Leadership in practice
Impact Teams.
Cross-functional school improvement teams. Every educator serves on one. Each team drives a specific Culture Area or Curriculum Area, aligned to the school’s annual implementation plan.
Culture Areas
Three teams for school culture.
The culture-area Impact Teams focus on how children feel, behave, and learn as whole people.
SEL Team · Social Emotional Learning
Integrates social-emotional learning into the curriculum and school culture, supporting children’s emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills.
PBIS Team · Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports
Establishes and maintains effective strategies for improving student behaviour, creating a positive school environment.
EL Team · Effective Learning
Identifies and implements strategies that enhance learning through explicit instruction of metacognition and thinking strategies.
Curriculum Areas
Seven teams for curriculum depth.
The curriculum-area Impact Teams focus on subject-specific quality — one team per domain, each with a Team Lead and a Data Lead.
Handwriting Team
Improves students’ handwriting skills — legibility, presentation, and fluency — across the Write Right programme.
English Team
Literacy, comprehension, and communication — owns R.E.A.D., S.P.E.A.K., and Write Right implementation.
Maths Team
Advances mathematical understanding and problem-solving — owns M.A.S.T.E.R., Numbots, TTRS, and Numbersense Maths.
Science Team
Fosters curiosity and a scientific mindset — inquiry-led investigation across biology, chemistry, physics, and environmental science.
SDG Team
Integrates the UN Sustainable Development Goals into the curriculum — owns the S.A.V.E. programme and Charity Week.
Languages Team
Hindi, Telugu, and English alongside each other — multilingualism as an asset, not an afterthought.
Arts Team
Owns C.R.E.A.T.E. — the five-discipline arts programme covering Music, Visual Arts, Theatre, Dance, and Media Arts. NCAS-aligned across all five.
Team composition
Every team, six kinds of voice.
Each Impact Team includes the same mix of roles — so no team is led by any single perspective.
Team Lead (Early Years)
Sets direction for the team, coaches EY educators in the year group, liaises with the SLT for resources.
Team Lead (Key Stage)
Sets direction for the team, coaches KS educators in the year group, bridges communication to the SLT.
Data Lead
Manages and analyses data relevant to the team’s objectives. Presents data to inform team decisions.
Educators
The backbone of every team — bringing expertise, classroom experience, and perspectives from across year groups.
Senior Leadership Team Member
Provides administrative support — budget, time, resources — and acts as a conduit between the team and school leadership.
Parent / Student Members (future)
In time, parent and student members will be inducted into Impact Teams — making the educational ecosystem genuinely collaborative.
Impact Teams are not committees. They are deeply embedded in the Intent → Implementation → Impact (III) framework, and every team produces an Annual Implementation Plan (AIP) reviewed termly by the SLT.
Teams meet monthly using the Team Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) model. Meeting templates are consistent across all teams, so communication and decision-making stay clear. The teams use Notion dashboards and Google workspaces to collaborate, share progress, and document their work.
We align Impact Teams with the Education Endowment Foundation’s (EEF) Implementation Guidance — structured implementation as a process, leadership and school climate, defining problems, detailed implementation plans, monitoring and adaptation, and planning for sustainability and scaling.