"Partnerships are an integral part of the school’s success. There are very strong links with local groups of schools and schools in the same deanery." Ofsted
Partnerships
Our partnerships are an integral part of the way we collaborate with our educational community. We belong to different groups from local partnerships such as the Poplar Partnership, serving the children of Poplar to ones that define our character such as the Tower Hamlets Deanery Group. We also work with educational partnerships across designations and locality, the M3 partnership. Leaders get together, share and develop good practice that effects the education we provide.
We also reach out further and host visits from beyond local and national with schools further afield including from Gothenburg, Sweden and Kigali, Rwanda. The children learn how extended our family is, secular and Christian. Teachers in the past have been able to visit and learn from each other.
Tower Hamlets Deanery Partnership
The Tower Hamlets Deanery Partnership of Schools is part of the London Diocesan Board of Schools. There are 153 Church of England schools and 2 community schools across 18 London Local Authorities. You can find out more on their website here.(http://schools.london.anglican.org/)
Schools in the Deanery
Christ Church, St Johns, St Luke’s, St Matthias, St Pauls, St Paul with St Lukes, St Peter’s, St Saviour’s, Stepney Greencoat, Sir John Cass (City)
We are a diverse group of church schools, serving our local Inner City Community. As a Deanery, we have worked in partnership for a number of years, sharing information and best practice.
- to continue to build a partnership that is supportive, confidential and aspirational
- to share good practise for the benefit of all
- to be committed to at least two partnership school improvement activities each year
- For all our schools to be good or better.
- To hold ourselves accountable for improving the results of the whole partnership
- To remain totally committed to being inclusive, serving all in our local community
- To help good schools to become outstanding
- To continue to work with other partnerships, especially Tower Hamlets Consultative.
Teacher Training
St Saviour's works in conjunction with Teaching London: LDBS SCITT to recruit and train teachers on the School Direct programme leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).
What is School Direct?
School Direct is a school-based route into teaching. As a School Direct trainee training with our school and our ITT provider, Teaching London, you’ll learn alongside inspiring, passionate teachers with outstanding pedagogical knowledge. You will be trained to become a successful, confident and effective teacher, and will be equipped to teach in a dynamic and vibrant primary school. You will undertake entirely ‘on the job’ teacher training, allowing you to gain the qualifications and practical skills required to become a teacher.
Entry Requirements
Teaching London is seeking high quality graduates who can demonstrate a commitment to teaching as a career. To find out more about our entry requirements, click here.
How to Apply
Candidates should apply via gov.uk. Course codes are available here.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be offered a conditional place.
For more information click here to visit the Teaching London: LDBS SCITT website.
Poplar Partnership
The vision of the Poplar Partnership is to develop a strong model of partnership working across our schools and between our schools and other community groups and members; to nurture a real sense of community, a place that people are proud to call home; to build great schools whose young people go on to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives with the same opportunities and choices of young people born in any other area of the UK. Find out more.
Barclays has provided Moneyskills training for children in the Juniors. Barclays volunteers have worked with staff to refurbish our playground. Recently Lifeskills in collaboration with Tower Hamlets Schools. The Headteacher of Langdon Park School can be seen talking about the Partnerships here.
Researching together to create thinking teachers and learners. Read the report on the impact of philosophy for children we took part in as a Going for Gold school.
Global Partnerships
We have been fortunate to work in partnerships through the British Council with ten schools in Rwanda. Leaders have visited Rwanda to learn about how the country has rebuilt its education system following the civil war and genocide.
The partnership enabled us to deepen our understanding of how we foster a deep sense of community across our Christian family. Our children developed an awareness of how schools can differ across the world, while sharing the unity of faith.
St Saviour's teachers were able to teach classes in Rwanda, take part in worship and visit historical sites. Rwandan teachers visited St Saviour's and other local schools to share leadership practice.
Parish of Poplar
We are a Church of England school and our associated churches are All Saints' and St Nicholas’ in the Parish of Poplar. We have services in All Saints Church, a fifteen minute walk away, on key dates in the church calendar.
St Paul's Cathedral
We have a music cultural partnership with St Paul's Cathedral. Our children benefit from the expertise and experience of some of the best singing teachers in the capital.
Think Equal
We work with Think Equal, an initiative to achieve change in education to introduce Social and Emotional Learning as a compulsory new subject.