Working together for all learners in Milton Keynes
The Milton Keynes Education Partnership (MKEP) is working to support collaboration across the education system in the city to improve opportunities and outcomes for all learners…
Transforming opportunities and outcomes for learners
The Milton Keynes Education Partnership is working to provide a strong platform for collaboration across the education system in the city to transform educational opportunities and outcomes for all learners.
We are responding to a changing and complex educational landscape which has resulted in an increased risk of fragmentation and an increasingly limited capacity for working together to improve educational opportunities and outcomes for local communities across the city. Our aim is to take collective responsibility for improving educational outcomes by making best use of the knowledge, expertise and resources that are available both within and outside Milton Keynes.
Our vision is to ensure that:
- All children and young people, whatever their background and circumstances, are happy, healthy, enthusiastic, confident and resilient learners who are well-prepared for their adult lives and active involvement in their communities.
- Milton Keynes attracts the very best teachers, leaders and other education professionals, providing high quality professional development to help them to achieve their career ambitions while maintaining their health and well-being.
- Educational achievement improves significantly across the city so that children and young people are prepared for the widest possible career opportunities.
Partners across the community
We are supported by a wide range of partners from across education, business and the community both within and from outside Milton Keynes. They share our desire to develop a self-improving, schools-led system based on strong partnerships working together to create local solutions to the challenges we face and opportunities we have.
The Milton Keynes Reading for Life Project
The ability to read is a fundamental life skill which enables us to participate fully in society and the workplace.
Skilled reading is crucial for our students to succeed in school with research showing a strong correlation between students’ reading ability and their performance across all GCSE subjects.
As part of the Milton Keynes Reading for Life Project, secondary schools across Milton Keynes are working together to support staff (teachers, teaching assistants and school leaders) to develop their knowledge and confidence in teaching reading to enable everyone to support the students they work with to become proficient readers who can access the secondary curriculum.
Work developing the project began in July 2022 with a group of leaders (headteachers, English and whole school literacy leaders) meeting together and then working with Alex Quigley, author of the ‘Closing the Gap’ series, to identify priorities for the project’s action plans. Although evidence shows the importance of continuing to support reading through the whole secondary phase of education, it was decided to focus initially on Key Stage 3.
