Retain

• Supporting your health –free use of school swimming pool, free flu jabs.
• Flexible personal leave requests.
• Option of paid lunch duties, no additional workload expectations.
• Minimising teacher cover – fantastic team of Cover Supervisors.
• Valued and impactful staff voice processes.
• Staff work environments refurbished, staff outings and free social events.
• Wellbeing programmes e.g. yoga

Communication:

• Culture of staff peer to peer recognition – OSCAs.
• Open dialogue – leaders meet with staff regularly to discuss wellbeing and workload; staff wellbeing committee.
• Coordinated communication to keep staff informed yet reduce email traffic.
• No expectation for staff to respond to emails during evenings or weekends.

Pupil Culture:

• Simple, clear behaviour principles, framed by our values.
• Providing visible and accessible support from senior staff – ‘On Call’
• Centralised behaviour systems for recognition / sanctions e.g. detention.

Teachers – Curriculum, teaching and assessment:

• Centralised curriculum planning and resourcing for every subject so that you can spend your time focusing on the needs of for the pupils in your classes.
• Centralised character (tutor) curriculum planning and resourcing.
• Knowledge organisers – clarity of intended learning for staff, pupils and parents
• Data processes – minimised data drops, single point data entry, focus on using assessment to inform actions.
• Feedback policy and processes (no marking) and no written reports.

Accountability:

• Staff wellbeing survey twice an academic year, with results published alongside actions.
• Ensuring a well-managed directed time – minimising low impact activities and scheduling only on meeting per week.
• Reliable IT systems and highly responsive support team that enable you to focus on what you need to do.
• Dedicated admin time for your areas of responsibility.
• Continuously reviewing and evaluating our systems to improve our offer for staff.

• Training that enables middle leaders to support their team’s wellbeing and to be a great leader of people.
• Ensuring staff understand their role in supporting their own wellbeing including through their access to our Wellbeing portal.
• Considering the needs of individuals and helping staff with specific wellbeing issues.
• Encouraging and supporting to staff to work in a way that suits them and to have time for yourself / family .