To achieve Victoria Academies Trust’s mission: ‘To make our people they can be’, we are committed to providing high quality professional development opportunities for colleagues, in all roles, across all schools at Victoria Academies Trust. One of our key strategic goals is ‘To grow and value our colleagues’. Over the last few years, we have developed and invested in our central Professional Learning and Development (PLD) model through our aim to provide a bespoke and varied offer and we plan to continually to develop this year on year.
Our PLD model for all colleagues is comprised of:
- School-level, universal entitlement, including statutory training, Professional Development Meetings (PDMs) and Appraisal Meetings
- Central training events determined by role, which are delivered via our partnerships with Gateway Alliance and Ambition Institute for ECTs as well as training from SWALLS for our special school colleagues
- Accredited training opportunities including NPQs and Apprenticeships within our Apprenticeship Pathways offer.
- Our central offer which includes a range of courses facilitated by Leaders from across the Trust for VAT colleagues.
- Networking and collaboration opportunities, by linking with organisations such as Whole education, Education Exchange, Confederation of school trusts, SWALLS and Gateway alliance.
Our Continuous Professional Development Offer for 2025-2026 for all colleagues can be viewed in full here:
All colleagues have access to VAT’s PLD offer within our internal CPD platform – Pathways and with the support of their line managers, either as part of their appraisal or as a self-directed request can access the range of training events and programmes on offer within our PLD offer for 2025/26.
If you have any questions or feedback about PLD at Victoria Academies Trust please get in touch with our PLD team at: pathways@victrust.org