CONNECT Collaborative – School to School Support
Moorhouse Academy is part of a group of schools who make up the CONNECT Collaborative.
The aims and objectives of the group are:
- work collaboratively and strategically to secure a high quality education for all young people in the areas served by the schools.
- improve the quality of education for young people in member schools;
- raise standards of achievement and accelerate progress by working together on teaching, learning, leadership and staff development;
- act as a catalyst for wider partnership and strategic alliances;
- provide access to affordable training and professional development opportunities;
- provide opportunities for economies of scale through commissioning of services and purchasing of resources;
- share expertise, best practice and resources to ensure best value for money;
- strengthen curriculum links to support the ongoing improvement of curriculum delivery and high standards;
- exploit fully opportunities for collaborative CPD to enable effective sharing of best practice and value for money;
- identify needs and best practice through the confidential sharing of data and information;
- work in partnership to support learning continuity, personnel development and family engagement across the local area;
- create a structure of mutual support by using the skills and expertise across the partnership which will support all of the Schools’ staff, students and families;
- improve teaching and learning;
- create a local led and delivered support system;
- support areas of weakness as identified collectively to raise standards;
- develop an agreed vision and strategy for the delivery of school improvement activity to the benefit of member Schools; and
- share examples of “best practice” across member Schools to support most effective governance.
School development plans are reviewed and re-aligned as appropriate.
