Expertise and Support

Welcome to Selby Educational Trust

At Selby Educational Trust, we are proud to offer a comprehensive range of expertise and support services through our strong partnerships.

Since the formation of our Multi-Academy Trust, we have built a dedicated team of specialists with proven experience in driving school improvement. Our consultants bring hands-on knowledge and a track record of success in supporting schools to thrive.

Our Areas of Expertise

We provide tailored support across a wide spectrum of educational and operational areas, including:

• Leadership Development
  Empowering school leaders with strategic guidance and mentoring.

• School Improvement
  Delivering evidence-based strategies to raise standards and outcomes.

• Behaviour Support
  Promoting positive behaviour and inclusive learning environments.

• Information Management
  Helping schools manage data effectively and securely.

• Communications & Technology
  Enhancing digital learning and communication systems.

• Governance
  Strengthening governance structures and compliance.

• Human Resources
  Supporting recruitment, retention, and staff wellbeing.

• Finance
  Providing financial planning, budgeting, and compliance support.

• Project Management
  Leading successful initiatives from concept to completion.

• Estates & Facilities
  Ensuring safe, efficient, and inspiring learning environments.

• Academy Conversion
  Guiding schools through the process of joining our Trust.

Building a Culture of Success

We recognise every school has experts in their chosen field. We also recognise every member of staff wants their own organisation to be successful. We encourage this self-belief from the start. Our approach is one of partnership, listening to colleagues to identify what’s right but also what needs to be improved to make things right. We are open and honest and always lead by example, willingly sharing our knowledge, ideas and techniques. We aim to build mutual trust, creating an environment of joint working, shared values and accelerated, sustained and outstanding improvements that benefit all.

We offer:-

• A culture of cooperation from first joining our partnership

• Bespoke training, advice and guidance for Governors, Head Teachers and Staff

• Network meetings in Research, Early Years, SEND, Well-Being and Safeguarding

• Co-teaching, coaching and mentoring support to ensure schools are target driven and have the self- belief to achieve set goals and targets

• Provide learning and teaching reviews, school support, service reviews

• Head Teacher appraisal

• Regular Headteacher meetings.

• Half termly chairs meetings between all the chairs.

• Governance support including training, advice and guidance.

• Access to high quality CPD support.

What We Will Achieve Together

•  A clear joint vision, values and strategy to  providing excellence  in the education services we each provide.

• Improved results and performance and Ofsted outcomes

• Improved and sustained leadership capacity and expertise

• Effective Governance

• Improved efficiency and effective deployment of key resources

• Facilities fit for 21st century pupils and students

What matters most to each of our partners is that we work together to improve performance. In most cases we find where a problem is identified another partner will already have had the same issue and found a way to successfully address it.   Our partnership provides support when and where it is needed, but most importantly we are accessible, flexible and responsive and will deliver workable solutions suited to individual school partner needs.