Growing great people is one of our key strategic anchors.  We know that to be successful in our mission to transform lives, strengthen communities and make the world a better place we must grow and develop our great people and support them to achieve their aspirations.

Our newly launched Ted Wragg Institute provides a professional development curriculum for every individual in our Trust regardless of job role.

To see the range of training and development we offer throughout the year, take a look at our Ted Wragg Institute brochure for 2024-2025 above. 

Every year in the week after Autumn half term we have a week dedicated to staff development.  This year over 1800 teachers and co-professionals took part in a range of professional development led by our Directors, Trust leaders and external experts.

Please find below our Investment week offer for Autumn 2024.

Our development cohorts are an important part of our professional development offer.  Our cohorts are defined groups of learners participating in a programme of study within a defined time frame, many in partnership with external organisations. Our 2024-2025 cohorts include:

• Becoming an excellent middle/subject leader in Primary schools
• Teach First Careers Leaders programme
• Early Career teachers (years 1 and 2)
• Early Career Teacher mentors
• Future SENDCos
• NPQs in SENDCo, Leading Behaviour and Culture, Leading Literacy, Leading Teaching, Senior Leadership and Headship
• New Headteachers
• Current Headteachers

All employees are encouraged to develop their own career pathway in collaboration with the Ted Wragg Institute. 

We are extremely proud of our bespoke instructional coaching programme which puts the development of teaching staff at the heart of school improvement.  

Our coaching programme is provided fortnightly for all teachers across our family of schools.  This one-to-one coaching is a CPD programme tailored to each teacher’s individual needs.  It is designed for development, not evaluation, with the aim of developing excellence in all our teacher’s practice.  Taking small steps helps teachers to deliver high quality classroom pedagogy.  The emphasis on small, gradual improvements is what makes coaching so effective; turning previous action steps in to habits.

At our Trust we believe that great leadership:

We know that the key to our success is growing and nurturing our own talented individuals and supporting them throughout their leadership journey.   Our Ted Wragg Institute offers a variety of course designed to support our leaders including Trust-led NPQs and four annual leadership masterclasses.

With over 50 networks, these are a key part of how we grow great people.  All our networks are designed to bring people together with a shared sense of purpose to inform, consult and develop colleagues in a collaborative environment.

Our active and vibrant networks include curriculum leads (primary and secondary), attendance, data, business and operations, DSL, DDSL, ECT, Literacy, raising standards, strengthening communities and senior mental health leads.

We are passionate about supporting our employees to develop and actively support a wide range of apprenticeships for both new and current employees.