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Hyde Technology School was awarded the 'Leading Edge' status in Septemeber 2004 and is one of only three schools in Manchester and 204 schools nationally to have been awarded this status.

 

Hyde Technology School is proud to be part of the Leading Edge Partnership programme. This recognises both the quest for high standards in our school and our commitment to develop further opportunities for advancing teaching and learning. Leading Edge Partnerships are about a way of working between schools, looking to improve and learn from others so that all pupils realise their full potential.

 

Information:
What is the Leading Edge Partnership programme?
The Leading Edge Partnership programme supports school partnerships that inspire, design, test and adapt professional practice to increase the capacity for teacher and pupil learning. It is about a way of schools in England working together to solve learning challenges and to develop practices that raise the attainment of particular pupils and schools. It aims to disseminate successful solutions and practices to contribute to system wide reform.

 

What does the Leading Edge Partnership programme mean?
For pupils:
Raised attainment resulting from teachers working together to develop innovative solutions to specific learning challenges
For practitioners:
A means of advancing teaching and learning through school partnership, to energise schools and their staff. Providing further opportunities for practitioners to develop their expertise and effect change, and encouraging learning between schools as a way of working.
For schools:
Promoting a way of schools working together, always looking to improve and learn from others. Recognising the commitment of schools to raise standards, to foster a sense of pride in pupils and parents.

 

How does it work?
The programme consists of local partnerships of schools spread across England, linked by the common purpose of finding classroom-based solutions to the most intractable learning challenges and sharing these nationally. Practitioners, schools and partnerships are all enabled to work together and learn from each other.

 

Why is this important?
The biggest challenge our education system faces is the disproportionate underachievement of particular groups of pupils and the relative underperformance of particular schools. The programme is a route towards giving practitioners the opportunity to put the best informed professionalism into practice and thereby give all secondary age pupils the best possible support for their learning.

 

What does the programme hope to achieve?
The programme aims to accelerate the pace of change and to promote system wide innovation and transformation that is driven by the teaching profession, leading to a demonstrable rise in standards.

How does the Leading Edge Partnership programme differ from others?
Leading Edge Partnerships are about a way of schools working together to solve learning challenges and raise attainment for particular groups of pupils in secondary schools. Other programmes provide for types of school with their own distinct identity or set of challenges. Leading Edge Partnerships work alongside those other programmes to develop and model ideas and professional practice to increase the pace of learning for practitioners and pupils.

 

What is the status of schools in the programme?
Leading Edge Partnerships are about a way of working between schools, not a status for any one school. All Leading Edge Partnership schools are committed to working with and learning from others in order to advance teaching. This will enable schools to respond more effectively to diverse learning needs and ensure that all pupils realise their full potential.

 

Which schools are involved?
The Leading Edge Partnership programme supports schools looking to raise standards for particular groups of pupils and to support under performing schools in the first instance. Lead partners, all of which are secondary schools, are those who have submitted Leading Edge Partnership plans agreed with other local schools and met key performance criteria. There are 103 partnerships in the first cohort of the programme and the second cohort is in the process of formation with 101 partnerships.

 

What role does the Leading Edge Partnership programme Steering Group play?
The Leading Edge Partnership programme Steering Group is the key interface between the Government and practitioners and is instrumental in setting the direction of the programme. Its aim is to influence policy and effect change nationally. The role of the Steering Group is to support, promote and co-ordinate the work of Leading Edge Partnerships across the country and to develop strategies for communications, evaluation and knowledge transfer. The Steering Group currently has 15 members, 12 of whom are practitioners, ranging from NQTs to head teachers.

For more information on the Leading Edge Partnership Programme visit:

 

www.standards.dfes.
gov.uk/leadingedge