- The School was
originally assessed on 21/22 June 2004 and formally
recognised as an Investor in People on 13 July 2004. They
have continued to develop their management practices and
embrace the principles of the Standard. The Core Management
Teams and Senior Management Team have developed a culture of
continuous improvement with a commitment to providing pupils
with the best possible start to their careers. They have
also continued to maintain a single status culture and
developed the ethos of ‘one team’. The Assessor has
discussed the good practices with the Core Management Team
and has suggested that they could be good role models for
other Schools and that they could be a useful case study for
Investors in People.
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- The School has become
‘Training School’ since the original Assessment and as such
has introduced some very good practices relating to Learning
and Development, Evaluation, Sharing Knowledge and
Leadership and Management.
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As part of their continuous
development strategy the School has developed their Intranet
which now has a section relating to whole staff training.
“Teams of colleagues (teaching and non-teaching) work
together to provide the very best experience for our
students. The National Agenda of Workforce Reform seeks to
promote closer working relationships between colleagues with
clearly focused roles. We continue to develop our practice
as we respond to our School Improvement Plan”. All staff can
identify their specific training needs in response to their
developing role as individuals or teams. They can also
identify best practice to be modelled across the School.
They can identify training by having staff responding to
whole staff needs from the School Improvement Plan (SIP),
Foundations for Learning, Language for Learning and
Performing Arts. They can also develop Induction Materials
for colleagues in new roles or those new to the School
through the Intranet. Finally there is also a facility for
Individual Professional Development.
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- As part of the
development of the Intranet there is now a section for CPD.
This enables staff to join the Action Research Group by
sharing best practice. There is also a facility for staff to
write up their own research and gain accreditation towards a
MA (Ed) via the South West Initiative for Training (SWIfT).
There is also the facility to access research to expand
knowledge and thinking and thereby develop new perspectives
on practice.
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