Leadership Incentive Grant (LIG) Collaboratives
The Leadership Incentive Grant is a three-year DfES initiative, launched in January 2003 to promote leadership development in secondary schools where less than 30% of pupils attain five or more A*-C grades at GCSE.  Schools that are eligible for the grant receive a sum of £125,000 a year.  Part of this funding has to be used for collaborative activities with other schools.

 

There are three collaboratives in Croydon.  Each undertook an assessment of needs using an audit tool and produced a collaborative plan to trigger the grant.  All three plans were judged 'excellent, a model for others' by the DfES.

 

Croydon Excellence in Cities Cluster (EiCC) Collaborative

Archbishop Lanfranc School

Ashburton Community School

Haling Manor High School

Norbury Manor High School

The Selhurst High School for Boys

 

Priorities are: supporting vulnerable schools; developing middle managers; developing assessment for learning; remodelling the curriculum to provide inclusive achievement opportunities; developing pupils' leadership skills; and staff retention.

 

Contact: Carol Jones, LIG Collaborative Consultant, Davidson Professional Centre, telephone 020 8655 1299, e-mail: carol_jones@croydon.gov.uk

 

Croydon Personal Best EiCC Collaborative

Addington High School

Edenham High School

Selsdon High School

 

Priorities are: strengthening leadership of teaching & learning; partnership between subjects; assessment managers' partnership; bursars' partnership; pupil leadership.

 

Contact: Pat Holland, LIG Collaborative Consultant, EiCC Office, Rowdown Primary School, telephone 01689 843890, e-mail: pat.holland@naeaz.org.uk

 

Stanley Technical-St Mary's-Thomas More-Westwood Collaborative

Stanley Technical High School

St Mary's High School

Thomas More School

Westwood Languages College

 

Priorities include: supporting floor target school; developing leadership teams and those with whole school responsibility; developing middle leaders and heads of year; building management capacity; and developing pupils' leadership skills.

 

Contact: John Johnson, LIG Collaborative Consultant, Education Department, Croydon, telephone 020 8760 5459, e-mail: john_johnson@croydon.gov.uk