STARS Partnership
STARS
STARS is a school partnership which is designed to provide opportunities for collaboration and the sharing of good practice which will result in the improvement of standards within a group of local schools. A raising achievement board has been set up within the collaboration to drive a continuous and consistent trust-wide focus to drive continuous school improvement.
What does STARS mean?
S |
- Strategic Planning |
We aim to combine our forces to plan ahead to enhance our strengths and tackle |
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T |
- Team |
As a partnership we will work together and support and trust each other. |
A |
- Aspirational |
We will not settle for good but will aspire for the best for all our pupils. |
R |
- Raising Standards |
We will work together to improve the standards of pupils outcomes as well as |
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- Sharing Good Practice |
Where this is capacity and strength we will share and support others in an atmosphere |
STARS is a group of 5 local schools Byfleet Primary School, Kingfield Primary School, Maybury Primary School, St Mary’s CofE Primary School and Westfield Primary School. The group will work alongside a Babcock Overview partner and other associate headteachers.
We work collaboratively on many policies and practices to provide high quality school improvement utilising the expertise’s within our schools which include:
- Heads, Deputy Headteacher, School Business Manager and Home School link work network meetings
- School Development Plans priorities sharing
- Monitoring and Peer Review and SEF reviews
- Middle leadership development
- Shared performance management policies linked to Performance Related Pay
- Working parties for Curriculum and Assessment development including standardisation of assessment e.g. Reception baseline
- Data analysis through the raising achievement board
- Sharing good practice- we will have a good practice register which highlights excellence in particular areas including EAL, Maths, Literacy, EYFS
- NQT training
- INSET training and sharing statutory training days
- Moderation from Nursery to Year 6
- Curriculum leader network meetings
- Shared PE provision including utilising skilled PE teachers
- Recruitment and Employment