News & Updates

National Thank a Teacher Day 20th May 2020

National Thank a Teacher Day is a national campaign that the education world, children and young people and the wider general public can get behind to show their appreciation to teachers for their incredible work – particularly since the lock-down. A toolkit is available with all of the following information that you can download here.

We hope this is useful to help promote this campaign in the run up to ‘National Thank a Teacher Day’ on May 20th, so we can get as many expression of thanks for teachers as possible!

Added 7 May 2020

History Subject Leaders Training – New Date

Stuart Tiffany (Mr T) is delivering a day of training for History and Curriculum Leaders. This course is aimed to support curriculum leaders to develop and improve the teaching of history across the primary phase.

Originally planned for the 9th June 2020 at Bourne Westfield this has now been moved to the 5th November 2020.

Please click to view the FLYER and to book please visit Bookitbee.

Updated 7 May 2020

Easter Schools Materials

Pat Eccles and Helen Ackrill have provided a suite of materials for schools to use with their pupils during this unprecedented time which we hope will help whilst the schools are closed. Please visit the following links for the materials:

Booster materials and reading resources: https://padlet.com/peccles61/SATSboostermaterials
Easter 2019 https://padlet.com/peccles61/Easterschool2019
Easter 2020 https://padlet.com/peccles61/2020EasterSchool

Amended 27th March 2020

Teaching Vacancies

Are you aware of ‘Teaching Vacancies’ which is the free, national service for searching and listing teaching jobs. It will help publicly-funded schools save money and attract quality teachers. Visit https://teaching-vacancies.campaign.gov.uk/ for further information.

Added 24 January 2020

Curriculum Training

Bill Lord, LLE is delivering a series of three curriculum sessions, the last one takes place on the 21st May 2020 at Bourne Westfield Primary Academy. Please click to view the FLYER and to book please visit Bookitbee.

Amended 14 February 2020

Supporting Stronger Governance

Lincolnshire Teaching Schools Together (LTT), The Lincolnshire Learning Partnership (LLP), Lincolnshire County Council (LCC), Lincoln Anglican Diocese and the Leaders of Governance (NLGs/LLGs) have all worked together to produce a comprehensive and coherent support offer to ensure stronger governance of schools and academies in Lincolnshire.  Please click here to view the Governance Support Guide.

Added 19 June 2019

SLE Recruitment Round Open

We hope that you are staying safe and adjusting to life during this difficult period – whether you’re working from home or continuing to work in schools.

LTT would like to continue with the planned SLE recruitment for this term, to designate teachers to strengthen our existing team of SLEs and to ensure that we continue to have sufficient capacity available for when school life returns to some kind of normal.

We appreciate that this may not be the right time for some people to be thinking about applying for the role of SLE, whereas there are others who would prefer to take this step whilst not in school full time. We have tried to consider and accommodate everyone by opening the recruitment round up again for this term, which will be followed by a further round late Autumn/ early Spring 2021.

If you meet the eligibility criteria, which is detailed on the LTT website, and you would like to apply, then please complete our application form and email to denise.parker@keystoneteaching.org.uk

LTT Recruitment Timeline

Keystone SLE Application form

May we take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support, creativity and flexibility at this unprecedented time.

Added 27 April 2020

NQT Induction Update

In response to the government guidelines for NQT Induction on the 1st April 2020, please see the links below for the LTT Appropriate Bodies response and information for schools.

LTT Update and FAQs

We have summarised the key points below:

• The TRA have advised that NQTs should not complete induction early. The existing timeframes remain in place.
• NQTs are required to continue gathering evidence (where possible) to demonstrate their progress towards satisfactorily meeting the teachers’ standards. Further guidance regarding support to both NQTs and their Induction Tutors will be issued by LTT at the beginning of summer term 1.

Please be assured that the Appropriate Bodies in Lincolnshire are working collaboratively to support all parties during these challenging times.

Added 2 April 2020

School Improvement Programmes of Support

Did you know that we can offer support to headteachers and school leaders to drive school improvement?  Our Local Leaders of Education (LLEs) can offer coaching and support to new headteachers or offer peer challenge and support to experienced headteachers, ensuring impact in school improvement strategies.  Please see our School Improvement programmes of support flyer for the details on the packages available.

Updated 28 Jan 2020

Coronavirus Update from Keystone

Please be aware that all of our face to face events up to Easter have been cancelled to support social distancing and we are currently looking at alternative ways to support our schools. In light of the announcement today from the DfE all of our moderation events in April and May will be cancelled and we will be in touch to arrange refunds to those that were booked to attend. We thank you at this time for your understanding and if you need any support please do not hesitate to contact us by email.

Added 20 March 2020