Our Successes
2025 - RISE team supporting Organisation
Hales Valley Trust is a designated RISE supporting organisation to help schools within the targeted intervention strand of the RISE programme accelerate their school improvement activities.
Schools are currently eligible for targeted RISE intervention if they:
- were previously due to receive structural intervention after 1 January 2025 but have had that intervention revoked, OR
- are a stuck school, defined as a school that was graded Requires Improvement or equivalent at its most recent Ofsted inspection, and was also graded below Good at its previous inspection and is still within the same structure.
Under the targeted RISE intervention programme, there is opportunity for trusts, schools, and local authorities to work with eligible RISE schools as a Supporting Organisation. Supporting Organisations will work in collaboration with the eligible school and their responsible body (the trust for an academy, or the local authority for a maintained school, and the faith body where applicable), to develop and deliver a school improvement plan, over a period of up to 6 terms.
September 2025 - Artifical Intelligence Workshop
2025 - Register of Experts
In 2025 our CEO became a registered DfE Expert providing support for other schools and Trusts.
Flexible Working Ambassador trust - FWAMs - West Midlands - 2024-2026
Hales Valley Trust was so successful engaging with Trusts in the East Midlands they were awarded the honour of becoming a Flexible Working Ambassador Trust for the West Midlands too!
Read a case study about our Trust here...
https://flexibleworkingineducation.co.uk/resource-library?search=hales+valley
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2024-2025 - West Midlands Regions Group Learning Set - Workforce Resilience
Our CEO led a learning set for CEOs and senior leaders across the West Midlands region. Partnering with
to consider how their statistics can help us reflect on how we value and support our workforce.
Learning set plan
Session 1: 11th October 2024- group session evaluating ways in which we currently seek to reduce the impact of pupil behaviour on staff wellbeing.
Session 2: 22nd November -undertaking peer to peer reviews of our behaviour polices which sets out the school's ethos around behaviour - being brave and sharing our behaviour statements and/or policies to peer review
Session 3: 24th January 2025 - exploring best practice for managing pupil behaviour to improve staff wellbeing - exploring best practice for managing pupil behaviour to improve staff wellbeing. Led by behaviour Hub at St Augustine's Catholic High School
Session 4: 7th March - How the use of technology can reduce administrative burden around behaviour management - invite a range of behaviour log IT solutions to share their options
Session 5: 16th May - engaging with a range of experts around effective behaviour
management strategies we can adopt across our Trusts - engaging with a range of experts around effective behaviour management strategies we can adopt across our Trusts
Session 6: 20th June – yearly round up and next steps
Flexible Working Ambassador trust - FWAMs - East Midlands - 2022-2024
Hales Valley Trust was awarded the honour of becoming a Flexible Working Ambassador Trust for the East Midlands.
Capita, funded by the Department for Education, is leading a programme to provide flexible working in Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and schools. Delivered in collaboration with Flexible Teacher Talent and the Flexible Working Ambassador MATs and Schools (FWAMS), it includes free training/ webinars and bespoke peer support. The programme helps school leaders design flexible roles, proactively address challenges and embrace the benefits of flexible working. It highlights practices such as part-time work, job sharing, remote work, phased retirement, and personal or family days to increase flexibility. The FWAMS, who have successfully implemented flexible working in their own schools provide guidance and peer support to help navigate these challenges effectively.
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Round 1 SSIF bid - Improving outcomes for 40 schools across the Black Country 2017-2019
2017 -2019 Hales Valley led a successful project to improve GLD in 40 schools across all 4 Black Country Authorities. With the help of National and Specialist leaders of education we successfully improved outcomes for over 3000 children in our region. The work included increasing the leadership and management understanding of Early years including the upskilling Governors too.
Following the success of the project we will replicate this work in Dudley in 2019-2020 aiming to improve outcomes for more pupils based on the success of this work.
If you would like further information about the project and how it successfully improved outcomes contact us on training@halesvalleytrust.org.uk.
If you would like further information about the project and how it successfully improved outcomes contact us on training@halesvalleytrust.org.uk.
DfE Recruitment and Retention Strategy - 2018/2019
As an NLE Rebecca Cox has been supporting schools who have difficulty retaining and attracting the right teachers into their schools. Through an application for grant funding from the DfE schools can access additional support in order to invest in their newly recruited, or new to teaching, staff so that they are fully supported in their early career stages so they are more likely to remain in the teaching profession.
Equality and Diversity Grant - 2013 -2019
We have been fortunate to be awarded a grant for £25,000 over a number of years to develop leadership potential for BME candidates and also men into primary and women into secondary leadership positions. Grants are available for groups of schools to address the challenges of equality and diversity in school leadership. Women and those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds are under represented in the school leadership workforce.
The unique programme devised by Hales Valley Teaching School gives candidates their own experienced mentor who will coach them through how to gain a leadership position in a school and a series of workshops will help them to reflect on their next steps into leadership.
For further information please follow the link below.