{"id":18,"date":"2023-04-20T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T09:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:39:36","slug":"why-join-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/why-join-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Join Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If your school\u2019s values align with ours, then please get in touch for an informal conversation.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Northern Lights Learning Trust<\/strong> was established in 2016. We are committed to making a positive difference to education<\/strong> in the North East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Teaching School Hub<\/strong> is one of just 87 in the country for excellence for teacher training and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set up by the Department for Education, in 2023 we added the Early Years Stronger Practice Hub: North East<\/strong> to provide advice, share good practice, and offer evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasons why we know our schools are stronger together: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Improved outcomes for pupils <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Financial benefits \u2013reducing outgoings and shared purchasing power<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Collaborative working<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Executive and Central Team expertise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Opportunities to save money through
shared services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Autonomy to retain the distinctiveness of your school<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Retain Local Governing Body<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Clear scheme of delegation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Expertise of school improvement and teacher development team: trained Ofsted inspectors, trained SIAMS inspector (Church schools), NLE, SLEs, school and Trust support, subject expertise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Opportunity to be an integral part of the DfE \u2018golden thread\u2019 of teacher development<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 A registered sponsor Trust \u2013 approved by the DfE to support schools joining our Trust<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Development and support for Governors.
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If you are considering joining our Trust, now is a key time in its growth \u2013 we are evolving and developing as we increase in size and scope. Your voice will be heard.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 See our Northern Lights’ values here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Download brochure<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Click here to read about the many ways we work together to ensure that young people and adults are given the opportunities and support to flourish. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If your school\u2019s values align with ours, then please get in touch for an informal conversation. Northern Lights Learning Trust was established in 2016. We are committed to making a positive difference to education in the North East. Our Teaching School Hub is one of just 87 in the country for excellence for teacher training and development. Set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northernlights.education\/nllt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}