St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School

We are working closely with St Patrick and St Edmund's, one of our feeder Catholic Primary Schools. As part of the Flourishing MAT framework, all Catholic schools in our region have been asked to increase working in partnership, to enhance the quality of provision whilst also exploring financial savings.

Several staff from Saint John Wall are helping with leadership, subject specialist teaching, ICT and finance support for St Patrick and St Edmund's. We are seeing many benefits for both pupils and staff, with shared staff training sessions, collaboration on curriculum development, and sharing reading strategies. 

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St Edmund's Catholic Primary School

Birmingham Diocesan Education Service (BDES)
BDES supports all Catholic Primary and Secondary Schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham. Mr Lloyd-Price in his role as Person in Charge of Catholic Life (PICCL) and Head of RE works closely with Richard Smith, in his role as Secondary RE Advisor. There are regular partnership meetings covering both Catholic Life and RE. These sessions allow PICCLs and Head of Departments to meet and share good practice, resources and ideas. These meetings often lead to new relationships forming between local Catholic schools to further strengthen the Catholic education offer to the children of Birmingham. BDES also provide the school with advice and guidance regarding governance, premises, policies, finance and other matters linked to our Catholic School status.

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Titan
Membership of Titan provides Senior and Middle leaders with networking opportunities. Titan also co-ordinate the local Sharing Panel with the aim of reducing exclusions amongst our schools. Titan helped provide the school with additional technology devices during the pandemic and they organise a variety of enrichment opportunities for pupils such as careers and STEM events. Titan worked closely with us to co-ordinate the DLP bids and they are responsive to the needs of pupils and staff, for example: arranging collaborative meetings for Headteachers to discuss covid guidance, and liaising with the violence reduction unit in response to issues in the local community. Recently Titan have enabled us to join the Schools4Inclusion international project and they run an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion group which we participate in.  Quote: "As a member of Titan Partnership, St John Wall are part of a network of schools, colleges and universities exceptional in their commitment to making a real difference to the lives of children and young people in Birmingham."
Quote: "The Titan Partnership brings schools in the north west of the city together to collaborate in supporting vulnerable children through the Sharing Panel. The Panel members work closely to place and support pupils who need an opportunity to fulfil their potential in a new environment. The NW Sharing Panel successfully places many vulnerable pupils every year."

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IFS
IFS is a multinational enterprise software company headquartered in Sweden. The company develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world. IFS sponsors the Computing department at Saint John Wall. Doing so has allowed the school to have a newly refurbished computer lab along with enabling the school to run the Computer Science GCSE qualification. The aim of the project is to provide pupils with the support and guidance needed to follow a career in software development and become the next generation of programmers.

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ITTs and ECTs
We work with various ITT providers to train new teachers. These providers include: Teach Central, Future Teaching Scholars, Birmingham City University, Bishop Challoner Training School Alliance, University of Birmingham, Titan, Newman University, South Birmingham SCITT and Teach First. Quote from our Teach First Development Lead: "The pupils and staff made a really good impression on me.  I have never visited or worked in a school in your area before, I was really impressed by the behaviour and respect demonstrated by the pupils I saw in the three lessons I observed. They were calm and well behaved on entering their lessons – they were focused and engaged in their learning – and it was so positive to see the Teach First Year 2 trainees being able to enjoy their teaching and relationships with their classes. From the staff in reception, the staff who guided me around the site and to the staff I met in the staff room and in the classrooms – everyone was very friendly and welcoming."
We also work with our local teaching school hub- Arthur Terry to fulfil our statutory induction requirements. They work with the Education Development Trust to deliver the Full Induction Programme to our Early Career Teachers (ECTs). Arthur Terry is also our Appropriate Body for the registration, monitoring and assessment of ECTs in their first and second year of induction.

Brilliant Club
The Brilliant Club deliver The Scholars Programme to small groups of our Year 8 learners. On the programme, our learners work with a university researcher to give them experience of what it's like to study at university and develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence.

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Ten Ten
Ten Ten is a Catholic organisation created to support schools in their delivery of their Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) curriculum. A Ten Ten subscription provides schools with resources to help school communities grow in faith, love, understanding and compassion. Ten Ten creates a wide-range of unique media-rich programmes and resources, inspired by the Christian faith.

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Education Staff Wellbeing Charter

We feel it is vital that every member of staff feels valued, supported, and motivated as they live out their vocation to serve and teach the children and young people at Saint John Wall Catholic School. We recognise that our staff are a valuable and precious resource and want every member of staff at Saint John Wall Catholic School to thrive knowing that they will be well supported. Our school has signed up to the DfE's Education Staff Wellbeing Charter to show our ongoing commitment to workload and wellbeing.

National School Breakfast Programme

We participate in the National School Breakfast Programme and offer free breakfast bagels to all pupils who would like them before school begins, from 8.20am in the morning. 

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Think for the Future

This is a social enterprise organisation that partners with Saint John Wall Catholic School to deliver structured sessions which are proven to have a positive and measurable impact on engagement in learning. Our school is allocated a mentor who runs group based mentoring sessions using a highly-structured curriculum of over 200 interactive sessions.

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School Games

The School Games is a programme which puts physical activity and school sport at the heart of schools, providing young people with the opportunity to learn through competition to achieve their personal best.

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Trent and Tame Language Network

The Trent and Tame Language Network serves schools in Birmingham, Stoke and Staffordshire. The name derives from the two rivers that cross our geographical area. In the same way that the Trent and Tame rivers merge together, so do the vision and values of Language Teaching and Learning at the two co-lead schools, Arthur Terry School and Painsley Catholic College.

The Trent and Tame Language Network are committed to improving the perception and performance of language learning across our region. Through support, training and system leadership, they will promote quality learning of languages, including home, heritage and community languages.  Whilst their aims align with those of NCLE, The Trent and Tame Language Network will also support schools in our area to explore and develop their language provision in two core areas.

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Teaching Times: Raising Attainment with Wellbeing

The 'Raising Attainment with Wellbeing' award aims to further develop an inclusive learning environment that supports and nurtures the highest possible levels of emotional wellbeing, accelerating progress and securing better personal outcomes.

We worked with a coach from Teaching Times to complete a 'needs analysis' and act on areas identified for development. As a school we were able to demonstrate our progress and were awarded 'gold' for our commitment to both pupil and staff wellbeing. Comments from the company director and our coach included: 

“Incredibly high importance and attention is given to wellbeing at Saint John Wall Catholic School”.

“I believe this school is an excellent example of an educational setting being a real champion of wellbeing. They fully deserve a Gold Award”.