Outreach

Royal Wootton Bassett Academy has had a long and productive relationship with OLEVI, first becoming a facilitation school in 2011. Initially facilitating the Creative Teacher Programme and Outstanding Teacher Programme, these programmes have had a dramatic impact on the standards of teaching and learning at Royal Wootton Bassett Academy, with consistently high levels of learning happening on behalf of our students as a direct result of more consistently high-quality teaching. 

Driven by the combination of Teaching and Learning, Leadership and Coaching we have seen this impact grow within our own school over the last 14 years. The impact of our work grew into using these programmes as part of the Challenge Partners ‘engine of improvement’. This has enabled us to work with several schools and help to increase standards of teaching and learning across the region. 

It was therefore seen as a logical next step to progress to become a Designated OLEVI Centre; to ensure that we built both excellence within all the schools that we work with, and also to leave a lasting legacy within these schools for their consistent development. The fundamental reasons behind our school’s decision to become a DOC were to help establish a network of facilitation schools in our local area and to provide a more regionalised approach to developing facilitators for both CTP and OTP in the South-West. It has also allowed us to greatly increase our provision, to include the Outstanding Teacher Programme Plus (OTP+), the Outstanding Facilitator Programme (OFP) and the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme (OTAP) in our Teaching and Learning portfolio. We are very excited to be able to extend this even further by providing coaching and leadership programmes in our core offer. The Power of Coaching (POC) and Advanced Power of Coaching (APOC) are offered as stand-alone programmes whilst the Outstanding Leadership in Education Programme (OLE) and Senior Outstanding Leadership in Education Programme (SOLE) are both offered within our leadership development work.

We are constantly seeking to improve ourselves through continually learning from and with others within our capacity as OLEVI Quality Assurance consultants, as members of the OLEVI Professional Alliance for Learning, and engaging in research and development to help further develop the OLEVI suite of programmes and the impact these have nationally. Ultimately, we are seeking to implement all of these strategies so that we can achieve our overall moral purpose; to ensure that children experience the best education possible