The Great School Framework

The great school is committed to learning, working and growing with the wider educational community.

The school considers itself part of the local and global educational landscape, seeking to play an active role in system leadership and contributing to the outcomes and wellbeing of all young people, wherever they are educated.

Great schools constantly seek to play their part in society and be civic leaders, working with not just educational practitioners, but seeking to use best practice from all professions to build strong and improving local communities for the benefit of all.

The leaders of great schools ensure that their staff routinely challenge their own ways of working by engaging with practitioners beyond the school, identifying where outcomes and processes could be improved by working together.  There is clear evidence of engaging with subject specialists, researchers, policy makers and external experts in order to inform their own practice and to contribute to the work of the wider educational community.  Great school leaders seek opportunities to work closely with those in other disciplines, such as health and social services. They ensure that their collaboration with external agencies has a positive impact upon the lives of young people.

A great school enables young people to thrive in a global community. The school demonstrates its commitment to working with others, modelling effective partnership working to its pupils.  It encourages young people to develop collaborative skills, providing opportunities for pupils to work alongside, and learn with and from, young people from other schools locally, nationally and internationally, whether that be face to face or by using communication technologies.