We know there is an overwhelming amount of work to do and information to receive at the moment and in recognition of that we are happy to extend the deadline to receive Action Plans from Consortia/Secondary Area Network Leads until Friday 9th October. Chairs should receive notification from Sophie Thompson today of their consortium/network allocation.

Consortia have freedom -within the '5 levers of recovery' (relationships, community, curriculum, metacognition, disadvantage) - to decide on the content of their plan and which partners/providers - if any - they work with. We would like to draw your attention, however, to a selection of programmes on offer from CUREE (the Centre for the use of Research and Evidence in Education). Some of you have previously with CUREE on a WCC 'closing the gap' project and will remember their focus on use evidence-based research, their information analysis, and their support with identifying effective strategies . CUREE are able to offer cpd support for consortia on coaching and mentoring for school improvement and staff wellbeing; increasing the impact of your CPD on staff and pupil learning; using Research Lesson Study (RLS) to close the gap and removing barriers to literacy. The packages are ready priced up according to number of schools. To find out more see here. For further information please contact bart.crisp@curee.co.uk or rebecca.reybould@curee.co.uk
We know that colleagues in Nuneaton schools are likely to be participating in one or all of the strands of the Nuneaton Education Alliance (the Thrive Approach, Talk for Reading and an upcoming maths strand). We appreciate that consortia in this area may choose to use some of their Recovery Fund to link to this work.

Heads Up 25 September 2020