Federation
Essendine and Hallfield Primary Schools have been federated since September 2022 and together form the North Westminster Federation.
What is a Federation?
A federation is formed when two or more schools remain separate in law but are managed together by a single Governing Board. The adopted model maintains Essendine Primary and Hallfield Primary as separate organisations, but with the management of both schools are brought together under the supervision of a single Governing Board. The arrangement builds on the strengths of both schools.
We believe that our Federation benefits our schools in the following ways enabling us to:
- Drive forward sustainable school improvement.
- Motivate and retain outstanding leadership that significantly raise standards and progress for all of our children.
- Recruit, train and the retain the very best teachers through continued professional development;
- Develop outstanding teaching for all our learners, embedding rigorous standards, in curriculum and assessment.
- Enrich the curriculum by providing innovative opportunities to develop pupils’ knowledge and understanding of the world, raising self-esteem and promoting pupil wellbeing.
- Increase the level of aspiration and opportunities for our communities.
- Regularly review opportunities to increase financial benefits and efficiencies across the two schools.
- Provide resilience in the ever-changing landscape of education
- Govern across the Federation drawing on specialist expertise (for example, SEND, pre-school and primary education) ensuring the needs of children and families are being met.
Our Federation has enabled us to build strong and long-lasting partnership between our schools, work with education partners and maintain the strong and beneficial relationship we have with the Local Authority. In so doing, we have established a system of self-sustaining, continuing school improvement with outstanding and innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Both of our schools have continued to be individual schools with their own character and identities. Each school has also retained its own budget.