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We have been a trusted education partner for nearly forty years, working collaboratively with schools and academies to support improvement and innovation.
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Our deep expertise enables us to tailor professional development and school improvement programmes that promote effective, sustainable, and student-focused outcomes.
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Offers inspiring and purposeful collaboration with other like-minded school leaders across primary, secondary, special and MAT schools as well as a range of discounted CPD and exclusive thought leadership.
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Nationally recognised status of excellent practice for teachers, support staff and leaders in any phase. Suitable for a cohort of staff, individuals or schools wanting to deliver their own training within their local network.
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Help your recruitment and retention, develop staff leaders, customise and deliver our training your way by partnering with us. For schools and MATs.
Student Leadership for IMPACT
SSAT are the UK’s biggest and most experienced provider of student leadership training and support for education providers, with over 30 years of experience helping settings build the capacity and capabilities of their student leaders.
Through webinars for staff facilitating your student leadership work and bespoke training for your student leaders we can help you increase the impact of your work in this crucial area. We can also help you to recognise the impact of your student leaders through our unrivalled accreditation process.
Upcoming events
View allTuesday 17 March 2026
Senior Leader Inspirations - Student leadership with impact
Thursday 19 March 2026
Attendance: Using attendance data effectively to better target interventions
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Readiness for Ofsted Inspection: Insights for school leaders
Thursday 26 March 2026
Aspiring Lead Practitioners
Deep Leadership for Educational Transformation
Deep Leadership for Educational Transformation highlights some of the actions needed if the school system in England is to meet the needs of all students.
Top picks for you
View all11 March 2026
Essential For Some, Beneficial For All
Research shows it is essential for students with Speech Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) to be explicitly taught tier 2 and tier 3 vocabulary, yet this is a strategy that all students benefit from: if we want our students to confidently speak like scientists, linguists, mathematicians, artists, musicians, historians, we must provide them with the vocabulary to do so.
11 March 2026
Bishopshalt School and St Louis Grammar School – ‘Transforming’ in all 12 strands of SSAT’s Framework for Exceptional Education
Congratulations to the teams at Bishopshalt School in London and St Louis Grammar School in Ballymena, who have become the latest two Leading Edge schools to successfully achieve ‘transforming’ status in all 12 strands of the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education. St Louis are the first school in Northern Ireland to achieve accreditation in all 12 strands.
3 March 2026
The Volatility of the New Ofsted Framework for Primary Schools
This blog is the third instalment where we are looking at data from our tracking of Ofsted inspection reports, to show how the new framework is playing out for schools. Here we focus on primary schools and outline how the new framework and inspection processes appear to more challenging for this sector.
25 February 2026
SSAT statement on the white paper – Every child achieving and thriving
SSAT broadly welcome the ambitions set out in the white paper – Every child achieving and thriving.
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