Critical Friendship

Critical Friend visits
This is an opportunity to have a supportive outside perspective for each school's self-directing journey. The Critical Friend would support, question, analyse, clarify, reflect, motivate and encourage success in each school. The visits would normally be for half a day per term but could be increased according to need. Critical Friends are happy to work with senior managers, other staff, governors, parents and pupils to fully understand the school's context and to assist in gathering information for evaluating the project's progress. The typical Critical Friend would be an experienced practitioner, usually a serving or former Head teacher who will have received critical friendship training and is fully conversant with Accelerated Learning.