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The Flying High Trust is a partnership of primary schools within the East Midlands that places children at the heart of every decision and aims for our schools to become the best in the universe through collaboration, support and accountability.
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The Trust was recently awarded the coveted status of ‘Teaching School Hub’ by the Department for Education.
The new hubs will create a countrywide network of 87 centres of excellence for teacher training and development, each chosen for their ‘high quality, evidence-based professional development to school leaders and teachers’. The Flying High Teaching School Hub will be responsible for its own designated area covering 282 schools in its locality. |
Meet your Hosts
Chris Wheatley Founding Member of the Flying High Partnership and Chief Executive Officer, Chris provides vision, strategic direction and innovation as well as ensuring all Flying High Partnership schools continually strive for excellence. |
Paul Goodman Deputy CEO of the Flying High Partnership, Paul is committed to working to deliver the vision of the partnership, creating the best schools in the universe. |
Claire Stirland Director of Education for Flying High Trust, Claire strives to give every child the best education and opportunities by instilling in every child the belief that they can achieve whatever they set their mind to. |
Nick Layfield As Operations Manager for Flying High Trust, Nick looks after conversion of new schools, estates, health and safety, ICT and marketing. Nick is passionate about ensuring children receive the very best experiences and opportunities. |
Tom Isherwood As Lead Practitioner for maths, Tom has responsibility for developing numeracy across the trust which involves, amongst many other things, delivering on the SCITT taught programme and facilitating the numeracy network meetings. Tom is mastery lead for the East Midlands West Maths Hub and whatever time he has left is spent doing what he loves, teaching maths! |
Cath Wilkes As the English Lead Practitioner for the Flying High Partnership, Cath works across Trust schools alongside English subject leaders. She runs the English Networks across both Trust and Alliance schools, keeping schools abreast of the latest national messages and also sharing the excellent practice that goes on in our schools. Cath also runs the English section of the SCITT programme. |
Carl Pattison As a former Headteacher, Carl now coordinates the Flying High English Hub, delivering CPD and focused support to develop English across the region, initially focussing on Phonics. |
