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Activities

Our membership package is designed to support our partners in achieving excellence through collaboration, professional development, and access to expert resources. A variety of activities are available which have included over time: 

  • Free school to school support
  • Access to whole school reviews
  • Access to a leadership development programme
  • Free safeguarding review and audit
  • External advisor day to support performance management
  • External advisor leadership support days
  • Membership of school improvement hubs
  • Subsidised and supported access to the Enabling Leaders programme and the Bolton Leadership Framework
  • Free school licences to the World Education Summit
  • Subsidised places on ‘Aspiring Leaders’ programme
  • Subsidised places on Bolton’s ‘Into Deputy Headship’ programme
  • Subsidised places on Bolton’s ‘Into Headship’ programme
  • Subsidised access to the ‘Trauma Informed Schools’ programme
  • Subsidised places at the ‘Academy of Women’s Leadership’
  • Subsidised places with the ‘Brilliant Club’
  • Support with accreditation for the Inclusion Quality Mark (IQM)
  • Subsidised places on programme for the leaders of student agency in schools
  • Membership of a Behaviour Inclusion Partnership (BIP)
  • 2 x free places on ‘Adaptive Teaching Experience Day’
  • Stand out school visits locally
  • Bolton Headline Data Pack
  • Bolton Subjects Data Pack
  • Subsidised A Level ALPS Reports
  • Subsidised BTEC ALPS Reports
  • Free ALPS Connect
  • Places at the Bolton Learning Partnership Annual Conference
  • Free places at Bolton Summer Hub Conferences
  • Bolton Update Conferences: Curriculum, Finance, BTEC, Ofsted
  • Representation on borough wide stakeholder groups
  • Coordinated transition portal year 6 into year 7
  • Reduced rate for GL Assessment Products
  • Reduced rate for FFT
  • BLP Awarding Body Booklet
  • BLP website and resource area
  • Reduced rates with various national recruitment and supply agencies.

This extensive range of activities reflects our commitment to fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement across our schools and colleges. We have developed a series of case studies. For further information on the latest membership activities on offer please contact us.

Case study – Promoting Vocabulary Development

Working together to share ideas and best practice, members of our Teaching and Learning Hub have been developing ‘theories of action’ to raise standards in education.  With a focus on promoting the development of vocabulary, below are a series of case studies to demonstrate how our theories of action are put into practice.

Volunteer Reading Scheme

A volunteer reading scheme at Sharples School was implemented to address a reluctance to read, particularly amongst vulnerable groups; low reading ages in key stage 3 with a number of students requiring catch-up to their chronological age and a need to increase the awareness of reading as a skill for the whole curriculum, not only in English lessons.

The use of Accelerated Reader at key stage 3 was implemented with investment in books across the reading age spectrum in the school library, and the organisation of books into coloured categories which were linked to Accelerated Reader.

Alongside this, local volunteers were recruited to become official reading partners from organisations including the local Rotary Club. Cohorts of students were selected to take part and a timetable was produced of volunteer reader time in school.  Volunteers were given termly updates on the progress of students and an annual celebration event took place to thank and celebrate the progress of students.

The Impact

In Year 1 all students have made exceptional progress in their reading age against their chronological age with 90% of students in the cohort making more than 1 year reading age progress.  Alongside this, all selected students worked positively with their volunteer partner. The influence of a professional, external volunteer was exceptional as previously reluctant readers are now engaged and making progress in their reading.

To view more of our case studies please visit Case Studies.