Ealing Learning Partnership (ELP) was recently featured in Tes magazine (12 March 2025) in an article which focused on how cross-borough partnership has driven school improvement in one of London’s most diverse and complex boroughs.
The article describes the eight-year journey, with 85 schools in the borough now united under ELP’s “No learner left behind; no school left behind” mission. The partnership has seen improvements in attendance, outcomes for pupils with SEND and race equity.
Academic outcomes within the borough are now well above the national average across every key stage, and Progress 8 scores for local schools have been in the top five nationally for successive years.
In the article, Julie Lewis (Director of Learning Standards and School Partnerships at Ealing Council), Tessa Hodgson, (Headteacher at Oaklands Primary School, founding chair of ELP and cluster lead) and Dr Clare Rees MBE (Principal Quality and Partnership Lead 3-11 at Ealing Learning Partnership) explore how ELP’s “high challenge, low threat” model, characterised by learning clusters, peer enquiry and review, and informal support networks, has forged a borough-wide ecosystem of collective purpose and high-quality practice.
A snippet is available here (with the full piece available to Tes subscribers): https://www.tes.
