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Trevor Averre-Beeson and his team have turned around 3 London Schools in the last 10 years. Their successes include the high-profile transformation of Islington Green School, in North London. The once struggling inner-city school became a symbol of educational failure in the 1990's, hitting the headlines when Tony Blair rejected it for his children. Under Averre-Beeson's leadership, the school passed its inspection in the space of 9 months.

In each of three Headships the team adopted their 'Lilac Sky Strategy', seeing exam results double, and exclusions fall. In the third school exclusions fell from 200 to zero in 18 months.

It is a strategy developed over the last decade that will bring about root and branch improvement to your school, using methods described by Ofsted as "visionary and transformational". This approach enabled Islington Green to move from a failed inspection to a 'good' outcome within 9 months.

Put simply, the Lilac Sky Strategy has seven components:

  • Positive Discipline
    • We will help you to become a calm, well behaved, low exclusion school, which means you can become proactive in leading your school to success - no longer fire-fighting on a daily basis.
  • Teaching Quality
    • Lilac Sky's systematic approach raises teaching standards by 75% within the first year, which will enable you to focus on raising GCSE scores, including English and Maths. With more effective staff, the search for 'hard to get' shortage subject specialists can stop.
  • Assessment
    • Our complete ICT-based approach to assessment plus administrative package, provides comprehensive support for your teachers, students and parents, thereby allowing you to lead your school more effectively.
  • The School Environment
    • Lilac Sky’s Design team will take care of your classrooms and corridors, helping you to radically improve your school’s ethos and learning environment, take more care over your carbon footprint and have a more relaxed school.
  • Pastoral Support
    • Our approach will deliver zero exclusions using a totally inclusive approach and allowing you to be proactive in dealing with student and family issues before they reach crisis point. Parents who could have been your enemies become powerful allies.
  • School Organisational Capacity
    • We will help remove the struggle of the day to day organisation of every aspect of school business. Assisting with finances, premises management, audit systems and administrative processes, thus enabling you - and your team to focus on student progress - the job they trained for!
  • Communications and Public Relations
    • Lilac Sky’s Design and Communications team will ensure that you build a good self image and positive profile with the public, that reflects your school’s growing reputation. Year 7 will become over-subscribed when the community discovers what a great school you have and recruitment stops being a major issue.
  • Who are Lilac Sky Schools working with?

    • In Somerset

      We have had a year long relationship with Chilton School in Bridgwater. Pat Hollinghurst, the head there, has been innovative and courageous asking Lilac Sky Schools to work extensively with her and the school’s staff to introduce various components of the Lilac Sky Strategy. So far we have worked on the schools approach to Leadership, Teaching for Learning and Positive Discipline. Pat says that working with Lilac Sky Schools has challenged her thinking and that it has been a real learning experience. Relationships for Learning improved hugely when the Lilac Sky strategy was introduced.

      We are in discussion with the Local Authority in Somerset to support a wider group of their schools in the National Challenge

      In London

      We are working with 12 schools in one south London Borough providing Lilac Sky’s unique solutions in the area of Pastoral Support and Positive Discipline. The Local Authority is concerned to ensure that all students have the opportunity to participate fully in their education. Lilac Sky School’s belief in the ‘universal entitlement’ to education, means that we work to find whatever means we can to ensure every student can succeed.

      In Essex

      We are working with a group of schools in Essex to ensure that student’s are fully supported in school even where they have Learning or behavioural difficulties.

      We are intensively supporting one of the schools to move out of the National Challenge – and improve its approach to managing students and Teaching for Learning.

      The North West

      We are working with a group of Academies in the North of England – mentoring, coaching and developing their Leadership capacity both in the implementation stages of the Academy process and during the start up of the new Academies.

      Lilac Sky Schools

      When we work with schools – it means that one of our team of Lilac Sky Strategy Advisors works in school every week for at least a term.

      • By doing so we get to know the school, it’s community and the teachers and students. We work at a Strategic Level with senior leaders but also get in the classroom and on to the corridors working directly with teachers and children to affect change.
      • Since we started work at the beginning of this year Lilac Sky Schools has worked with over 25 schools. Helping, to help the schools, help their young people be the best that they can be.

Trevor Averre-Beeson has founded Lilac Sky Schools Ltd and has become its first Director of Education Services. More information on Trevor Averre-Beeson: www.trevoraverrebeeson.com

 

 

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