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Welcome to theInstitute of Education

Welcome to the
Institute of Education

We embrace the values of educate, empower, engage, and enrich to create a remarkable learning environment. Our mission is to provide a transformative education that goes beyond the traditional boundaries, fostering a love for learning and empowering pupils to reach their full potential.

Professional Development

Designed to empower colleagues and achieve higher pupil outcomes. Our professional development is delivered by active teaching practitioners and educational leaders with the content being evidence-informed, up to date and contextually relevant. We also work with strategic partners to provide training delivered from our Centres of Excellence across the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

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Opening doors of opportunity and empowering individuals

The Wonder Institute of Education team work as servant leaders, to promote positive change and growth for the children, colleagues, and schools, both within and outside of the Wonder Learning Partnership.

Our vision is to create an educational ecosystem where professionals are empowered, pupils’ lives are enriched, and every learner is equipped to thrive in a world in which the only constant is change. We are committed to providing dynamic, inspirational teaching that is accessible to all.

Together in Partnership Across Yorkshire

We recognise that teacher time is precious and professional development can present a financial challenge. Our Centres of Excellence offer a place for cluster partnership working and provide a platform for meaningful collaboration, enabling schools to learn from one another with the needs of schools, rural communities, and pupils at the heart of our decision making.

The content of our training is evidence-informed, up to date and contextually relevant to classrooms, schools and the regional areas across North Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire.

We are also delighted to be working with the following key, strategic partners to deliver our offer: York St John’s University, supporting our early careers development; Vantage Teaching School to lead on the delivery of an NPQ in Leading Teaching, and our friends and colleagues at Ryedale Learning Trust to support us in delivering our training goals.

Together we can do something remarkable, so that all our children and young people have a first-class educational experience. Whether you work with us already or we have yet to meet, we look forward to spending time with you and learning together.

Wonder News

28 February 2025

Spotlight on Research: Professor Jonathan Glazzard

Introducing Professor Jonathan Glazzard from the School of Education at the University of Hull: My name is Jonathan Glazzard and I am a Professor ...

28 February 2025

Supporting Children’s Mental Health

Know Yourself, Grow Yourself: Children at Stamford Bridge Primary School fully immersed themselves in Place 2 Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week theme of Know ...

20 January 2025

Sir Bob’s Castle Library

Children and staff at Pocklington Junior School were bursting with excitement as they officially opened their new school library. The theme for the library, ...

20 January 2025

Forest of Knowledge

What started as an idea on paper from the fabulous imagination of children has now become an incredible space to enhance learning and create ...

20 December 2024

Catering Manager Wins Award

Kerry Murray, Catering Manager for Chartwells who provide the catering service to the school was nominated by Geraint Davies, Regional Manager for their ‘Be ...

20 December 2024

Wonder’s Writing Journey

Wonder Learning Partnership’s journey with writing began with a learning walk in each primary. We identified the parts of the writing process that we ...

22 November 2024

Learning Distractors

To view or not to view; what is a distractor? I often participate in training sessions where the starting point is Willingham’s working memory ...

6 November 2024

Executive Functioning

Secondary School Transition – NASEN’s SEND conference. While the term “executive functioning” is no doubt familiar to early years practitioners, it may be less ...

24 October 2024

Happiness Heroes

Pocklington Junior School has launched its myHappymind programme which is designed for schools to help prepare today’s children for tomorrow’s world by building resilient, ...

9 October 2024

Empowering Feedback

As part of our Trust’s commitment to ‘living our values into being’ we start this year by thanking colleagues and our wider school family ...

9 October 2024

Commendation for GCSE pupil

Staff were delighted to celebrate with pupils, Sixth Form students and their families as this year’s A Level and GCSE examination results were released. ...

9 October 2024

Results Success!

We are delighted and proud to announce an amazing set of results for our Year 13 students today with 80% of grades awarded A* ...