Learning is for life: Teaching Leaders Delegates visit Sweden‘Learning is for life´ is a core value of Hampton Academy and our partner schools within the Learning Schools Trust. This is a conviction embraced by staff as well as students and was put into practice as four members of staff, along with seven from our partners in Twickenham and Ipswich, applied to participate in the Teaching Leaders programme. Teaching Leaders and LST Training ProgrammeTeaching Leaders is a charity organisation that offers its members an in-depth training programme to help outstanding teachers become effective leaders of change within their school. The Learning Schools Trust are working with Teaching Leaders to develop a bespoke training programme that will help our staff help students become effective, independent learners and accomplish one of our other core values: to learn more than they thought possible. Having already given up a week of their summer holiday to participate in a residential training week at the National Teachers Training College in Nottingham, the Teaching Leaders team were looking for further opportunities to develop themselves as teachers. 
Mrs. O'Brien, Mr. Scruby and Ms. Wasley visit Kunskapsskolan Västerås.
Students at Västerås helped us compare the English and Swedish Learning Portals.
Over the half-term break four teachers, Mr. Haigh, Mr. Molin, Mr. Scruby and Ms. Wasley accompanied by Mrs. O´Brien, visited several of our partner schools in Sweden in the towns of Örebro, Enköping and Västerås. It was a great opportunity for these colleagues to meet subject, team and college leaders in these schools and discover how they implemented the model of using the weekly one-to-one with clear goals and requirements to help each student succeed. It was also an opportunity to see how the uniquely designed buildings contribute to students´ progress and had all of the teachers on the tour looking forward to next year when we get to teach in our new school building. The cohort were also able to compare how communication sessions, workshops, lectures, seminars and lab sessions at our school compare with our counterparts in other schools. 
Mr. Scruby and Mr. Molin try out a One to One tutorial in one of the purpose-built seminar rooms.
Mr. Molin compares the Wordsworth Hub with the one in Västerås... he said he needed Mrs. Aston there!
Explore ideas with colleagues and students in SwedenHampton Academy teachers took the opportunity to explore ideas with Swedish colleagues and students and enjoyed the chance to take workshops and one to one tutorials themselves with students at the schools. Staff who visited the schools will be feeding back to colleagues and students at Hampton Academy in the coming weeks. 
The dining hall at the Gymnasiet (Upper School) in Västerås impressed us!
Mr. Haigh and Mr. Scruby explore Stockholm.
The recovered C17th War Ship, the Vasa, was another highlight. Mr Scruby and Mr. Haigh spent 6 hours in the museum...learning is for life!
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