
The Family of Schools blog is a benefit of affiliation to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, and as an affiliate to SSAT, your school can access this fantastic online support tool. It is a regularly updated collection of short pieces about issues related to learning and teaching.


Designed for absolute beginners, this toolkit will enable you to download software that will support animation, film-making, audio and graphics in your classroom.

Designed for beginners, this easy to use toolkit is bursting with ideas for teachers seeking to introduce their pupils to digital art.


You specify the date and venue and we will bring a tailored workshop to you.


Information about the third cohort of the developing leaders programme for primary schools.

Over the past year through our lead practitioners we have developed and delivered three different fun packed enterprise programmes to year five and six local primary school pupils.

A cluster of schools in Monmouth worked together to develop a consistent behaviour policy across all phases. This led to huge improvements in behaviour at all ages.
103 schools from a diverse range of social, cultural and regional backgrounds were provided with ‘kick start’ funding to develop and deepen current practice, or engage with creative and innovative approaches to parental engagement.

Three Australian developing leaders talk about the impact of their recent study tour to England. In this lively article they discuss the differences between education in England and Australia, the lessons we can learn from each other and ideas for developing international links for their pupils.

Case study: encouraging parents to engage in school life and to change the perception that what happens in school is separate from what happens outside.
