsted in 2012; our School...
We are an established hub engaging in activities which reflect the priorities of our partner schools. Our core aim has always been to explore fresh and thought...
We became a Challenge Partners school in 2012 and were excited to set up our own Ash Field Hub last year. As a new East Midlands hub of ten schools from...
The London West Alliance (LWA) is coordinated through Lampton School in Hounslow, which was in the first cohort of 100 schools that were designated as Teaching...
The coast gets a bad rap these days: poor outcomes; recruitment crisis; high deprivation; economic sinkholes, and living in isolation. Happily, that is not the...
The East Coast Hub, led by Senior Partner, Sally Garrett, headteacher at The Ashley School Academy Trust, currently includes seven schools spread across...
We are really proud of the rapid growth of our Camden Hub: we have grown from 1 to 5 and now 13 primary schools. Working within a local authority that has...
With Wootton Bassett’s support Wood Green moved from special measures to good in the space of a year: a fantastic result. George Croxford, Wootton Bassett Hub...
The Challenger Hub was established as a key priority when the Challenger Multi Academy Trust was formed in 2015. Our joint commitment to a school-led...
Jane Hext, Chair of Governors at Lawn Manor Academy says, "as school governors, one of our critical responsibilities is to hold the headteacher to account for...
The journey of the school Adam Lowing has been the headteacher at St Mary Cray Academy since 2014. The school had been through challenging circumstances for...
"Challenge the Gap taught us to involve everyone in the school in improving individual outcomes for our pupils. That meant making sure staff across the school...
"In one year, Lucy made 5 levels of progress in English to achieve a C at GCSE, and 4 levels of progress in maths to achieve a B". Lucy was a well-behaved...