VNET EDUCATION CIC

Membership 26/27

Why Join VNET

Joining VNET Education CIC provides schools with a powerful, collaborative framework designed to accelerate school improvement and elevate pupil outcomes. As a not-for-profit, member-led organisation, VNET can help you tackle your specific challenges. Join us to become part of a thriving community of educators, ensuring no leader has to face these challenges alone.

What's Included

School improvement partners

Leadership and management

Guided strategic school self-evaluation and improvement planning: sessions to support aligning SIDPs with the new Ofsted report card system and self-evaluation expectations
Using your IDSR to drive improvement for all pupils: guided sessions using your school's data to drive pupil insight and achievement
Leadership development for inspection readiness: online twilight for your SLT on equipping school leaders with skills for strategic oversight and governance
Leadership peer review groups: collaborate and innovate with fellow leaders
Leadership series: half-termly sessions designed for middle and developing leaders
HMI updates: Allowing you to keep up to date with developments to the inspection framework

Teaching and learning

Conferences

Networks

Staff Insets – training for the whole team!

Projects

Projects offer us a way to bring experts into the county to share a wider perspective with our members. One project of your choice is included in your membership, additional projects are available to book at £350+VAT each.

SEND – Gary Aubin: What is good curriculum design for SEND and Inclusion – set your curriculum re-draft off in the right direction by addressing the needs of all children.
Mixed Age, High Standards: This project is designed to strengthen leadership approaches so that mixed-age schools become high-clarity, high-expectation communities, not overstretched ones.
Writing – the essentials: Three online sessions across spring and summer addressing three key areas. Send all your staff!

Additional CPD

Specialist CPD for SEND

Our range of CPD for Special Schools has been commissioned by, and in conjunction with, expert practitioners in Special Schools. This specialist CPD is suitable for special schools as well as mainstream schools with staff working in SRBs, internal ESPs, or Internal Alternative Provisions.

Sessions will include for example:

Curriculum for all
Reading for all
Writing for all
The hidden sensory systems
Self-regulation and a differentiated progressive self-regulation curriculum
Provision for autistic people

Member prices range from £50+VAT twilight to £150+VAT half-day in person.

Improving Teaching Programme

SparkED: Reflective Practice

Perfect for any teachers who need to update their knowledge and strengthen the consistency and impact of their classroom teaching, this collaborative professional development programme from VNET and Synergy MAT focused on improving the quality of teaching. Through structured input, collaboration and purposeful reflection, teachers are both supported and expected to test, refine and evaluate their practice. Four in-person sessions which include:

Precision Questioning: Sharpening routines to deepen thinking
Adaptive Teaching: Responding flexibly to diverse learner needs
Live Assessment: Using real-time feedback to drive progress
Impact Evaluation: Reflecting on growth to ensure long-term change.

Member price £500+VAT per delegate (non member £650+VAT)

Subject Leadership Series – New Curriculum

Our Subject Expertise Series will offer CPD specifically designed to navigate the 2025/26 National Curriculum updates in the Spring and Summer Terms of 2027. Led by subject specialists, these sessions empower primary subject leaders and co-ordinators to feel confident in integrating changes in their subject areas.

MFL, Music, Art, DT, Computing, Citizenship, PE

Member price £50+VAT per subject or £300 for all seven subjects.

Online CPD for TAs – New Series for 26/27

TAs play a vital role in supporting teaching to help ensure all children can access learning and make progress. By building knowledge, skills, and confidence, this training series strengthens impact in the classroom and enables TAs to provide purposeful support that helps bridge the attainment gap for vulnerable learners.

This online programme of eight 40-45 minute sessions (time built in for reflection) can be accessed by individuals or as a group inset session. Each unit contains a 30 min (approx) video tutorial, resources and a quiz, supporting resources are provided to allow personal learning to turn instantly into professional practice.

Member price £350+VAT per school (non member £475+VAT)s

Pricing

We offer a three year price in order to offer best value and predictability for budgeting. The price is held for three years and billed to you annually*.

Number on Roll	26/27 Annual Price	26/27 Three Year Price**
0 - 150	£3,200+VAT	£3,100 +VAT
150 - 250	£4,700 +VAT	£4,550 +VAT
250 - 500	£5,800+VAT	£5,600+VAT
500+/Federations	£6,800+VAT	£6,600+VAT

*If you are on a three year deal from previous years the price will be held at that level.

**Billed annually

To sign up for membership please complete this short form. If you would like to discuss membership options please contact us.

Using Pupil Premium Funding

You can use your Pupil Premium Funding because VNET supports you in “Developing high-quality teaching, assessment and a broad and balanced, knowledge-based curriculum which responds to the needs of pupils” (Ref 1). We will help you build VNET into your Pupil Premium plan and provision.

"We use Pupil Premium funding to pay for VNET because it supports CPD at all levels across our school allowing all of our children to benefit from quality first teaching".

Ref 1: Department of Education, Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders, March 2025.

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