The Shared Horizons Hub Central Team
We are an expanding group of special schools from across London and the surrounding LAs who have formed a Challenge Partner's partnership as the Shared Horizons Hub.
Together we collaborate to support school improvement, leadership development and effective knowledge exchange to be used in everyday practice, in order to benefit all children and add value to each school.
Our Senior Partner
The role of the Senior Partner
A Senior Partner is the Head teacher or Executive Head teacher responsible for a Hub of Network of Excellence partner schools, and is appointed either through proven experience as head of a Teaching School or CEO of a multi-academy trust (MAT), or as an elected representative from within the Hub of schools. The Senior Partners play a vital role at both the national and local level leading Challenge Partners to fulfil our aims through four key areas:
- Leadership of the Network of Excellence and developing the strategy
- Setting the vision for the Hub and developing a collaborative working culture
- Sharing and creating knowledge
- Ensuring the correct infrastructure is in place to support our work in the Network of Excellence
Our Hub Manager
The role of the Hub Manager
The Hub Manager work closely with the Senior Partner in running the Hub.
The Hub Manager will support schools in the Hub by:
- Inducting new schools into the Hub
- Arranging and running Hub meetings
- Conveying the latest news from the national network
- Supporting the schools in the Hub to produce a Hub Action Plan
- In some cases, attending the final meeting for each school's QA Review
- Following up any support requests with the school following their review.
The Hub Manager also work closely with the Challenge Partners' Central Team to ensure that schools are meeting their QA Review commitment, arranging replacement reviewers if necessary and arranging school-to-school support from within the Hub or nationally.