School Improvement

Where are you on your journey to becoming a great school? At SSAT, we know teachers and leaders in every school are striving to overcome different challenges to deliver a world class learning experience for the children they serve. Built around the SSAT Framework for Exceptional Education (FfEE) we offer a range of flexible solutions through in-school support and supported self-evaluation tools covering all school priority areas.

Framework for Exceptional Education

The Framework for Exceptional Education (FfEE) is SSAT’s flagship school improvement and planning tool. It is designed to support schools with reviewing their practice and planning for further development. It was written by the education team at SSAT with the support of a pilot group of schools from the Leading Edge network.

Improving Whole School Attendance and Punctuality

At SSAT we know from our conversations with school leaders that securing and maintaining high levels of attendance, whatever your context and no matter what the challenges, has to be tackled as a priority.

School Culture Audit

As the saying goes culture is “the way we do things around here”. No matter whether you are a high performing school or one seeking to implement improvement, understanding the culture and sub-cultures that exist is key to a successful future.

Race and Equalities Audit

Conduct a Race and Equalities Audit to help you gain deeper understanding of your school community and the next steps you can take together.

Parental Partnership Accreditation

This accreditation recognises the highly effective work that member schools do to engage and collaborate with parents and carers. It provides a national standard for schools to benchmark their practice against and national recognition of effective partnership work with parents and carers.

RACE Charter Mark

Race and Conscious Equality (RACE) Charter Mark is for schools wishing to demonstrate their commitment to action and improvement in relation to race equality in all aspects of their work, as educators, employers and community leaders.

Building the Capacity of Your Senior Leadership Team

Be strong, believe, be better
SSAT’s intensive package of training and coaching to support your senior leaders in working together as an effective and cohesive team.

School Improvement Consultancy

Working sensitively within your school’s own context we can review practice on a departmental or whole school level; quality assure your self-evaluation or provide training and development to ensure practice across your school is consistent and robust.

Training and support for your team

SSAT offers in-school support and consultancy to work with your team on identified development areas. Working sensitively within your school’s own context we can review practice on a departmental or whole school level; quality assure your self-evaluation or provide training and development to ensure practice across your school is consistent and robust.

All our consultants are highly experienced senior leaders and advisers with expertise in primary, secondary, post-16 and special education.

School improvement planning with SSAT

Wherever you are on your school improvement journey, SSAT can help you to identify focus areas and access the right tools, advice, resources and programmes for improvement.

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How do strong schools stay strong?

A report into how some of the most successful schools nationally achieve and sustain high performance in a range of contexts.

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