About our Training
About our Training
DDAT provides a wealth of training and CPD opportunities for its staff. Training is carefully calendared to meet the needs of schools. Training includes curriculum specific areas, training on aspects of the co-constructed Trust-wide strategies and training for the Local Academy Committee members. Each term all DDAT Headteacher’s come together for a briefing where the Trust invites schools to share good practice, contribute to school development priorities and receive key updates.
Every week the School Improvement Team publishes a newsletter to all Headteachers sharing updates and providing links to latest news and research.
Who organises our training?
We have a large central team that are heavily engaged with our schools. Visiting and working with them on a regular basis means that we have an excellent overview of the needs of each individual school and hub. We use this intelligence to plan our CPD calendar – to offer whole Trust training but also bespoke individual school training. The training is organised by Senior School Improvement Officers.
Each Department – Operations, HR, Finance, School Improvement and Governance meet regularly to discuss each school in detail. Through these meetings, training needs are identified and planned; consideration is given to who is best placed, within the central team, to plan and deliver training.
Who provides/leads the training?
We have built our central team over the years ensuring that we have the right skills set to be able to offer the very best training offer to our schools. We have personnel who have a working knowledge of the Ofsted framework, and expertise in all areas of school improvement and central team functions. The calibre of the central team is immense. From time to time we will also invite key experts in key areas to supplement our training offer to schools.
We now have 33 schools within the Trust, some of which have been part of our family for several years. This has given us lots of time and opportunity to ‘talent spot’. Therefore, the experts from within and across our schools also lead and facilitate training alongside members from the central team. Click here to view our training events and then click on an individual event you will be able to see who from the central team and who from within one of our DDAT schools is leading/delivering the training.
