CPD and training
Our comprehensive CPD and training offer is strategically aligned with each School Improvement Plan and our Trust-wide priorities. We encourage and enable all teaching and support staff to engage in CPD and training to meet the needs of their current role and future career aspirations. This includes mandatory training, role-specific learning, and professional development. Our comprehensive training offer is delivered by our own Trust Improvement Consultants, our Executive team, or expert external facilitators.
On demand training via The Key
Our staff benefit from Trust-wide membership of The Key, which provides everyone with support and resources relevant to their role. As well as specific content for those in leadership roles or with safeguarding responsibilities, there is also an extensive CPD library and AI-powered assistant, ChatGPT. Our mandatory training is also delivered via The Key.
Termly CPD programmes
Each term, we offer a curated programme of ‘bitesize’ CPD sessions – one-hour online workshops or presentations which are designed to provide a taster of a subject area or enable staff to brush up on their existing knowledge.
Recent sessions include:
- Maximising Arbor efficiency
- A guide to Ofsted inspection plans
- Capturing the student learning journey with Canva
- Introduction to neurodiversity and support strategies
- Mastering absence for line managers
- SEND: The four broad areas of need
Teaching and learning development
Our Trust Improvement Consultants provide specialist teaching and learning advice and support to our schools. This includes training, 1:1 support, face-to-face visits, reviews, observations, and guidance to create action plans.
Bespoke training
We collaborate with senior leaders in our schools to deliver bespoke training for specific requirements.
Training and support available across our schools
- Child Protection
- Raising Awareness in Safeguarding
- Filtering and Monitoring for schools
- Online safety
- Using Every for school SCRs (single central records)
- Adaptive teaching
- Attachment training
- Legal paperwork and compliance
- Social, emotional, and mental health needs
- Supporting pupils with neurodivergence
- Safer recruitment
- HR information systems
- Equality and diversity
- Induction
- Probation
- Professional Development Reviews
- Grievance
- Disciplinary
- Managing sickness
- Managing conflict
- Employee wellbeing and support
- Stress awareness
- Menopause awareness
- Embracing flexible working
- Workplace relations training (ACAS)
- Business professional training delivered by the Department for Education and Institute of School Business Leaders
- Barracuda Spam release
- Breach notification
- Copilot
- Cyber security
- Data protection
- Data retention
- Freedom of information
- Microsoft Office 365
- SharePoint
- Subject access requests
- Comprehensive finance training is included for relevant staff as part of induction
- Health and Safety training is provided to all staff via The Key. Site team members in our schools also undertake in-depth training (e.g. manual handling, COSHH). Our Trust team also provide training on Every Compliance, our online tool for monitoring health and safety compliance.
