Blue Sky, part of Romero Catholic Academy

08/06/2025

Interested in training to become a Primary school teacher?

Through our partnership with Bishop Challoner Teaching School we have places available on our SCITT courses for September. This route offers the perfect blend of theory and understanding (through training with Bishop Challoner and Bath Spa University) and practical application (with placements at our Romero schools and wider local network schools).

We have a places available on both our salaried and training route options. For more information or to apply follow these links:

https://find-teacher-training-courses.service.gov.uk/course/21L/R486 -financial-support

https://find-teacher-training-courses.service.gov.uk/course/21L/B750

The Romero Catholic Academy

14/11/2024

We are delighted to be working with Coventry Local Authority in relaunching CHIP 2. This is a fantastic opportunity for heads within the city to see the working life of different schools and reflect with other heads.

For more information please comment or email [email protected]

12/11/2024

We're excited to be able to share our latest project.

We've been working on a redesign of Key Stage 3 Reading with leaders and teachers at Cardinal Wiseman. We've taken the VIPERS reading domains from KS2 and the syllabus guides from AQA Lit and Lang (and added in some wider subject content from our curriculum experts) to create our own reading framework.

We're initially trialling this in Year 7 with an implementation plan (based on the EEF model) that will see this fully operational by Easter. I had the pleasure of sharing this with SLT today and seeing them buy in to the vision of how this can drive Reading as an element of English and as a key fundamental to teaching and learning across all curriculum areas has only added to the excitement. The idea of an explicit, skills-focused curriculum that offer consistency and positive synergy all curriculum areas has such potential.

The work is rooted in the EEF Literacy Guides (for all three key stages) and wider research. I'd also like to thank Barr's Hill for welcoming me to their amazing Bridge provision recently which has shaped some of this thinking to.

If you'd like to know more or have any tips, bits of advice or anything please do reach out.

12/11/2024

Last week we attended the BDES Primary Curriculum Working Party Group. Lots of powerful discussions and sharing of best practice on all things related to Oracy across the diocese.

The 'We Need to Talk' paper formed a key part of those discussions and instantly brought a shared understanding amongst the schools represented. We've summarised the key notes in this infograph and the full report can be found here (https://oracyeducationcommission.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/We-need-to-talk-2024.pdf).

22/10/2024

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22/10/2024

Brilliant morning delivering the NPQLPM for the Coventry and Central Warwickshire Teaching School Hub. This was our final PLG together. A fantastic cohort who were reflective, shared lots of brilliant practice and engaged in deep discussions.

17/10/2024

Just a little something that has come up with a few teachers in our Trust that has been really well received. If running a laptop/PC and an interactive whiteboard or projection screen, the 'screen extend' function allows for multi-tasking and dual functionality. Two small snippets: an EYFS teacher loved the idea of having resources for the children to see and provision mapping for the adults to check back to; a Year 5 teacher loved the idea of having the register on the laptop whilst still showing morning work for the class.

The Romero Catholic Academy
Coventry Catholic Schools' Partnership

11/10/2024

We are delighted to share our infograph summary of the DfE Sports Premium Guide Update and the DfE Effective Examples Publication. The full link to both can be found on the infographs.

If you have any Sports Premium or PE related questions please reach out to us.

21/05/2024

Train to Teach with us. We still have places on our training route option for primary. To apply visit the link below or for more information email [email protected]

04/05/2024

Interesting move…..

What would you change?

Sir Martyn Oliver says 'it isn't helpful to cram' full inspection detail into ungraded visits

24/04/2024

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UPDATE: No longer taking submissions

BBC Bitesize are looking for primary teachers to take part in online focus groups. We are interested in hearing about your experience of teaching cross curricular topics. Please contact [email protected] for more information by 30th April 2024.