The National Education Trust is an independent charitable foundation dedicated to the promotion and sharing of excellent practice and innovation in education.

We harness our extensive national and international experience to bring about improvements for learners, from early years onwards.

We assist education leaders and practitioners in sustaining success and tackling underperformance.

The Trust’s approach to achieving its aims is rooted in four key strands.

NATIONAL RESOURCE: Developing a national resource of excellent practice and powerful initiatives in early years’ settings, schools and colleges. Our seminar programme and advocacy centres promote and share best practice and provide innovative solutions to many of the challenges facing our education system.

INDEPENDENT SERVICES: Leading high quality school, college and setting reviews to provide excellent school development. We offer innovative, personalised training for headteachers, teachers and governors which has a proven track record of supporting sustainable, values driven improvement.

ASPIRE & INSPIRE: ‘chartermarked’ projects for children and young people which inspire and help them to learn. The projects are evidence based and underpinned by professional development for practitioners and leaders.

POLICY & RESEARCH: Influencing stakeholders and policy-makers to shape educational provision, locally and nationally. We encourage debate by providing a platform for, and contributing to critical study of the key issues in education today and tomorrow. We do this through our events programme, our website and our Counterblasts series.

Our work influences national policy and practice. We have worked with other major education organisations, several thousand school leaders and classroom practitioners across our aspire and inspire, national resource and independent services strands. The National Education Trust continues to bring people together, shares what works, provides sustainable improvement for education leaders, and ensures better outcomes for all learners.

We believe in:

the primacy of proven best practice combined with innovation

the power of collaborative, peer-to-peer working

the need for an independent, non-profit perspective

the importance of demanding but constructive challenge

the effectiveness of listening to learners

Roy Blatchford (HMI)Director

About NET

Email: Office@nationaleducationtrust.net Website: www.nationaleducationtrust.net • Telephone: 0207 702 0707

Reg. Charity: 1112893 / Company number: 5603073Registered office: 1st Floor, International House, 1 St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1TW

The National Education Trust has a great pedigree in delivering some of the most successful training in the UK and around the world. Focusing on issues that really matter to schools like raising achievement in Mathematics and teaching students where English is an additional language, the courses are frequently over-subscribed.

These training resources evolved from the NET training and allow you to deliver short in-service training in your school or cluster.

Benefits

Tried and tested materials, so you know they will work in your school.

An inexpensive approach to CPD to save your budgets.

Focusing on issues that will make a difference to your performance by raising attainment and giving you better preparation for Ofsted.

Written and published by experts in their field, including policy advisers and Ofsted Inspectors so you know you are getting up to date advice.

Coming Soon

Enhancing Achievement for Young Bilingual Learners 96 pagesA4 £35 (£40 as CD-ROM)

Available as Printed Book and CD-ROM

Based on research projects in Newham and Sheffield.

Provides an audit tool to help those working with children from bilingual groups.

A summary of the research around bilingual learners.

Practical advice for supporting children with English as a second language.

Early Years Matters Project Pack 48 pagesA4 £45 (Includes a CD-ROM with example activities)

Resources from NET’s Early Years Matter programme, sponsored by the DfE.

Practical element to the project pack so you know it will work in your setting.

Written in a simple style so everyone in a setting can get started.

Training Resources

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Counterblasts

Sparkling Classrooms Roy Blatchford32 pages / £1.95 each£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

Inspiring teaching from around the world. Includes an introduction to Blink© method of school review.

Assessing AssessmentTony Ashmore & Malcolm Trobe32 pages / £1.95 each£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

A fresh look at the purpose of assessment from a policy leader’s viewpoint. Will support any schools reviewing their assessment system.

Counterblasts are NET’s series of booklets designed to get senior leaders, governors and teachers thinking about their schools.

£15(10 copies)

£15(10 copies)

£15(10 copies)

£15(10 copies)

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Academic-Vocational ApartheidRoy Blatchford32 pages / £1.95 each£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

Why is it that the UK is so focused on academic success at the expense of real world skills? NET’s Director takes a different view.

Shouldn’t Ofsted be Helping Us to Improve our Schools?Geoff Barton32 pages / £1.95 each£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

A critique of Ofsted that includes some great suggestions for how the body could be re-organised. A model for whole-school improvement.

Challenging the Way We Govern Our SchoolsRoy Evans32 pages / £1.95 each£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

Written by an experienced chair of several governing bodies, this book describes a new methodology for governing in the 21st Century.

Desperately Seeking our DNA

Bernard Trafford32 pages£15 for a pack of 10£35 for a pack of 25

A guide to best practice between state and private education. Includes practical examples of where this works.

Written by experienced teachers and inspectors, the series covers everything from assessment to vocational education and governing.

A must for any head or aspiring head.

All Counterblasts are keenly priced and easy to access.

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NET Senior Leader Publications are aimed at Senior Managers or those who aspire to become part of a school’s leadership team.

Written by experts the resources cover a wide range of subjects and offer a ‘deeper’ understanding of issues such as:

Writing Governors How to sustain success

Made up of expert-written advice and guidance as well as results from extensive field work in schools these resources allow you to focus on an issue in depth and build a strong understanding of the impact on your school.

Essential reading for anyone in a SLT or those who aspire to those roles.

Who governs our schools?

56 pages / A5 £9.95

Recently updated to include chapters on Free Schools and Academies. A manifesto for improved governance of schools in the UK. Essential training for governors. Useful glossary for all new and experienced governors. How to get the best out of IEBs (Interim Executive Boards)

An overview of writing in Years 5-8

72 pages / A4 £15 (£19.55 as CD-ROM)

Available as Printed Book and CD-ROM

Practical advice on how to improve writing in late Primary. Recently updated to include support for Year 7 and 8 too. Advice on how to prepare a Long Term Literacy Plan. Many examples of writing of different text types – so you can compare your students to specific levels. Support for APP in Writing

Sustaining Success “Good to Great”

64 pages / A4 £14 (£17.95 as CD-ROM)

Available as Printed Book and CD-ROM

Includes advice on how to move a school from ‘Good’ to ‘Great’. How to lead an internal inspection. How to get to hard to reach parents and building strong community cohesion at your school. An invaluable pre-inspection briefing document will support all staff as they prepare for Ofsted.

Senior Leaders Publications

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NET Training CoursesThe Trust has a great track record of providing high quality consultancy for excellent school development. We offer innovative, personalised training for headteachers, teachers and governors which has a proven track record of supporting sustainable, values driven improvement.

Sustaining SuccessSustaining Success works with a group of schools to gain a deep understanding of what underpins their successes.The course seeks to ensure that these successes are embedded and developed. Senior leaders consider and visit cutting edge practice, which will help to sustain their own schools’ performance.

One day course is open for up to 14 heads / school leaders and is available for Primary, Secondary or Post 16. £900 per delegate.

‘I think I speak for us all when I say that the cluster has been really beneficial in driving our schools forward; visits to schools have had huge impact as have our discussions regarding expectations and standards.’ Redbridge Headteacher

Maths Counts!A one day course which explores ways of achieving outstanding progress in Maths. The day has been designed to include the journey of Maths in KS2, practical problem solving and investigative approaches.

For Maths coordinators, KS2 teachers and senior leaders. Maximum 25 people, £125 per Person, including refreshments.

‘Fantastic and inspiring.’ Birmingham Headteacher

Sparkling ClassroomsSparkling Classrooms is a one-day course to help you create outstanding lessons. Designed for teachers and leaders in primary schools, it is based on Roy Blatchford’s work in schools and classrooms nationally and internationally.

One Day course for senior leaders and teachers, maximum 25 people. £95 per person, including refreshments.

BlinkA Blink is a one-day review, which creates an intensive focus on key aspects of the school or college, negotiated with leaders and managers prior to the visit. The focus of the day can be on anything from prepraring for Ofsted to raising attainment to curriculum innovation, from gifted and talented pupils to EAL, from sparkling classrooms to middle leadership.

‘Despite the hard facts that we uncovered, the day succeeded in its objective – I’d recognized we had lost our edge. The day and your report will help get us back on track, as a matter of urgency.’ Bristol Headteacher

See www.nationaleducationtrust.net/SchoolImprovementServices_00.php for dates, venues and times. For costs and further details call 0207 702 0707 or email director@nationaleducationtrust.net

Seminars and Events National Education Trust seminars are usually held in early years’ centres, schools, colleges and universities, as appropriate, so that part of the day can be spent observing students and staff at work. NET events incur no charges; those held in partnership with other organisations sometimes do.

For details of our forthcoming events please visit our website: www.nationaleducationtrust.net

‘Really enjoyed the entire morning and all contributors. I came for inspiration for a new school opening later this year and found lots.’ Bedfordshire Head

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