Whole 27th June 2019

Education Stamford Court, University of Leicester

Summer Conference
and Celebration Event
Recognising and celebrating schools
delivering a high-quality whole education

“An opportunity to reflect

on the opportunities we
provide children beyond
just the national curriculum”
Registration 9:30 // Conference 10:00-17:00 //
Celebration drinks and keynote 17:30-19:30
Why attend?
Our summer conference is a celebration of great practice, designed to help schools
learn from each other on how to confidently deliver a high quality ‘whole education’
in your context.

You will choose from a huge range of sessions from schools in the network that are
successfully innovating to provide a whole education for all.

The Summer Conference will also provide you with a valuable opportunity to learn
more about how to make the most of our core offer programmes. These include:

Leading a Whole Education for senior leaders focuses on leading, managing and
effectively implementing curriculum change- relevant to, but not bound by, Ofsted’s
intent, implementation and impact framework.

WE Lab Classrooms helps teachers embed effective two-for-one teaching

strategies that improve outcomes while developing wider life skills, like
metacognition, oracy and collaborative learning.

Stimulating opening panel with brave school

leaders committed to a whole education

Breakouts to hear about innovative practice at

14 primary and 14 secondary

Celebrate outstanding practice from the

year including an exhibition of pilot progress

Inspirational keynote from Professor Mick

Waters on the need for a whole education
 Agenda
“Time to think and reflect, recharging
determination to be bold and grasp
opportunities. A fantastic opportunity to share
relevant, pragmatic and inspirational practice!”

9:30 Registration, networking and coffee

10:00 Introduction and framing for the day

10:15 Panel: brave and inspiring leadership of a

whole education in schools and trusts

11:00 Break

11:20 Inspirational school breakouts (2 x 45 min)

Learn about specific areas of high-quality Early evening keynote
practice that schools are using to confidently
and effectively deliver a whole education 17:45-18:30
across WE’s national network.
Choose 2 school breakouts

12:50 Lunch

13:45 Inspirational school breakouts (2 x 45 min)

Choose a further 2 school breakout sessions
15:35 WE programme sessions
See back page for further information
17:00 WE Lab Classrooms exhibition
17:45 Keynote speech from Mick Waters
18:30 Drinks reception and refreshments
19:30 Close
Professor Mick Waters will give a
keynote drawing on his decades of
experience in education. He will
share inspirational thoughts on why
a whole education is more important
than ever, and what schools can do in
the current climate.
Inspirational primaries
30 innovative schools will host 45 minute breakout sessions on how
they are delivering a high-quality, whole education.
Using high-quality
project-based learning
and assessment to develop
knowledge and skills
Using collaborative
learning to improve
outcomes and develop
wider life skills
Building an inclusive
culture through
restorative practices to
support children to thrive
Rich primary arts provision
to support strong,
independent learners
A ‘team teach’ approach to
offer high-quality CPD and
support sustained school
improvement
Discover how a large primary school has successfully
implemented high-quality project-based learning that
develops deep knowledge and wider life skills, using
Bloom’s Solo Taxonomy and an integrated approach to
assessment.
Find out how a research school has taken an evidence-
based approach to collaborative learning. Using mixed
attainment teams of 4 across the whole school they
have improved outcomes while developing wider skills
like collaboration and teamwork.
Find out how one school uses restorative
conversations, and an explicit focus on metacognitive
skills, to tackle the costs of exclusion. Their Rounded
and Grounded framework and relationships policy
draw on attachment-based parenting theory to create
an environment where all can thrive.
Learn how one school uses rich, cross-curricula arts
provision to drive a Whole Education entitlement
and create strong, independent and creative learners.
Their chosen approach uses a focus on arts subjects in
primary as a way of developing wider life skills.
Explore how teachers in this primary support
and evaluate each others practice to accelerate
progress. Ofsted has commended their team teach
approach where ‘staff take responsibility for school’s
improvement, middle leaders feel empowered to make
change and evaluate the impact of their work.’
Inspirational primaries
You can attend four sessions. Below are some of the schools and
practice that you can learn about on the day.

Effective abandonment Discover how one primary school developed a broad,

balanced and active curriculum by raising the profile
and redeploying resources of subject leaders and facilitating a reduced staff
for a rounded curriculum workload.

Values-led leadership to Find out how a large, inner city primary school
has improved outcomes and achieved sustained
distribute and embed a excellence through values-led leadership. Their
whole education innovative practice supports staff to become leaders
of their own learning, embedding whole education
values across the school.

A Trust-wide framework Learn how one Trust has spent a year researching
evidence and best practice to develop a Trust-wide
to enable schools to framework for curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
effectively offer a whole which is both knowledge rich and explictly develops
wider skills pupils need to be successful life-long
education learners.

Putting UN sustainability Find out how one school have redesigned their
curriculum around the UN Sustainability Goals. They
goals at the heart of the aim to make learning more relevant and engaging, and
curriculum prepare pupils from Reception to Year 6 to thrive in
the future as learners and citzens.

An extended EYFS Through enabling children to have choice over

their work until year 4, providing opportunities to
philosophy to support work without a teacher and structuring open-plan
independent learners up classrooms, discover how one school has implemented
an extended EYFS philosophy to develop children’s
to Y4 communication, independence and social skills.
Inspirational
secondaries
Transforming students Discover how one cross-phase Trust builds on and
develops the principles of best practice at primary in
key stage 3 learning its secondary education, to ensure smooth transition.
through cross-curricular By building on the model of class teachers and themed
teaching in Year 7 and beyond, the Literacy 4 Life
theme based learning curriculum helps students thrive in KS3 and beyond.

Rethinking the time and Learn how one secondary school has transformed
outcomes by making better use of the time and
resources available to community resources available. An innovative
transform outcomes and approach to a voluntary Saturday school has seen
high engagement for pupil premium students (who
enagement for all students have achived a progree score of +1.2) while developing
wider skills like independence.

Vocational for all to Find out how one secondary school includes a
vocational option for all their students as part of their
provide students with a KS3 curriculum, in order to expose them to a broad
wide range of learning mix of pedagogies, develop a wider set of skills and
support learning across a range of different settings.
opportunities

Approaches to Arts subjects have an important role to play in a

fully rounded, whole education curriculum. Find out
curriculum and how one school has used innovative approaches to
assessment to maintain assessment to maintain a rich arts entitlement for all
students in a challenging national climate.
broad arts provision

Using a ‘school within a Hear from the school leaders of a large secondary
comprehensive on how they have piloted and scaled
school’ to give all an innovative ‘school within a school’ model. This
students an education helps learners improve their outcomes, benefit from a
more personalised education and develop their wider
that meets their needs skills like independence.
Inspirational
secondaries

Using outdoor and Find out how one school has turned their belief that
every child has an entitlement to a wider curriculum
adventure learning to into a reality. Through national and international trips
improve life chances for and outdoor learning, the school has delivered a whole
education across a range of settings and improved
white working-class boys outcomes, particularly for white working class boys.

Being internationally- Understand how one of the country’s most innovative

and successful schools have been inspired by
informed: expeditionary school models in the USA like High Tech High and
learning in an English Expeditionary Learning, and succesfully adapted them
for an English context. Learning expeditions develop
context deep, cross-curriculular subject knowledge and the
habits students need to thrive in work and learning.

Delievering a whole Find out about how one rural secondary school has
delivered and sustained a whole education by focusing
education with a focus on on their curriculum narrative (or intent) long before
empowering independent Ofsted became interested. They have achieved this
through a community approach which places student
learners voice, creativity and agency at the heart of its work.

Focusing on staff and Discover how a school is focused on delivering a

high-quality whole education through investing in the
student wellbeing to wellbeing of staff and students alike. Innovations like
create a culture where all a staff wellbeing room and mindfulness have helped
build a culture that supports staff to thrive and enables
can thrive students to feel safe and supported to learn.

Taking a sustainable, Find out how one secondary has taken a long-term
view on improving outcomes in KS4 through a brave
long-term approach to approach to T&L, initially in Y7 and Y8. They have
transforming learning focused on embedding student agency by learning
from and adapting assests of the Kunskapsskolan
model including coaching and goal setting.
Making the most of the Primary Core Offer
We will be launching our primay core offer for 2019/20 at the Summer Conference. There will be a
workshop for primary schools to share their progress towards delivering a fully rounded curriculum, and
hear from WE’s new Director of Primaries about how our national network can support this journey.

There will also be a taster for our new Leading a Whole Education Primary course, which allows schools
to develop their curriculum leadership and discover some of the stand out practice in primaries in our
national as well as regional networks.

Contact: killian@wholeeducation.org

Making the most of the Secondary Core Offer

We will be launching our secondary core offer for 2019/20 at the Summer Conference. There will be
sessions for this year’s cohorts of Leading a Whole Education Secondary and WE Lab Classrooms as well
as an exhibition of practice from the WE Lab Classrooms participants open to all.

Contact: verity@wholeeducation.org

Leading a Whole Education Community WE Lab Classrooms

Delivering a high-quality whole education for
all is an ongoing and complex challenge. This
programme supports senior leaders at secondary
to deepen and extend their knowledge of what
works and how it can be put into practice. It
combines the structure of a programme with a
broad range of opportunities that you can pick
and mix based on your school’s context.
At the summer conference participants will have
the opportunity to share their progress and agree
next steps in their whole education provision.
This programme puts the emphasis on quality
classroom practice. It helps teachers learn
from research about ‘two for one’ pedagogies-
approaches that develop knowledge as well as
wider skills and qualities- and trial them in their
classrooms with structured support.
The summer conference is a chance for
participants to share learning from the year,
reflect on their practice, and hear an expert
speaker on the challenges and opportunities of
evidence-informed action.

Securing your place

+ Participants in our core offer programmes for secondary (LAWES and WE
Lab Classrooms) each receive one free place.
+ WE Primary Schools each receive one free place
+ Further tickets cost £95 for WE members
+ Tickets for all other guests £195

To book your tickets visit bit.ly/WE-SC