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Login with SSAT IDSSAT Leading Edge has been connecting high performing schools for over fifteen years. We understand the challenges of achieving and sustaining high performance and believe that these challenges are best met with the support of like-minded professionals.
As the only national network specifically for high-performing schools, SSAT Leading Edge connects you to colleagues across the country, providing structured collaboration and regular opportunities to learn from each other’s best practice.
As someone whose career has involved leading firefighters into some of the most dangerous situations, Andy Roe has thought-provoking observations about leadership. Anne-Marie Duguid and Alex Galvin of SSAT write.
Alex Galvin, SSAT Senior Education Lead, writes… The team at SSAT are in the privileged position of visiting a large number of schools every year. We know that despite the very real challenges that schools are currently facing, day in
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Parliament Hill School, an SSAT member school, undertook a student co-planner project that has had significant effect on students’ confidence & self-esteem.
3D technology can significantly enhance learning but it is not without it’s pitfalls, as Tendring Technology College discovered.
Smestow School saw assessing without levels as an exciting opportunity, but its new Y7 intakes were offering increased (though welcome) challenges…
I was fortunate to work with David Hargreaves on personalising learning and system redesign. He was very scornful when anyone used descriptors for leadership. His belief is that leadership is leadership, and he would say that, of course, leaders will
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Stephen Munday, Executive Headteacher, Comberton Academy Trust writes O/b SSAT Leading Edge Headteachers’ Steering Group… Dear Secretary of State I am writing on behalf of the Leading Edge programme, which represents almost 300 high-performing secondary schools and academies, to express concern at
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