Developing People

As an ambitious and dynamic partnership that seeks to attract and retain the best staff at all levels, The Sandstone Trust offers its colleagues comprehensive professional development and support at all stages.

Professional Development at The Sandstone trust is bespoke to colleagues and context and is delivered as part of a planned progression route through our Trust. Colleagues can expect to learn from experience within and beyond the Trust with professional development that draws on in-house and external expertise.

Sandstone Trust schools aim to develop high quality, innovative and evidence-based pedagogy with our colleagues and to strengthen our practice with shared experiences and through professional learning communities and specialist network groups.

Our training offer blends face to face, online and asynchronous training opportunities in order to ensure well-being and work-life balance is always our focus.

Recruitment & Professional Development

Across the schools in the Trust, we offer the following:

• Co-ordinated ITT across the Trust; we have many years of experience in recruiting and training associate teachers in both primary and secondary phases
• MY New Term – a centralised Trust application platform
• New staff induction
• New staff buddy
• ECT programme
• Secondments
• Opportunities to shadow colleagues in other schools
• SSL training and deployment
• Professional Development programme in each school
• NPQs – we lead on the delivery of the suite of NPQs through Best Practice Network
• Bespoke Trust leadership programme for colleagues aspiring to middle leadership and senior leadership
• National College membership
• Chartered College membership
• Confederation of Schools trust membership
• Attendance at ResearchED, Festival of Education, Inspiring Leaders Conference