BPN has achieved significant milestones this year in now having trained or prepared over 4,500 HLTAs across the country since 2004, in addition to having assessed over 8,000 candidates as the Regional Provider of Assessment for the South West and West Midlands.
We are currently promoting summer workshops for HLTAs and TAs that provide opportunities to network and share good practice, as well as an update on key national developments that include key features of current educational policy, OFSTED recommendations and up to date research on the effective use and deployment of classroom based support staff.
National College programmes for school leaders in the North West will be delivered by a Partnership of Outstanding Schools and BPN. The Partnership, which includes Teaching Schools and Academies from all phases represents some of the best schools in the North West. It will be offering the College’s Modular Leadership Curriculum across the region, including the revised NPQH programme, from September.
Application forms for Lead facilitators, Subject matter experts and Online learning specialists wishing to join the North West Partnership regional team are now available online (under the Opportunities tab in the navigation menu above).
BPN duo Tonia Bowden and Jo Poole will be visiting Uganda later in the year as part of our support for PEAS (Promoting Equality in African Schools). We aim to go beyond the material support in the building of new schools to developing relationships with children and teachers in Uganda and the UK.
Closer to home we have provided support over Christmas to young people in QK House (see http://www.qkschool.org.uk/qkhouse) who find themselves homeless but are committed to completing their education.
We have just heard that our bid to become a preferred supplier to schools in Waltham Forest has been successful. Our work in Newham gathers apace with a formal Launch on March 7 when Professor Louise Stoll will talk about Professional Development. Our success in Slough means that seven BPN consultants will be supporting schools across the borough.
The Exceptional Schools Award is being launched this week with an advertisement in the TES (24th February) and a series of launch events in the pilot schools. The next events are:
If you live locally to any of these events please let Laura (laura@bestpracticenet.co.uk) know if you would like to attend or have links with outstanding schools that might like to be invited.
We will also be launching ‘Outstanding Teaching – every time’, our intensive school based support package and the ‘Self Evaluation Toolkit’ in the coming weeks.
