“New year, new job” – Meet Whole Education’s new Director of Secondary
Shonogh Pilgrim joined Whole Education in September 2021 as Director of Secondary having spent the last 7 years as the Headteacher of Ansford Academy.
What people had to say about ‘A Day with Alex Quigley’
Alex Quigley ran a day of sessions on vocabulary development, reading, writing and literacy across schools. Here's what you had to say.
Whole Education Annual Conference 12 “Leading Your Evolution with Purpose II” – save the date!
WE are excited to announce that the 12th Whole Education Annual Conference will be taking place in-person on 3rd February 2022.
How education can tackle the climate crisis…sustainably
WE hear from WWF-UK Education Manager Matt Larsen-Daw on how education can tackle the climate crisis…sustainably.
Ready to make a change on climate? If not this year, then when?
Back in May we announced that Whole Education is now working with a coalition of organisations to explore one big question: How do we enable and encourage school leaders to bring action on climate into their school? In June, we...
How can we encourage all schools to bring action on climate into their school?
Whole Education recently hosted its first Climate change event, bringing together schools in our network, partners in the Future Proofed Coalition and many other organisations who have a common goal.. Supporting our schools and teachers, to help our young people,...
How Windsor Academy Trust is leading the way for sustainability in schools
As we embark on our very first WE climate change event this week, we are delighted to hear from Windsor Academy Trust about their ambitious sustainability goals. Read on to find out about Windsor's work...
Increasing retention, knowledge and understanding with flipped learning
Jessica Shailer is a Year 1 Class Teacher at St. John Vianney Catholic Primary School and she shares her experience of increasing retention, knowledge and understanding with flipped learning.
What does the future of teaching look like?
On Wednesday 16th June, we were delighted to welcome Professor Guy Claxton, cognitive scientist and author, to lead an expert webinar. Here's our summary of the morning.
Lab Classrooms: Flipped learning in action
Ceri George, Head of Science at Wilmslow High School, shares her experience of using flipped learning.
Meet Whole Education’s new Chair of the Board and Director of Secondary
We are delighted to announce the following appointments to Whole Education: Philippa Cordingley, Chair (Designate) Shonogh Pilgrim, Director of Secondary (Designate) Philippa and Shonogh join us at a time of significant growth. Increasing numbers of schools, trusts and local authorities...
“There is no planet B”: Find out more about WE’s Climate Change project
A new Whole Education project... In the words of the late UN secretary Kofi Annan, "there is no Planet B". Whole Education believes that our schools and young people have a key role to play in tackling the climate crisis...
What opportunities can digital arts content provide to engage young people?
Since working together on the Flipped Arts project in 2017/2018, Whole Education and Curious Minds have been focused on the importance of engaging more young people in the arts, with the belief that digital content has a role to play...
How networks can bring about evolutionary change post-pandemic
Being part of a network has never been more important. All anniversaries bring with them a period of reflection. Markers in the sand, a timeframe to consider what has or has not changed. What is different for us and for...
How to support and celebrate neurodiversity within your school
It's Neurodiversity Celebration Week! Part of Whole Education's mission is an education system which enables all children to thrive and we're proud to be supporting SENCOs across the country to do exactly this with our SEND peer review project. If...
World Book Day 2021: Our top Whole Education based reads
Today is World Book Day, an opportunity for teachers and students alike to share their passion for reading. We hope that, despite the virtual circumstances, you've managed to have lots of fun celebrations within your schools and trusts. To mark...
Whole Education SEND: Empowering SENCOs through sustainable collaboration
Whole Education is first and foremost a network organisation; we believe that the expert knowledge to improve provision and outcomes for all young people exists within the sector and work with leaders at all levels to mobilise this knowledge. Since...
How can taking a child-centered approach to professional learning help reduce the number of preventable exclusions?
For the past six years, Whole Education has been a proud member of the vibrant and international Networks of Inquiry and Indigenous Education (NOIIE) community. At its core is Spirals of Inquiry; a child-centred professional learning framework that has had...
Measure what we value or value what we measure? A look at the future of assessment
Following the assessment fiasco that was 2020, Whole Education held a series of network summits to gather our collective thinking on what assessment could and should look like in our secondary schools. Could the events of 2020 offer an opportunity...
Accountability beyond Covid-19: WE position paper 4
Covid-19 has created an unusual hiatus in the school accountability agenda. OFSTED have had to adapt their approach and we have recently received guidance on the next phase of a ‘return to inspection’. What changes would you like to see...
Leading into the future: What can we learn from Apple?
In February 2020, Whole Education invited 20 trust leaders involved in the ‘Leading a whole education at trusts’ programme to engage in a four-day study visit and education meeting with Apple in San Francisco, USA. How can what they learned...
Whole Education’s Ofqual Consultation Response
Whole Education is a dynamic network of schools and partners who are united in their belief that all children and young people deserve a fully rounded education. They want more than just great exam results for students and pupils; they...
10 Helpful Resources for LGBTQ+ History Month 2021
A year on from last year’s LGBTQ+ History Month and things couldn’t feel more different. The impact of Covid-19 and ongoing lockdown is affecting us all in various ways and, despite the difficult context we find ourselves in, it’s important...
Personnel: well-being, support and retention: WE position paper 3
Covid-19 has created an unusual hiatus in the school accountability agenda. OFSTED have had to adapt their approach and we have recently received guidance on the next phase of a ‘return to inspection’. What changes would you like to see...
Exploring the curriculum, assessment and accountability landscape for 2021 and beyond
This series of three assessment masterclasses will explore how schools and their leaders might help students “make the grade” in 2021, but more importantly explore how they might contribute to defining the nature of accountability in the longer – “making...
Top Five takeaways from the first term of our Whole Education DEI and MHWB webinars
In September WE launched a free weekly opportunity to come together as a cross-phase network and to explore our whole school strategies for two areas which are putting additional pressure on the school system: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and...
Emerging Stronger from a Crisis: WE Inspire input from Lord Chris Holmes
“We are unquestionably under the test of our lives at the moment and you and your colleagues are at the sharp end of it. Be kind to you colleagues, but crucially, be kind to yourselves. Even in the darkest hour,...
There is still time to join the Lab Classrooms programme!
WE have compiled a series of case studies from the 2019/2020 Lab Classrooms Feedback & Critique and Metacognition strands.
What I am excited for this term
By Jo Corrigan, Director of Primary Since March 2020 when COVID-19 first began to have an impact on the education of children and young people throughout the world I have been proud to work alongside so many inspirational school leaders...
Whole Education is seeking a new Chair
An opportunity for an experienced and well connected educationalist with a commitment to whole education values to chair the WE board
