In this podcast, our Head of Music and Performing Arts, Catherine Barker, highlights some excellent examples of Education with Character across the Group and discusses the benefits they are bringing to pupils.

This includes the value of independent practice, group performance and professionalism for Goresbrook School's Big Band initiative, and the way AKS Lytham pupils are developing empathy and compassion through drama.

Education with Character is a core principle of United Learning's Framework for Excellence. For more information about this, and our Music and Performing Arts work, please visit our website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk.

In this podcast, Shaun Dowling, the Group's Head of Sport, describes in more detail how Education with Character is delivered through PE and sport in our schools.

From the way team games help develop collaboration, strategy, fair play and respect to the concept of 'personal best' and persevering through challenge, there are many strong examples from both the primary and secondary phases.

Education with Character is a core principle of United Learning's Framework for Excellence. For more information, please visit our website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk.

In this podcast, United Learning's Head of Music and Performing Arts, Catherine Barker, discusses how our schools embed Education with Character within the arts curriculum.

She introduces some of the opportunities and experiences we aim to give students – through the curriculum and beyond – that help to shape young people and how they see the world.

Education with Character is a core principle of United Learning's Framework for Excellence. For more information about this, and our Music and Performing Arts work, please visit our website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk.

In this podcast, United Learning's Head of Sport Shaun Dowling explores the significant role of PE and school sport in delivering an Education with Character.

He also explains the approach of our Group's common PE and sport curriculum and assessment model, which allows for pupils to excel at a range of character and leadership attributes as well as in pure skills-based physical ability.

Education with Character is a core principle of United Learning's Framework for Excellence. For more information, please visit our website: www.unitedlearning.org.uk.

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

In this podcast, we explore five key issues that we believe primary leaders should focus on in order to secure ongoing improvements and maintain strong pupil outcomes.

For more information, to ask any questions or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

In this podcast, we look at the importance of pupil-focused learning in the Early Years. From your classroom layout to the role of the adult, we discuss how you can structure lessons in a way that enables children to best develop their own initiated play and activity and take that learning to the next stage.

For more information or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

We briefly focus in on why the last three podcasts – School Development Planning, Lesson Coaching and Win-Win Conversations – are such useful tools for school leaders.

For more information, to ask any questions or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

In this podcast, we explore Win-Win Conversations as a useful technique for facilitating difficult conversations between school colleagues that result in positive strategies and outcomes.

For more information, to ask any questions or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

In this podcast, we present Lesson Coaching as a better alternative to traditional lesson observations. The practice is more manageable, more regular and more effective, giving every teacher the 1:1 CPD they deserve.

For more information, to ask any questions or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].

United Learning's Primary Podcasts with our Primary Director Darran Ellison-Lee:

In this podcast, we explore how School Development Planning can best be used in primaries to drive continuous improvement, and how this differs from your SEF and Implementation Plan. Key areas of focus include where ownership lies, how to prioritise issues and evaluation.

For more information, to ask any questions or to suggest future topics, please contact the Primary Team via [email protected].