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Institute of Education The Wonder Institute of Education provides a wide range of professional development and training opportunities for all educational colleagues and stakeholders. In addition, we have developed a Wonder curriculum and assessment plan for primary, secondary and sixth form education.

Chris Pearce Trust Director of the Institute of Education View Profile

Kirsten Russell Trust Assistant Director of the Institute of Education and Training School View Profile

Kirsty McMurdo Trust Head of Teaching and Practitioner Development View Profile

Gareth Davies Trust Head of Curriculum and Assessment View Profile

Victoria Tomlinson

Trust Administrator for the Institute of Education

Wonder News

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* ...

6 August 2024

Kingfisher Data Management

As a Trust we have developed a proprietary data management system called Kingfisher. It began fundamentally as a data display system for teachers and ...

1 July 2024

Introducing Whitby School

We are delighted to share the new identity for Whitby School as we bring the school communities of Caedmon College, Eskdale School and Whitby ...

1 July 2024

The difference an effective teacher makes

The recent release of the NASEN Teacher Handbook: SEND makes this clear. Here, the importance of the role of the teacher is acknowledged: ‘The ...

23 May 2024

Opening Doors with Effective Writing

In September 2023, Trust primaries met for a full-day workshop on writing. The workshop represented a culmination of months of hard work from primary ...

23 May 2024

Sharing Success with Local MP

Graham Stuart MP met pupils and staff at Longcroft School and Sixth Form to see for himself the amazing progress that the school has ...

23 May 2024

Empower Big Conversation

How do we empower our school communities? As the three project groups get underway from our Big Conversation about our Educate value, we now ...

3 May 2024

The Wonder of Play

The benefits of play We believe that creativity, positive experiences of learning, independence, and challenge are best delivered through high quality play, and we ...

6 March 2024

Scientists experience Virtual Reality!

Through the creation of immersive, interactive environments that improve learning, simulate real-world scenarios, and enhance empathy, virtual reality is poised to play a significant ...

6 March 2024

Effective Feedback

There is no such thing as a silver bullet in education, but effective feedback comes very close. The EEF places effective feedback as something ...