Programmes for
Primary schools
As a primary school headteacher, you continually strive to elevate both pupil outcomes and teacher satisfaction. Our tailored, holistic programmes are designed to support you in these goals, delivered face-to-face by our experts and through our collaborative network.
Personalised Pathways focuses on developing a child-led learning culture in your school, supporting pupil creativity and resilience. Meanwhile, Positive Pathways enhances teacher skills and implements positive peer-to-peer coaching, helping your staff feel more motivated.
Join us in creating a thriving educational culture that benefits everyone in your school community.
Benefits to your pupils
and school
Energise your team, upskill your teachers, and improve your school’s culture and results with Positive Pathways. Our programme offers a positive, alternative path to high-quality professional and personal development, ensuring you get the very best from your team while making them happier in their work.
With training from our experts, we help your school to:
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Create coaching experts: Equip designated staff members with a professional coaching process and resources.
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Build motivational tools: Develop resources that inspire and motivate your staff.
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Prioritise personal reflection: Offer opportunities for staff to reflect on their personal and professional lives, enhancing their effectiveness.
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Set positive goals: Establish comprehensive goals that go beyond regular targets, aligning individual and collective efforts.
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Focus on clear planning: Provide clarity on school improvement plans, ensuring everyone is on the same page.
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Effective coaching environment: Identify how to create time and space for effective coaching within your school. schedule
Explore our unique programmes
One day to learn our peer-to-peer coaching techniques and get practical advice on
how to start your coaching culture; one day to complete a review of outcomes and next steps.
1. Two face-to-face support days
We survey your staff at the start of the programme, and at the end of the first year. You get a comprehensive report to share with your stakeholders.
2. Report with tangible results
Additionally, you will have access to our wider community of like-minded headteachers and schools through quarterly webinars covering insightful topics about teaching and learning.
3. Global Spirit Ed school network
What you get
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3 network headteacher meetings per year via Zoom
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3 coaching champions meetings per year via Zoom
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3 SAIL (student agency in learning) coordinators' meetings per year
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3 research lead meetings
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Ziik – our exclusive communication platform for members – share resources, ask questions, and celebrate success.
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One half-price ticket to the national conference
You also get exclusive access to:
Our approach
Positive Pathways uses a collaborative coaching model focused on appreciative, bottom-up feedback rather than top-down approach. Supporting the development of a consistent approach to classroom practice. This method helps teachers and pupils thrive by:
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Facilitating peer-to-peer coaching, making teachers feel listened to and invested in, and enabling skills sharing
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Reconnecting teachers with their purpose and mission, giving them more freedom and motivation
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Reducing stress, exhaustion, and demotivation exacerbated by the pandemic and external scrutiny
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Promoting wellbeing through positive coaching techniques and personal psychology.
One day to help you and your teachers develop a plan for child-led learning and practical advice on how to implement it effectively; one day to complete a review of outcomes and next steps.
1. Two face-to-face support days
We survey your teachers and pupils to provide a detailed report, including positive outcomes for students, teachers, and the overall school culture, which you can share with key stakeholders.
2. End-of-year report
Plus, you get access to our wider community of like-minded headteachers and schools through quarterly webinars covering insightful topics about teaching and learning.
3. Global Spirit Ed school network
What you get
With training from our experts, we help your school to:
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Develop a pupil coaching strategy: Create and implement processes for effective student coaching
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Start learning conversations: Equip teachers and students with the skills needed for purposeful conversations about their learning
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Shape a child-led curriculum: Design a curriculum that facilitates child-led learning and provides opportunities for increased pupil choice within the weekly timetable
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Support timetabling and resourcing: Assist with the planning and reflection processes to create time for child-led learning in your setting
You also get exclusive access to:
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3 network headteacher meetings per year (termly) via Zoom
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3 coaching champions meetings per year via Zoom
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3 SAIL (student agency in learning) coordinators' meetings per year
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3 research-led meetings
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Ziik – our exclusive communication platform for members – share resources, ask questions, and celebrate success.
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One half-price ticket to our national conference
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Develop a child-led learning culture in your school
£1600 + VAT
Our approach
The ambition of the headteachers we work with is to nurture pupils who care deeply about their education. We know the key to achieving this is through child-led learning, or personalised education. This approach tailors education to each pupil’s individual needs, interests, and aptitudes, helping every young person reach their full potential.
Embracing personalisation has a proven positive impact on pupils, teachers, and the school community across wellbeing, results, and culture. Learn more about our approach.
Working with Global Spirit Ed has been inspirational. It has empowered us to do what we know is right for our children.
Becky Crossley, Headteacher, Johnson Fold CP School, Bolton
Benefits to your pupils and school
Join Personalised Pathways to transform your school's learning environment through personalised, child-led techniques. Empower your children, enhance their learning experience, and foster a thriving educational culture.
Our programme fosters happy, self-motivated children who become resilient lifelong learners, ready to face a challenging world. In turn, your teachers also benefit – our child-led approach gives them more freedom to tailor their lessons to the individual needs of their students.
And, as part of the Global SpiritEd SAIL (Student Agency In Learning) network of schools, you’ll be able to collaborate with other like-minded educators.
By working directly with KevIn At Global Spirit ED, all staff have received coaching training use THIS coaching to strengthen their practice.
Gemma Partington, Headteacher, Sharples Primary School