Primary Peer Challenge

Primary Peer Challenge

The Peer Challenge programme was designed with and for local Hounslow Headteachers and is a partnership between schools that promotes collective responsibility and shared accountability for the educational outcomes of children and young people in Hounslow. The quality assured programme, now in its 11th year, has 41 schools actively involved in school improvement across the partnership. This sustained engagement of schools and  leadership teams across Hounslow schools is a direct result of the positive outcomes and benefits that participating schools have experienced.

Aims of the programme
  • Foster and embed ambition, high aspiration and achievement for all the children and young people educated in Hounslow 
  • Establish a distinctive and sustainable ‘Hounslow’ approach to support for school improvement, created, developed and owned by Hounslow schools, and founded on the principles of ‘system leadership’, in which school leaders contribute to school improvement beyond their own school 
  • Adopt an approach to school improvement that supports and challenges all schools – not just those at risk – at whatever stage of their improvement journey
How Peer Challenge works
  • Participating schools work in triads, coordinated by a Collaborative Lead 
  • Each school undertakes self-assessment
  • Two peer challenges a year
  • Peer Challenge process includes handbook and support materials 
  • Sample of peer reviews quality assured in each cycle
  • Outcomes identified for Joint Practice Development

HEP’s role is to promote Joint Practice Development, scoped and developed on behalf of members by the School Led Improvement Group (SLIPs). 

Identified Areas for Joint Practice Development 

  • Subject Leaders Network – facilitated through HEP
  • Attendance Network and workshops 
  • Middle and Senior Leader development 
  • Curriculum leadership
  • Get Hounslow Reading
  • Get Hounslow Writing
Peer Challenge Collaborative Leads

Alison Small – Collaborative A
John Norton – Collaborative B
Eileen Sheedy – Collaborative C
Debbie Norton – Collaborative D

Key contact
HEP Director: Cormac Bourne
Email: c.bourne@hounsloweductaionpartnership.co.uk

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What our members say

Develop your A Level Teaching – “A much appreciated forum to apply pedagogy to a subject specific domain, with such rich professional talk after the keynotes in the Economics breakout session.”

Ofsted Inspection Training – "Four days well spent! Supporting the development of our school under the guidance of a skilled trainer with a wealth of experience across the primary range was invaluable."

Primary Subject Networks – "The content in the sessions covers all aspects of high quality practice in Maths and it makes me reflective on my practice in class and how I lead and help develop other teachers."

Contact us

The success of the Hounslow Education Partnership depends, in part, on good communication so please do get in touch to give us your feedback or about anything else you would like to discuss.

Email: info@hounsloweducationpartnership.co.uk

Our member schools