Education Consultants
Delivering continuous and substantial progress in all aspects of your School or Trust that is both Rapid and Sustained.
About Us
Our services are delivered by a team of highly skilled professionals in the field of education. Whether you have an upcoming inspection, seek to assess the impact of your curriculum, or wish to provide training for key individuals within your school/trust, we possess the expertise, experience, and capabilities to assist you.
Our team of consultants consists of accomplished leaders who possess the necessary skills, experience, and knowledge to support your school/trust in enhancing its capacity. By choosing Rapid and Sustained Ltd as your partner in school improvement, you can be confident that we will provide the right expert, precisely when you need them.
Rest assured, all our consultants undergo enhanced DBS checks, and we rigorously monitor the quality of their work to ensure that they uphold our exceptionally high standards when working with you and your school.
Our Services
For Schools / Trusts
Interim Leadership
Our specialist interim leadership solutions will achieve the results you need, when you need them.
Our fully vetted pool of SLT interim leaders can be ‘parachuted’ into a range of time-critical situations, preparing a school for an inspection, or turning around a school in need of significant improvement.
These leaders are available for set periods of time, or for the delivery of specific projects. Below are a few of the roles these individuals typically cover:
- Chief Executives
- Executive Headteachers
- Directors of Education
- Directors of School Improvement
- Headteachers
- Interim Executive Board Member
Curriculum Development
At Rapid and Sustained Ltd, we believe that meeting your pupils’ needs through a broad and challenging curriculum should be at the heart of what you do.
This requires middle and subject leaders to have the skills and knowledge to set develop a cohesive curriculum intent, provide support for staff to implement it consistently well and to monitor it regularly and accurately to check its impact.
Whether part of a one-off school review or as ongoing professional dialogue and support, we can work alongside you and your middle leaders to develop your curriculum. We can discuss curriculum planning and decision making with them and model effective practice for checking how well it’s working, as well as supporting with action planning for improvement.
Our three-stage model offers a fantastic foundation for curriculum development that will be adapted to your school’s specific needs and budget.
Leadership Coaching
Our coaching seeks to provide you with a regular opportunity to explore the issues of importance to you and your school. It aims to create a safe, confidential space where you can:
- Reflect upon and develop your leadership practice, your behaviours and beliefs
- Share your thoughts, worries and concerns
- Explore what you want out of life as a school leader
What to Expect
We know that you wouldn’t be where you are now if you didn’t have the capabilities to lead your school. That’s why we will never try to tell you how you should lead your school.
Instead, through our coaching processes, we seek to help you develop your own strategies for leading and succeeding as a school leader.
SIP Partnership
Our flexible packages can be as straightforward as a set number of support days per year, with the specific focus agreed upon before each visit. This aligns with our standard School Improvement Partner (SIP) package, which traditionally includes one visit per term. Some clients opt for our premium SIP package, entailing one visit per half-term, allowing for a termly visit from the same consultant while utilising the additional visit for specific needs like early years, pupil premium, literacy, or pastoral support.
For our multi-academy trust clients, we often agree on a predetermined number of support days per school, allowing each school to determine how those days are allocated. For instance, a trust may request a termly SIP visit for each of their schools, external support for the headteacher performance management process, and a thematic review tailored to individual school requirements. Alternatively, a client might have one school opting for a two-day review with a follow-up SIP day later in the year, while another school chooses two one-day review visits spread across the year.
- Standard SIP package with headteacher performance management (4 days)
- Premium SIP package - one visit per half-term (6 days)
- Standard SIP package, headteacher performance management, and thematic review (6 days)
- Ongoing support to school leadership, two days per month from September to July (22 days)
- A SIP visit includes up to five hours of on-site support, along with verbal feedback and a written report summarising the visit.
School Reviews
The key to continuous school improvement, wherever a school is on its journey, is the accurate identification of its strengths and areas for development. The most in-depth of all our external support , our rigorous developmental school reviews, do just that. We validate the accuracy of your self-evaluation, providing an accurate and detailed view of what is going well and what can be further strengthened. Delivered in a robust yet supportive way by our team of highly skilled and experienced consultants, this premium review aims to support you in your goal of building better outcomes for all.
So, what is the key to ensuring the above review works for your school? In a nutshell, personalisation. Perhaps you are running an outstanding school wanting to retain its rating or facing challenges heading up a school identified as requiring improvement. Or it could be that you are leading a multi- academy trust, with a host of different schools each requiring different levels of developmental support. Regardless of your needs, what we do is bespoke. This means that, while we use the current Ofsted framework as the backbone of this robust health check, the scope and intensity of our work is all customised and agreed with you in advance.
Headteacher Supervision
This year-long programme coaching programme will help headteachers develop their practice, problem-solving skills and explore how to overcome obstacles in a safe, and most importantly, confidential space.
Lead by a team of expert coaches, the programme will provide headteachers with the opportunity to:
- be in a safe and confidential space where the focus will be solely on them
- identify the barriers that are blocking them from realising their potential
- develop leadership skills, strategic working and resilience
Participants will be able select to explore the many aspects of the challenges they meet in their leadership role:
- working on problem solving for a specific issue
- focusing on developing more effective working relationships
- to soundboard SLT development priorities
- clarifying specific barriers and challenges in your context
- identifying next steps in a challenging situation
Aimed at headteachers in all phases, this programme run over one academic year and will consist of:
- a 90 minute on-line introductory session with your coach to establish the best way of working for you both to maximise the outcomes of the programme for you
- a further 5 x 90-minute online sessions, one each half term. The focus of each session will be chosen by the coachee
Training
Investment in continual professional development is a fundamental part of a school’s growth. Whether carried out in-school or at one of our national training events, our range of programmes combine expert advice with practical activities and have one overriding aim – to maximise school improvement.
As with our entire service suite, personalising our training days is the key to their successful implementation. Working with subject leaders, senior leaders, governors and anyone required to evaluate the quality of education, and personal development provision our expert facilitators are able to adapt support to meet the requirements of individual primary and secondary schools, multi-academy trusts or federations.
If you are interested in training to support the development of your staff, or have something specific in mind, don’t hesitate to contact us. A standard training day is 9am – 4pm for up to 30 people. These can be held on school grounds or at an external venue. We are experts at providing bespoke programmes to suit your needs.
Whether you are an individual or a group, please contact us today
Aimed at headteachers in all phases, this programme run over one academic year and will consist of:
Website Reviews
The website is a crucial starting point for anyone wanting to find out about your school – prospective parents as well as Ofsted inspectors. It is essential that all schools comply with the DFE’s requirements for what must be published on their websites.
Our standard website review has been enhanced to cover the same comprehensive compliance check and also include a narrative on readability, design and audience suitability.
What it does
Our review still provides a full report on the effectiveness of your website. Each statutory aspect will be evaluated in line with the most up-to-date legislation and our expert will undertake exactly the same checks as those carried out by an Ofsted Lead Inspector prior to an inspection. As well as checking whether statutory documents and information are on your website, policies and other documents will be scrutinised to ensure they are up to date. In addition, the report now includes information about the navigation and general website layout considering an audience of parents as well as inspectors. Our report will also provide a clear summary of areas for action as well as suggestions for improvements to enhance the information you are already providing
Aimed at headteachers in all phases, this programme run over one academic year and will consist of:
Bespoke Support
We are committed to supporting you in any way that we can. If none of the services listed meet your needs then please get in touch using the enquiry form and we will endeavour to create a bespoke package to help you make the Rapid and Sustained progress that you require.
Aimed at headteachers in all phases, this programme run over one academic year and will consist of:
Get In Touch
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Liam@rapidandsustained.com
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