Working Partnership
Working in Partnership
For a number of years, we have been working collaboratively with a group of local schools to support and enhance the quality of education and different opportunities for our school community. This has included a range of different pupil projects, as well as our different staff teams coming together too.
School Improvement
Working collaboratively, our Winwick Staff Team have worked across a range of areas as part of the Grace group. This group has now strengthened its partnerships, with schools joining together as part of the Emmanuel Diocese of Liverpool Academy Trust (EDLAT), of which Winwick are proud to be a partner school with.
Headteachers, and other Senior Leaders from across the group of schools, have been working collaboratively on wider strategic approaches to School Improvement for a number of years with the aim of raising the quality of education and opportunities for the children and wider school communities across the group. There have also been opportunities for school Governors to collaborate too.
Our Subject Leaders meet termly to discuss a range of elements of their curriculum areas including opportunities to moderate pupil work, review the curriculum, share best practice, along with identifying shared project work that can benefit our group of schools within their curriculum areas.
In addition to this, our class teachers meet termly with their year group colleagues to moderate and agree on standards of children's writing as well as supporting with the writing target setting process. As part of this collaboration in English, we have also been working with The Literacy Company for the past 2 academic years, who have provided our teachers and teaching assistants with a range of training to support the teaching, learning, planning and assessment of writing.
As wider school groups, we have also held two shared INSET days across a number of academic years, providing our school staff with high quality CPD opportunities, including a conference linked to Flourishing Schools, led by Andy Wolfe (Executive Director of Education for the Church of England), and more recently Evidence Based Approaches to Behaviour, led by Tom Bennett (Lead Behaviour Advisor for the DfE).
ELDAT Parliament (Formally Grace Parliament)
Children from across the EDLAT group and partner schools have been working together for a number of academic years to develop their own 'Pupil Parliament', with their current focus being around the Environment, working on their Courageous Advocacy to build a vision and a project which explores what our children can do to support sustainability. Pupil Voice groups from each school have met at the SMILE Centre as a collective, which has also included guest speakers from our local council. The group have also held a meeting at the Town Hall, which was attended by the Mayor of Warrington; we are excited that this project is continuing as we move forwards.
Worship
To support our children's experience of worship, we have been working together as a group of local Church of England schools to give children the opportunity to share in worship and experience this within different school settings, as well as leading worship for other visiting schools. Children from Winwick have had the opportunity to visit other classrooms and take part in worship at other schools, in addition to different classes at Winwick leading their own class worships where children from other schools have attended. This has been such a positive experience for all involved, as children have loved the opportunity to take part in these different worships together.
MBITT - Mersey Borough ITT Partnership
Winwick CE Primary works in partnership with the Mersey Borough Initial Teacher Training Partnership to provide opportunities to host trainee teachers and support the next generation of teachers who will one day be working in schools applying their skills and pedagogy to enable children to flourish.
Our Headteacher, Mrs Duckett, also works alongside MBITT as a Quality Assurance Tutor.
Mersey Boroughs ITT Partnership is a school-centred provider of initial teacher training – a ‘SCITT’. The partnership is led by St Mary & St Paul’s CE Primary School (Prescot), who are a well-established provider of initial teacher training, and are based at St Mary & St Paul’s School which includes their training centre base. They work in partnership with schools from local authorities areas across Merseyside – Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Liverpool, Halton, Warrington and Wigan – to provide high quality graduate teacher training for prospective primary school teachers.
If you are interested in a future career in teaching and wish to find out more, please visit their website.
Mersey Borough Initial Teacher Training Partnership
Church Links
Winwick Heritage Weekend
St Oswald's Church Liverpool Cathedral
Community Links
Church & Local Community Links
St Oswald's ChurchDiocese of LiverpoolThe Church of England
Our feeder High School is Hope Academy, Newton which is a joint Church of England and Catholic High School. We are delighted to work alongside them to ensure the best possible learning opportunities for the children of Winwick and the surrounding areas from 4 years old-18 years old. The transition to Hope from Winwick CE ensures that the pupil's Christian development continues.
For further information about the school, please click on the link below.
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