What is the DLP?

‘Stronger together for our pupils’

Our Vision

That we are leading the way in education for Oldham children and young people enabling them to enjoy learning and achieve well.

To achieve our vision we will ensure:

The community is passionate about learning.
Everyone’s point of view is heard and appreciated.
Each school’s curriculum is engaging, inspiring and challenging for all learners.
Children and young people experience excellent learning and teaching and experience a rich programme of extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities; ensuring them to thrive and flourish within a vibrant, happy, inclusive and safe learning environment. 
The adults employed to work with them are valued and challenged to be the best they can be.
We develop capable, independent, lifelong learners prepared for global citizenship in the twenty-first century.

Our Values

Dovestone Learning Partnership is founded on the values of respect, trust and solidarity together with a passion for education. For our church schools this is also embedded in the Christian faith.

We are a group of schools that celebrate our individual character. Our schools may have different systems, pedagogies and cultures, but we understand the need to focus on learning and the impact of teaching to improve outcomes for the children and young people in our schools. Together we will endeavor to ensure that the children and young people in our schools receive a rich variety of learning. This commitment to developing a high quality curriculum, delivered by well trained, effective teaching and support staff, and the sharing of expertise is at the heart of our vision.

Our Aims

The overarching aims of the Dovestone Learning Partnership are:

To enable distinctive, aspirational schools.
To encourage innovation and inspired decision-making.
To build capacity, resilience and determination.
To develop strong leadership, governance and accountability.
To strengthen cross-phase working and transition.
To enable wider opportunities for all within the school community and beyond.
To share expertise and best practice across our schools that is informed by evidence based research and up-to-date pedagogy.
To provide exciting and relevant CPD opportunities for staff to look forward and stay ahead of the game.
To support the well-being of pupils, staff and wider school community.
To deliver long term sustainability through efficiencies and savings, that release resources to improve the rate of progress for all pupils.

Our Measurable Outcomes and Impacts are:

Improved outcomes for all children, every child expected to make progress at least in line with, and for many above, national expectations.
Every school will be well led, and effectively governed.
All staff are motivated to self-improve and aspire to excellence.
All schools are to be judged good or better following Inspections.
Schools will be valued by their community.

Responsibility and Accountability

Dovestone Learning Partnership is a group of schools bound together by:

A commitment towards the common vision through embracing the core values.
A commitment to develop and strengthen a culture of collaboration.
Boards of Governors that support inspiring, individual excellence for all learners across the partnership and adhere to the legal responsibilities expected.
An expectation that all schools within the partnership will contribute to school to school support whilst maintaining focus on delivering a high quality provision within our own organisation.
Drive and enthusiasm to keep moving forward for the benefit of children and young people and the whole school community.
A commitment to take responsibility for the future of the schools within the partnership including taking difficult, meaningful and timely decisions.

Working with Trade Unions

The Dovestone Learning Partnership (a Co-operative Trust) recognises the importance of professional associations and actively encourages its employees to become members of the appropriate trades unions and to become school reps. The Trust holds termly Joint Consultative and Negotiating Committee (JCNC) meetings with trade union officers and officials of those associations and encourages its schools to hold school-based Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) meetings with their accredited trades union school reps. The Trust seeks to foster and maintain a professional and fruitful relationship with those associations. The Trust pledges that it will always consult with those professional associations before making any changes to terms and conditions or working practices.