Services
(Sept 2024 - July 2025)
School Improvement Partners provide a single point of contact for the school. They work with school leaders to support, challenge and validate self-evaluation.
They are able to facilitate teaching and learning reviews and support the development of leadership at all levels. They can assist schools in preparation for Ofsted inspections, including desktop surveys of school websites, data and documentation.
Working across a multi-disciplinary School Improvement Service they are also able to broker bespoke Continuous Professional Development and facilitate the sharing of best practice.
Improvement Partner
Your Improvement Partner will provide the equivalent of three full days comprising of three half-day visits plus a written report. In addition, the school can contact the Improvement Partner to discuss specific school issues. The visits will take place over the academic year and are tailored to meet the needs of your school. The record of each visit can be part of your evidence of external challenge and validation.
The Improvement Partner will:
- Discuss and agree the required support for the year.
- Ensure visits support the school’s improvement priorities.
- Provide relevant email or telephone support.
Additional Teaching and Learning Support
IP/School Peer Review
Schools have the option to use one of their half-day visits to participate in an IP/school peer review with a small group of other Royal Greenwich schools.
The IP/School Peer Review process enables school leaders to focus on a particular school improvement priority. The review process provides external quality assurance from other school leaders, facilitated by an IP.
As part of the process leaders will visit and peer review the schools they are working with. An Improvement Partner will facilitate each of these visits.
Participation in the IP/School Peer Review will not incur any additional costs. For further information, please click here and see service specification below.
Headteacher Performance Management
Royal Greenwich can provide the external advisor role for Headteacher performance management. For further information please see the service specification available below.
Costs
- Improvement Partner Programme plus Headteacher performance management is £2,300
- Improvement Partner Programme is £1,750 per academic year
- Additional teaching and learning support can be purchased in the following packages:
- Headteacher performance management with no Improvement Partner Programme is £550
For Royal Greenwich schools that are part of the Local Authority and School Support Meeting (LASSM) process, the cost of the standard IP programme will be met by the Council as part of the package of targeted support.
