WELLBEING & WORKLOAD
CHARTER
WELLBEING
We invest in wellbeing and CPD
support to help us achieve a culture
where our staff can thrive. We monitor
this regularly through the staff survey
and employee focus groups.
A range of wellbeing support
mechanisms are available to
all staff to promote a
healthy work
environment.
CPD COMMUNICATION
We have a first class CPD offering for The Trust has a clearly defined
all staff with protected time for CPD
through disaggregated INSET days and communications plan which
regular CPD slots. supports healthy, and consistent
communication across all areas
All staff have the opportunity to of the Trust and within our
participate in CPD. Where school environments.
possible we develop CPD that DATA DROPS
MARKING is accessible remotely and
can be undertaken The Trust is committed to utilising
technology to reduce the workload
We don’t have a prescriptive flexibly. associated with data collection for
Trust wide marking policy, our teachers.
marking process across the The Trust currently only collects data twice
schools is workload-friendly and a year for our secondary schools and three
supportive, designed to ensure times a year for our primary schools.
that marking is not burden We also support the process through
data specialists in our schools
some but has high impact. who can support this process to EMAIL
CULTURE ensure it does not become a
We want to ensure our staff achieve
burden on our teaching
We are committed to ensuring the staff. a work-life balance and there is no
Trust and our schools are great expectation for our staff to work outside
places to work. We have clear their core hours. We have a clearly
defined email policy set out in our faculty
expectations of all our staff to handbook that encourages a healthy
follow our Trust vision and Values attitude towards the use of staff
to create a calm and enjoyable emails. There is no expectation
working environment, PLANNING & that staff have their work emails
POLICY reducing stress and PREPARATION on their phones, in fact we
anxiety across the Trust. actively discourage it.
IMPLEMENTATION We reduce workload for staff through
When implementing policy changes, collaborative planning to share knowledge
and expertise. We share curriculum
we consider the following two keys resources to reduce the workload around
questions: planning and preparation. As a result,
* Will it improve outcomes for daily planning, teachers adapt
for pupils? shared resources to meet the
needs of their class using core
* If a new policy adds to materials rather than planning
workload - what must each lesson from scratch.
we take away?