Kidderminster Primary School's Alliance

A joint partnership between Chaddesley Corbett Primary School, Comberton Primary School, Cookley Sebright Primary School, Offmore Primary School & St Catherine’s CE Primary School.

The aims of the partnership are:

To improve the outcomes in the key areas of teaching and learning, behaviour and well-being and achievement through:

• Collaboration - the sharing of expertise, good practice, knowledge and data
• Increased capacity - shared common policies and resources
• Better opportunities for high quality professional development
• Shared quality assurance - school to school visits and peer reviews
• Moderation - ensuring assessment judgements are fair and accurate
• Improved economies of scale  - e.g. bulk purchasing, shared costs

Benefits of the alliance

• Sharing resources and provisions and expertise across the schools particularly for curriculum subject leadership,
• Shared professional development for staff and the schools are able to build on established classroom approaches,
• Allowing all staff to collaborate and improve standards in all schools (eg Metacognition work),
• The cost effectiveness of shared work (such as CPD), makes previously unaffordable training accessible for all schools.

KPSA Events 2023 - 24 for Pupils

We have been pleased to work collaboratively through:

• Cookley hosted Reading & Maths Competitions – May 2023
• St Catherine’s led balance ability sessions with Reception classes across all 5 schools – June 2023
• Offmore led an upper KS2 Football tournament – July 2023
• Chaddesley organised an orienteering morning – September 2023
• Musical theatre day at Comberton – November 2023

Upcoming events:

• Cookley Reading & Maths Competitions – May 2024
• St Catherine’s Arts Day – May 2024
• Offmore sports tournament – July 2024