Staff CPD as key to effective distance learning

Context Vision Trust is a trust in the heart of Greater Manchester serving 1,118 pupils and their families. The demographic intake and context of each school is very different across the Trust. Twenty-eight per cent of children receive free school meals and 25 per cent have English as an additional language (EAL). The trust’s core values centre around: happy, challenged, successful and proud. They are also supporting two other schools with school-to-school support. Challenge The main challenges during the pandemic have been ensuring that all children – regardless of background – continue to receive the highest standard of teaching and learning within a broad and balanced curriculum. Another challenge was ensuring that agreed systems and procedures were communicated and understood by all stakeholders, creating advocacy from the beginning. Once ‘buy-in’ was established, we then had to ensure that staff members’, parents’ and children’s technological skill set was up to