Challenge Partners

Sudbury Primary School is...

Outstanding in every way

Challenge Partners

We are exceptionally proud to work with Challenge Partners, an education charity led by practitioners, through which schools collaborate to improve each other and the education system as a whole, so all children benefit. Programmes are created to facilitate school improvement and leadership development and share great practice.

The Chrysalis Hub was established in March 2018 with Claremont High School Academy as the lead school. Since then, we have grown from 5 schools to 19 – a mix of primary and secondary and including one sixth form college. In total we are supporting over 15,000 pupils through the Hub.

Primary

Avanti House Primary
Cedars Manor
Esley Primary
Islamia Primary
Kingsbury Green Primary
Krishna Avanti Primary
Mount Stewart Infant
Mount Stewart Junior
Mora Primary
Salusbury Primary
Sudbury Primary
Uxendon Manor Primary
Whitchurch Primary School & Nursery

Secondary

Avanti House
Claremont High
Park High
Preston Manor
Rooks Heath

Sixth Form College

St Dominic’s Sixth Form

Hub priorities:

The priorities we have agreed for the Hub this year include:

Maximising the collaboration between all schools within the Hub to capitalise on varying expertise and specialisms. This will include opportunities for Middle Leaders.
Rebuilding a school community post Covid, including focus on staff and pupil wellbeing and happiness.
Developing the pedagogical knowledge and skills of a staff body in a way that allows individual members of staff to flourish, while also developing sustainable systems in a school regardless of staff turnover. This would focus on developing our Middle Leaders in a way that they could disseminate knowledge and skills to their teams now and in the future.

Training:

We are running a number of programmes to support the training of our own staff including:

Outstanding Teacher Programme
Power of Coaching
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme
Creative Teacher Programme
OSM – a bespoke programme developed with OLEVI (Teacher Development and Leadership Courses)
Mental Health First Aid Training
Level 3 Safeguarding Training
Positive Handling in Education
Curriculum Development Programme and/or coaching approach to Middle Leadership.

We have a proven track record of outstanding delivery and are delighted that we are able to offer training to schools within our own Hub as well as opening up the opportunity to other schools within the Challenge Partners. Our current priorities are to build closer relationships with existing schools in our Hub making the most of the network by sharing best practice and sending members of our team to visit other schools where we think it would be of benefit.