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The single biggest in-school factor in pupil outcomes is the quality of teaching, leadership, and support that surrounds every child. That quality is built and sustained through high-grade, evidence-informed professional development. Whether you need a one-off INSET, a sustained leadership programme, or bespoke training for a specific team, well-designed CPD turns ambition into capability.
Below, we explain how our training and professional development work supports schools, academies, trusts, alternative provisions, and SEND units to grow the people who change children’s lives.
What Is Our Training and Professional Development Offer?
Our training is built and delivered by experienced school leaders, inspectors, and subject specialists. We design programmes around your context, your priorities, and your people — drawing on the best of evidence-informed practice, the renewed 2026 Ofsted framework, and what we know works in real schools.
We deliver INSET days, twilight sessions, multi-session programmes, leadership development, and bespoke training for individual teams. We can train staff at every level — from teaching assistants to executive leaders and trustees.
Who Is Our Training For?
It is designed for maintained schools, academies, multi-academy trusts, alternative provisions, and SEND units and hubs. Headteachers, executive leaders, CPD leads, governors, and trustees use our training to build capability where it matters most — in classrooms, in middle leadership, in senior teams, and at board level.
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What Can We Train On?
We offer a wide range of training, all tailored to your context, including:
- Curriculum design, sequencing and quality
- Adaptive teaching, including cold-call questioning, retrieval practice and tiered vocabulary
- Behaviour and culture
- Attendance and persistent absence
- SEND, EAL, and Pupil Premium
- Safeguarding and KCSIE updates
- Middle leadership development
- Senior leadership and headship preparation
- Governance and trust board development
- Preparing for inspection under the renewed Ofsted framework
- Subject and phase leadership
How Does Our Training Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision?
1
Build capability where you need it most
Generic training rarely shifts practice. We design every session around your school’s priorities, so people leave with skills they will use the next day.
2
Anchor practice in evidence and the renewed framework
Our training reflects what the research says works and what the 2026 Ofsted framework looks for. Staff are confident their effort is in the right places.
3
Strengthen middle leadership
Middle leaders are the engine room of school improvement. Our middle leadership programmes build confidence, clarity, and capability across subjects and phases.
4
Prepare aspiring senior leaders
Succession planning needs sustained investment. We develop your aspiring leaders so the next promotion is internal, prepared, and successful.
5
Equip governors and trustees
Governance is a complex, technical role. Our training builds the strategic understanding and challenge skills boards need to govern well.
6
Deliver value for money
We tailor every session to avoid wasted time on what your team already knows. Every hour invested moves your school forward.
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How Our Training Works
- 1We start with a conversation about your context, your priorities, and the audience.
- 2We design the session or programme around your specific needs, drawing on evidence and inspection expectations.
- 3We deliver in person or online, in a format that works for your team.
- 4We provide practical, school-ready resources to support implementation.
- 5We can follow up with coaching, observation, or further sessions to embed the learning.
What You Get at the End
From every training engagement, you receive:
- A high-quality, tailored session or programme delivered by an expert
- Clear, evidence-informed content aligned to the renewed framework
- Practical resources your team can use straight away
- A more confident, more capable group of staff or leaders
- Clear next steps to embed the learning in everyday practice
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Key Features of Our Service
Tailored, never generic
— Every session is built around your priorities, your audience, and your context.
Delivered by credible practitioners
— Our trainers are former senior leaders, inspectors and subject specialists with deep school experience.
Practical and immediately usable
— Our training is designed for the Monday morning that follows, not just the day of delivery.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
Training only matters if it changes practice. Our trainers know schools because they have led them, inspected them, and supported them through change. We bring evidence, experience, and credibility, and we design every programme to land in the real working life of your team.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We will listen to your priorities, explain the options, and design the right programme for your context.
- Once we agree the brief, we confirm everything in writing and plan delivery around your calendar. It is as straightforward as that.
- Contact us today to discuss how our training and professional development can strengthen your team in your school, academy, trust, or alternative provision.
- We are ready to help you grow the people who change children’s lives.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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