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
Research in the classroom: how a participant conducted a metacognition action research project in WE Lab Classrooms (part 2)
Benjamin Strawbridge led Sawtry Village Academy's participation in WE Lab Classrooms. The programme supports teachers to trial 2-for-1 teaching practices from the EEF toolkit. Here he reflects in detail on his metacognition action research cycle.
A Christmas letter From Whole Education
A letter from the WE team to network schools and trusts: thank you for all your amazing and inspirational collaboration through such a difficult year.
What’s next for assessment? Finding a balanced solution for summer 2021: WE position paper 2
Discover trust leaders' perspectives on what's next for assessment. This position paper aims to stimulate reflection and conversation about what assessment could look like in summer 2021.
WATCH: Intro to WE – Providing a whole education in primary schools through collaboration
WE asked four current primary leaders in the network to tell us about the key benefits of WE membership. How has collaborating with the WE network nationally benefited their school?
The benefits of a collaborative approach to improving SEND provision: learning from our WE SEND programme in Bury
The WE SEND programme places collaboration at the heart of SEND provision by connecting schools in a locality to review and develop practice. We are proud to share learnings from the one region's involvement in WE SEND.
Whole Education Headspace Event with Mary Myatt – What you said
For our Autumn Headspace event WE were joined by Mary Myatt for an entire morning. The event provided space for leaders to reflect on their leadership of a whole education curriculum. Discover what you said.
Research in the classroom: how a participant conducted a metacognition action research project in WE Lab Classrooms (part 1)
Benjamin Strawbridge led Sawtry Village Academy's participation in WE Lab Classrooms. The programme supports teachers to trial 2-for-1 teaching practices from the EEF toolkit. Here he reflects in detail on his metacognition action research cycle.
Blended learning beyond Covid – the future of online learning: WE position paper 1
Schools and Trusts have adapted brilliantly to ensure continuity of learning through online and remote learning provision. This position paper aims to stimulate reflection and conversation about the role blended learning could play beyond Covid.
How Oakfield have adapted their curriculum for a successful return to school during the ‘new normal’
Schools in the WE network have been sharing how they have been adapting to the 'new normal'. WE asked Oakfield High School to share how they had created a curriculum to 'support a successful return to school for everyone'.
Whole Education ‘Words For All’ launch – What you said
Last week, Whole Education launched 'Words for all', co-constructed with leaders in Bolton over a multi-year pilot. This collaborative approach builds local capacity, expertise and solutions to close the vocabulary gap.
Leading a Whole Education at primary – what you said
Despite all of the challenges being faced by schools it was great to see large numbers of primary leaders at our national launch of 'Leading a whole education - primary'. Discover what participants thought of the day.
Three WE speakers at Values-Based Education conference
The Values-Based Education conference on Friday, 16th October, features three workshops from members of the Whole Education team.
