Best Practice

Two examples of cross-phase collaboration

School improvement
Collaboration between primary and secondary schools can have a notable impact on key areas, such as assessment, numeracy and literacy and transition. Christopher Woolfrey looks at the work of two partnerships.

At the end of October, the Education Select Committee published a report on school partnerships and co-operation. The committee looked at how schools working together can contribute to the self-improving education system envisaged in the 2010 Schools White Paper. It found that co-operation between schools has become increasingly important, and can offer significant benefits. 

However, data from The Key suggests that collaboration may be less of a current focus for school leaders than for policy-makers. We’ve analysed how primary school leaders have used our website this term, and found that they have been 18 per cent less likely to look for information on collaboration than during the same period last year.

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