Kidderminster Primary Schools Alliance
KPSA is a joint partnership between Cookley Primary School, Chaddesley Corbett Primary School, Comberton Primary School, Offmore Primary School & St Catherine’s CE Primary School.
The aims of the partnership are:
To improve the outcomes in the key areas of teaching and learning, behavior and well-being and achievement through:
- Collaboration - the sharing of expertise, good practice, knowledge and data
- Increased capacity (shared common policies and resources)
- Better opportunities for high quality professional development
- Shared quality assurance - school to school visits (similar to Ofsted) and
- moderation (ensuring assessment judgements are fair and accurate)
- Improved economies of scale (for example bulk purchasing, shared costs)
Benefits of the alliance
- Sharing resources and provisions and expertise across the schools particularly for curriculum subject leadership,
- Shared professional development for staff and the schools are able to build on established classroom approaches,
- Allowing all staff to collaborate and improve standards in all schools (eg Metacognition work),
- The cost effectiveness of shared work (such as CPD), makes previously unaffordable training accessible for all schools.
KPSA Events 2023 - 24
We have been pleased to work collaboratively through
- Cookley hosted Reading & Maths Competitions – May 2023
- St Catherine’s led balance ability sessions with Reception – June 2023
- Offmore led an upper KS2 Football tournament – July 2023
- Chaddesley organised an orienteering morning – September 2023
- Musical theatre day at Comberton – November 2023
Upcoming events:
- Cookley hosted Reading & Maths Competitions – May 2024
- St Catherine’s Arts Day – May 2024
- Offmore sports tournament – July 2024