Working together with the community to maximise opportunities, enable wellbeing and promote best practice and excellence in learning for everyone.

At present we are hearing many things about local collaboration for school improvement and better service delivery. This already happens in Tandridge with many cross school activities and shared development ideas and projects already taking place.

A strategy has already developed which is broad-based, raising attainment amongst learners, promoting efficiency through workforce reform, and combating bureaucracy to maximise the benefits for collaborative working for all staff. It has been proved in other more established partnerships that teachers and support staff are motivated and stimulated by opportunities to work with colleagues in other schools on common issues, whether it is their subject specialism, issues around literacy, numeracy, science or behaviour and attendance. Peer support is a powerful method of continuous professional development.

Teachers also benefit from working with colleagues more widely on broader issues, such as transition into and beyond school or family support. Specialist staff including providers of Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy, teaching resources and good practice can be shared amongst schools, providing greater opportunities for professional and leadership development, and increasing job satisfaction.

Contact Us

Tandridge Confederation Manager   

Sarah Davison
Tandridge Confederationns
Oxted School
Blue House Lane
Oxted
Surrey
RH8 0AB

Email: sarah.davison@btconnect.com

About the Confederation

The Tandridge Confederation Vision

Working together with the community to maximise opportunities, enable wellbeing and promote best practice and excellence in learning for everyone

Moving Forward Together

Objectives

• To retain the individual ethos of each school.
• To raise achievement of pupils within our schools by:
  • Sharing good practice.
  • Promoting and facilitating innovative and relevant inset.
  • Increasing parental knowledge, involvement and support through Family Learning and other initiatives.
  • Sharing the development of out of hours activities.
  • Providing more shared support services including ICT.
  • Innovating and sharing support for gifted and talented pupils.
  • Developing shared and community activities.
  • Developing confederation-wide creative projects.
  • Developing confederation-wide sports projects.
  • Improving leadership and staff development for all.
• To improve links with support services provided SCC, NHS etc.
• To become a focal point for community activities in and around the Tandridge area.
• To bid for funding for projects to support the aspirations of our confederation.
• To facilitate the provision of enhanced services for staff.
• To develop a structure for governance and management of our confederation.
• To ensure the long-term sustainability of the confederation.
• To support innovation at all levels.
• To build capacity to support the improvement of children’s physical and mental health within all member of schools
• To sustain and develop the provision and sharing of high quality wider curricular activity for all member schools
• To develop a self sustaining model where new money supports the continuing work of the member schools after the induction year.