Our Support

 

 How would your staff benefit from being part of Collective Vision Trust?

 

Headteachers

  • Members of the Executive Leadership of the Trust and are key stakeholders in driving the organisation forward
  • Having a support network on hand whenever you need it
  • Opportunity to develop new ideas and become responsible for driving new initiatives across the Trust schools – this is an excellent career enhancing opportunity that builds experience and opportunities that are impossible to get in a single school
  • Experience of working with a number of schools to develop higher levels of leadership
  • Renumeration opportunities
  • Building challenge from within
  • Working alongside other Headteachers no longer facing those difficult situations on your own

 

Senior Leaders

  • Work with colleagues in other schools to widen experience and opportunities for professional dialogue
  • Mentoring new leaders across the Trust
  • Further career opportunities – access to a wider network but still remain an integral part of your school
  • More systematic and effective professional development and leading CPD across schools

 

Middle Leaders

  • Work with a wider network of colleagues across the Trust – excellent first hand CPD
  • Understanding of effective practice and setting out clear expectations
  • Mentor and coach staff new to leadership roles
  • Team approach and support networks to develop leaders – an excellent mechanism for retention and building skills for internal promotions
  • Work in partnership to share expertise

 

Class Teachers

  • Better hands on CPD opportunities
  • Collaborate with wider range of staff across the Trust – peer to peer support
  • Practical support through all career stages leading to a happier and more stable staff.
  • Reduced stress levels leading to greater retention rates
  • Talent is nurtured to develop your own future leaders

 

Support Staff

  • Work in partnership across the Trust to reduce isolation
  • Better training opportunities – enhanced CPD
  • Opportunity to develop skills and lead areas of expertise across the Trust
  • Career development – building qualifications and train to teach opportunities

 

 

Why should you join our Trust?

We want you to

  • retain your autonomy as a headteacher
  • operate under your own governing body
  • keep your school identity to continue to offer the best education for your children
  • be a key decision maker in the Executive Leadership of the Trust which is extended to all Headteachers within the
  • be an integral part of a strong partnership
  • be part of a team of professionals
  • be supported with systems and procedures
  • continue to grow and flourish under your own unique leadership
  • share common goals and a shared vision

 

We want to

  • support you, your individual school and staff
  • share success and good practice
  • offer you what you need to drive up standards
  • work alongside you and your children
  • focus on helping to drive school improvement to the benefit of all
  • be flexible, motivational and critical so you can continue to lead the school in your unique leadership style
  • support you through Ofsted

 

It is our belief that we need to be right for you as much as you need to be right for us - your school should remain your school, however, we share our responsibility to provide the best education possible so that the Trust fulfils the promise of ‘preparing the children for the world around us.’

 

‘We want a Trust that builds opportunities for each individual school to be innovative and to prepare children for the future challenges that they will face.’

 

Our Multi-Academy Trust can offer support in the following areas:

Leadership: a shared responsibility

  • School improvement planning
  • Bespoke support packages
  • Cutting through unnecessary bureaucracy
  • Extensive Ofsted and HMI support
  • Safeguarding expertise
  • Union negotiation
  • Membership of the Confederation of Schools Trust
  • Head teacher performance management

 

Curriculum: a hands on approach

  • Core crucial knowledge curriculum
  • Specialist support and advise
  • CPD with individuals and groups of staff
  • Bespoke teaching and learning approache to support and/or develop staff
  • Developing individual staff and leaders
  • Develop leaders for the future
  • School-to-school enhanced networking support
  • ICT and cutting-edge technology

 

Financial: help and advice when needed

  • Central finance team with links in every school
  • Human resources and Legal Services
  • Legal and constitutional frameworks
  • Transferring existing assets and employees
  • Managing budgets
  • Financial planning
  • Governance audit
  • Headteachers able to concentrate on the children in their school

 

Building Regulations and Health and Safety

  • Property Management
  • DFE and EFA grant opportunities and applications
  • Health and Safety audits and advisory
  • Investment support for individual projects or emergencies

 

‘This list is not exhaustive and we will look to support all initiatives.’

 

Benefits of the Trust

  • Being a key part of a strong team with common values and ambitions
  • Better outcomes for children through mutual support
  • Strong curriculum advice and practice – a common core that is bespoke to the needs of your school
  • Monitoring and moderation of Standards
  • Bespoke development and CPD for staff at all levels
  • Peer networks
  • Administration support
  • Reducing bureaucracy
  • Centralised negotiations leading to better financial deals
  • Regular professional challenge and support
  • Tailored support for both new and experienced heads
  • Head Teacher’s PM

 

Service Level Agreements included

 

  • HR
  • Health and Safety
  • Governance
  • Legal
  • Occupational Health
  • Pay roll
  • Property Management
  • Free School Meal checking service
  • Admissions
  • VIP – education welfare services
  • Finance including auditors and internal scrutiny

 

 

 

 

 

The Process

Converting to an Academy and becoming part of a Trust is one of the biggest decisions that a school has to face in the 21st Century. Collective Vision Trust is committed to providing strategic direction for each school in the partnership.

 

Your school will no longer be part of a local authority and will have more autonomy as the funding will come directly from Central Government. The legal issues surrounding conversion are complex, however, the Trust will be able to support you through the process of conversion.

 

Likewise, schools who are already an academy but not part of a strong Trust are also welcome to become part of our group of schools.  We have worked closely with the DfE in the West Midlands to develop our Trust and would welcome other ‘single academy Trusts’ to join us and become part of a stronger Trust without losing the benefits already gained from academisation.