School Improvement Fund bid successful

We're delighted to let you know that the collaborative bid from Warwickshire Local Authority and Warwickshire's Teaching Schools to the DfE Strategic Improvement Fund has been successful.  Just under £500,000 has been awarded to support school improvement activity in identified primary and secondary schools across the county.

The funding will challenge the underachievement of disadvantaged pupils through three specific areas:

• improving the reading skills of boys;
• maths problem solving and;
• developing leadership and governance.

Projects will be starting after half term and run until summer 2019 with activity led by Teaching Schools.

Margot Brown, former Headteacher at Priors Field Primary School in Kenilworth, has been appointed to co-ordinate the overall project and will be based at the Local Authority.

We would like to thank all of the schools that supported the writing of the bid and your prompt responses to requests for information.

More information will be shared in due course.