Leadership Development

At Turner Schools, we believe that by empowering leaders at all levels, we will create great schools.

In order to achieve this, we support all staff to realise their leadership potential through providing high quality Leadership Development opportunities, thereby enabling colleagues to develop their talents and discover exciting new career paths.

We are committed to providing a wide range of CPD opportunities, including online learning and, where relevant, access to external, nationally recognised leadership training and qualifications through the Ambition Institute. In addition, we offer more bespoke, practical in-school training, including the chance to shadow other leaders, receive high quality coaching, or undertake whole-school Change Management projects, supervised and supported by expert leaders. Furthermore, our standardised approach to providing high quality line management ensures that each meeting provides the chance for professional challenge and personal development.

We offer a variety of pathways, based on international leadership expert, Andy Buck’s, Leadership Matters approach, and underpinned by our Trust Leadership Principles, which provide a comprehensive path from Aspiring Middle Leaders to Trust Leaders. Currently, our training pathways range from the Aspiring Middle Leader pathway, through New and Expert Middle Leader training, to courses for Aspiring Senior Leaders and Expert Senior Leaders.

Turner Schools Leadership Principles

Chartered College of Teaching

Turner Schools is proud to have been issued with Institutional Member Status as part of the Chartered College of Teaching.

This status recognises and celebrates our Trust as an organisation who is committed to ongoing professional development, empowering our People to be knowledgeable, passionate and well respected in their profession through membership, accreditation and evidence informed practice.

MATT TATE

Director of Secondary Education

Matthew started his career as a Religious Education Teacher before joining the London Challenge Future Leaders programme, a fast-track training programme that sought to identify talented leaders and place them in challenging schools.

Through this programme, he worked as part of leadership teams in London Challenge Schools. Moving to Kent he joined a School in Special Measures seeing it moved to Good in 24 months.

After successful work with Kent County Council supporting two schools in serious difficulties, he gained his first headship as the founding Headteacher of a Free School, securing the school’s building, good Ofsted judgment and its status as the 5th most oversubscribed school in Kent. He was then appointed Headteacher of a challenging school in serious difficulties and has overseen sustained improvements, including the school being in the top ten most improved schools in the country and being awarded “Best School” In the National Social Mobility Awards.

Matthew has expertise in school improvement, SEN, Safeguarding and Behaviour and is an Inclusive Leader of Education working across schools to improve inclusion.

Outside of school, he is passionate about motorbikes and cars and serves as the Chair of ThinkForward, a national charity that empowers young people through long- term coaching that gets them ready for the world of work.

Louise LyTHGoe

Director of Primary Education

Louise has an extensive knowledge and understanding of primary education, including curriculum design and implementation, teaching and learning strategy, and leadership development.

Whilst working as a classroom teacher and completing her masters degree, Louise coached other teachers through the National Support School network and developed excellent subject leadership skills.

Louise then moved into senior leadership roles including Head of a school requiring significant improvement, transforming the school culture and quality of education and securing pupil outcomes well above national in all key stages.

In 2019 Louise began working for Turner Schools, driving school improvement across the trust primaries through her work leading the Primary Improvement Team. During this time Louise was especially proud to lead one of the Trust primaries as Interim Headteacher, securing a Good Ofsted judgement for the first time in the school’s history.

Louise Lythgoe qualified as an Ofsted Inspector in 2023, completed the NPQEL and is an Associate of the Association of Education Advisers.

Louise helped to establish and is trustee of a charity helping to alleviate child poverty in South India, enjoys spending time with her two young children and long walks in the countryside.

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