Our Professional Central Offer
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School Improvement Strategy
At the heart of our core offer to schools is access to a wide range of professional services which aim to enable school leaders to focus on their core purpose; aspiring to ensure that all pupils in our schools receive an ambitious high-quality Catholic curriculum. Pupils will leave our schools with a strong faith and the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a competitive world. We must continue to ask and challenge ourselves if we have given our pupils what they need to succeed in modern Britain and the wider world.
Directors at Emmaus CAT have agreed a central contribution for each school. The central contribution provides centralised services, adding capacity, enabling schools to raise educational standards and support with the delivery of great education.
Our School Improvement Strategy
School improvement is strongest when schools work together. This brings a sense of collaboration and constructive challenge; and summon concrete, positive change, when we work together. The Emmaus CAT structure, we believe, involves a much deeper, long-term commitment to schools, pupils and communities that face difficulties or challenges and will help us to keep improving our successful schools. At Emmaus CAT, we aspire to ensure that all pupils in our schools receive an ambitious high quality Catholic curriculum. This is driven by faith, a moral purpose, and a desire to enable social mobility and equality in educational opportunities. It is built on an honest, challenging, and open culture, partnership working and shared determination for success in every school.
The aim of our school improvement strategy is to outline how the Emmaus CAT Central Team and all stakeholders can work together to support all our schools to improve and change. Emmaus CAT has adopted a partnership approach to implementing this strategy with high levels of trust and coordination between the Central Team, the Emmaus Development Board, and school-based leaders. All stakeholders within Emmaus CAT play a crucial role in supporting their peers to improve standards and outcomes for pupils ensuring they access a broad and rich Catholic curriculum.
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Emmaus Institute of Professional Learning
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The Emmaus Institute of Professional Learning is dedicated to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence within the Emmaus Catholic Academy Trust (CAT). The institute serves as a comprehensive hub for professional development, offering a robust framework that integrates Continuous Professional Development (CPD), career advancement opportunities for staff, and initial teacher training.
By prioritising research-informed pedagogy, the institute ensures that all training and development initiatives are grounded in the latest educational research and best practices. This approach not only equips Emmaus CAT staff with effective teaching strategies, but also supports their professional growth and career progression within the CAT. Through collaborative learning experiences and mentorship, the Emmaus Institute empowers staff to enhance their skills, deepen their understanding of effective pedagogy, and ultimately improve pupil outcomes across our schools, all while embodying the values of humility, faithfulness, and service.
The institute is supported by the use of the Talent-Ed matrix, an online platform to support professional agency and enable Emmaus CAT staff to see their next career step. This platform intelligently signposts staff to relevant CPD, relevant to both their current and aspirational roles. Through this approach, we support staff to see their long-term career prospects, enabling them to see the opportunities of professional growth, in order for all staff to flourish with Emmaus CAT for many years.
Our full approach to professional development is outlined in our strategy document and covers a comprehensive offer, which is responsive to needs across Emmaus CAT schools.
Alongside our professional development offer, the institute also encompasses Emmaus CAT Initial Teacher Training (ITT), with Liverpool Hope University. Emmaus CAT ITT affords a number of development opportunities for staff. Both through undertaking the vital role of class-based mentors, and also for curriculum and professional studies delivery as an Emmaus CAT ITT Tutor, staff access their own development opportunities.
Acting as ITT mentors or curriculum tutors to deliver initial teacher training offers numerous benefits. Firstly, it provides experienced educators with the opportunity to deepen their own understanding of pedagogy and teaching practices through reflecting critically on their methods. Serving as a mentor fosters a sense of leadership and responsibility, empowering staff to shape the next generation of educators while promoting a collaborative culture within the school. Additionally, mentoring allows staff to stay connected with emerging educational research and innovative practices. Finally, this role contributes to a positive school environment by building strong relationships between experienced teachers and trainees, creating a supportive network that utlimately enhances pupil outcomes and strengthens the community’s commitment to the Catholic mission.
Our Guiding Principles
At Emmaus CAT, we passionately believe in schools having their own individuality underpinned by Guiding Principles and have developed a suite of guiding principles to support school leaders to deliver aligned autonomy in their schools. These guiding principles set the direction and scope for each area. Guiding principles are not exhaustive and should be used as the building blocks for each school’s autonomous approach. Guiding principles will be co-constructed throughout the academic year with input from headteachers and key school staff.
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