Challenge Partners are a charity, owned and led by schools who work together to lead school improvement. They believe that, when schools are working in partnership to continually improve their practice, an excellent education for pupils will be achieved.

Challenge Partners are made up of over 300 schools, from all different backgrounds across the country, who recognise that they are stronger together and that collaboration is the key to continued success. They exist to support schools in that role by facilitating constructive collaboration and challenge between them and providing a platform for activities which would not be possible for a school to undertake on its own.

Together they aspire to become a world-class, knowledge-sharing community, which leads the way in school improvement and raises the standards of education for all.

Netherhall Mead Academy is a member of Challenge Partners, and as such we have an annual review to evaluate our performance and areas of excellence.

Challenge Partners Review Report

Please click the link below to read our latest report from Challenge Partners.

Challenge Partner Review Report 2026

Challenge Partner Review Report 2025

Challenge Partner Review Report 2024

Netherhall Mead Academy Challenge Partners Area of Excellence

Unlock a tailored approach to pupil success – we invite all schools to experience firsthand the transformative impact of our bespoke assessment system, designed to cater specifically to the unique needs of every learner with SEND.

Netherhall Mead Academy has adapted an online platform called Evidence for Learning to suit the individual needs of our learners, showcase progress and support our personalised curriculum.

Pupil progress is live and accessible to all stakeholders. Netherhall Mead has a robust and responsive pupil progress cycle which enables accelerated progress and is responsive to emerging needs. Our own 5-point scale breaks progress in independence, engagement and generalisation into small steps which can be analysed at all levels using Insights for Learning. Staff are confident with the use of Evidence for Learning. Teachers set bespoke learning priorities for pupils, based on their individual learning needs and record annotations using the online platform.

Evidence for Learning has a Family App and a Learner App where families can see and exchange real time information about their child’s learning.

Evidence for Learning is used by teachers, teaching assistants, wellbeing and therapy teams, and by our families.  This online platform has improved teacher workload and enabled a community-driven approach to improve pupil outcomes.

For more information please visit the Challenge Partners Website on this link https://www.challengepartners.org/