Hounslow Education Partnership Annual Report 2023/24

Welcome to the HEP Annual Report for 2023/24.

Here is an overview of some of the key activities we have delivered, with and for our schools, this academic year.

We have thoroughly enjoyed working closely with our schools to provide high quality training and meetings throughout the year.

We'd like to thank our HEP chairs and members for their excellent work and support. Our valued partnership ensures that we continue to deliver the best possible outcomes for the children and young people of Hounslow.

Financial Summary

HEP’s business targets support our schools.

Our total income for the year to 31 August 2024 was £509k, £64k above the original budget. This included income from schools of £409k, LA linked income of £84k, £11k STEM funding to support subject networks and £4k from Hounslow Promise for the Christmas present campaign. In addition to membership fees of £171k, income from schools comprised the following work streams: £150k Fair Access, £59k Primary Peer Challenge and £29k HEP training and CPD. LA income comprised £45k VRU grant, £25k Joint Practice Development and £14k income for administration of Specialist Home Engagement Leads (SHEL) relating to the prior year.

Costs of sale were £511k, comprising staff costs of £191k, partnership meeting costs of £24k and £296k that is directly attributable to specific income streams. This was an increase of £9k against the budget.

General overheads were £43k, £3k under budget due to savings and some unspent contingency.

The full-year position is a net deficit of £45k, against a budgeted deficit of £103k. Unspent balances of £96k are held as ring-fenced funds within the overall carry forward of £265k. These include VRU grant, Fair Access income, Training and CPD income and Primary to Secondary Transitions funding, which we plan to spend on relevant projects over the next year. Unrestricted reserves, after eliminating ring-fenced funds, are £169k, a surplus of £21k against the budget.

The majority of HEP income streams are exempt from corporation tax and we do not expect to incur a tax liability for the year ended 31 August 2024.

Note: These figures are based on those to be included in the full, audited accounts for the period ended 31 August 2024. The full Annual Report and Accounts will be made available via the HEP website once published.

For previous years' Annual Reports click here

For previous years' audited financial reports please go to the HEP Company Information section in the Members Area of the website.

Primary Summary

Delivering excellence in all we do for the children and young people of Hounslow.

Peer Challenge

A quality assured peer review programme in its 11th year
41 schools are actively involved in school improvement across the partnership

Primary Subject Networks

15 curriculum subjects expertly facilitated
Over 1000 teachers attended network sessions in 2023/24

Get Hounslow Reading

Over 400 teachers involved across 47 schools reaching over 12,000 pupils
Partnership with St Mary’s University, Twickenham firmly established

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SixintoSeven Transition Portal for all schools

Digitising transition for Y6 across Hounslow
Supporting 3365 pupils in 2024

Together with Hounslow schools, we have developed a bespoke digital transition service to support the best transitions possible for children moving from primary to secondary schools.

Aims

Modernise our way of working
Reduce administration and manual input
Add security and GDPR compliance

Significant improvements have been made to the portal, since the start of this project, including:

- The pre-upload of year 6 pupils from the council's data team
- A separate SEND area with an option to flag pupils who need further discussion with the secondary school

School Led improvement Primary Group (SLIPs)

Focused on sharing best practices and driving improvements in teaching and learning through joint practice development
Facilitates professional development, data-driven approaches, and partnerships through the outcomes of Peer Challenge

Secondary Summary

We respond to the needs of schools to build the capacity of the school-led system.

Secondary Subject Networks

Develop professional relationships between subject leaders from different schools which facilitates ongoing peer support
Facilitate sharing and development of good practice related to subject teaching, learning and assessment

Secondary Subject Networks meet on a termly basis allowing for collaboration, best practice sharing and middle leader development. They cover the following subjects:

Business & Economics	Film & Media Studies	PE
CEIAG	Geography	Psychology
CPD Leads	Heads of 6th form	RE/Philosophy
Computing	Health & Social Care	Science
Data Managers	History	SENDCO
Drama	Librarians	Sociology
DSL	Maths	Technology
EAL	MFL	Visual Arts
English	Music

How does it work?

Subject Networks are overseen by the SLTL group within HEP schools who:

Maintain up-to-date contact lists
Support processes, communications and time frames internally

Expert practitioners, endorsed by their Headteacher are nominated as Leads for these networks.

Pre-meeting collaboration

Ahead of each meeting members contribute agenda suggestions and rsvp to each meeting via a shared document distributed by HEP. Leads finalise and distribute the agenda a week in advance of their meeting. This ensures each network has autonomy over discussions.

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Senior Leaders of Teaching and Learning

Develop professional relationships between senior colleagues across HEP facilitating ongoing peer support
To provide a mechanism for efficient and effective consultation, development and information flow between SLTL and HEP on programmes

SLTL meet half-termly. The group is chaired by Gerard Dineen (Headteacher - Nishkam School).

Develop your A level Teaching

A forum for Hounslow teachers and leaders with a passion and responsibility for excellent provision at post-16
A programme of high quality training that is based on current and relevant educational theory and research, supporting the in-school CPD offer.

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STEM Enthuse Partnership

2 year partnership building a bespoke training offer for teachers at all stages of their career
Focusing on improving KS5 outcomes

HEP secondary schools are able to opt into a STEM Enthuse Partnership (EP) with a defined focus around raising KS5 outcomes. This began in November 2022 and runs for two years. Currently 12 schools have opted in and this EP brings with it £20,000 of funding held in a virtual pot to be spent on training. Each term of the two-year partnership, once reporting has been submitted by HEP and approved by STEM, HEP receives £2000. This is being fed into Secondary Subject Networks.

This programme is due to end in September 2024.

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SixintoSeven

Digitising transition for Y6 across Hounslow
Supporting 3365 pupils in 2024

Focus30 project in partnership with Brentford Football Club Community Sport Trust (BFCCST)

Early intervention programme to support secondary students
Providing positive role models - focusing on changing attitudes and reducing school exclusions

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What our members say

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."

Primary Subject Networks – "Meeting other subject leaders and sharing, makes me feel better about what we are delivering and that we are on the right track."

Develop your A level Teaching – "It was really nice to be able to talk to other A level German teachers as there aren’t very many and we could share our experiences."

Contingent Talk with Books – "Such a worthwhile project for Early Years, which you can see working right in front of your eyes. Well-planned and organised project, fantastic expert who inspires us all."

Get Hounslow Reading – "The biggest impact has been on our teachers’ enthusiasm for reading/books and their knowledge of high quality texts, finding innovative ways to engage readers through displays, book talk and story time."

Secondary Subject Networks – "There are so many useful takeaways from the meeting to help improve teaching and learning and they are things which can easily be put into place after the meeting."

Get Hounslow Reading – “There can be no doubt of the enthusiasm of Hounslow teachers and impact of their hard work on growing a Reading for Pleasure practice in their schools over this academic year. Many teachers said that the time to talk and share practice was what they valued most highly.” Charlotte Raby – Programme Facilitator

Secondary Subject Networks – “I really enjoy the content and the supportive group of fellow geography leaders discussing ideas in a non-judgmental, relatively informal way. The group certainly helps each other and fundamentally discusses relevant topics which are benefiting me.”

Get Hounslow Reading – "Very informative and helpful. A lovely chance to reflect. Excellent, enthusiastic delivery which would inspire anyone! You are very knowledgeable and sessions are well-organised. Thank you!”

Challenging Behaviour Training – “Great training, thank you for all your expertise and advice. I learnt lots of things about different ways that can affect pupils’ behaviour and how to deal with different situations."

Deep Dive Subject Leader Training – “Thank you for the very detailed and thorough subject leader checklist. It is an extremely useful and much necessary exercise. It's been an eye opener. Thank you”

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.”

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

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