The Central Team work across all our schools, providing support and challenge to ensure that each of our schools performs to the highest standards possible, thereby delivering educational excellence for every one of our children.

The Compass central team is a highly effective team supporting our schools in a range of key areas:

1. Education - our highly capable education team comprises mainly current teaching practitioners from within our schools who work part-time in the central team and part-time in their schools, ensuring the team is fully grounded in the reality of teaching and its challenges too! The team supports each school through regular independent reviews of the quality of teaching and learning in each school, facilitating support in response, and running teacher-focused CPD to ensure our staff are always progressing. 
    
2. Finance - we have an excellent finance team who support our schools in budget setting, in budget monitoring, in running the centralised online ordering and payment system, as well as supporting our senior leaders with tricky decisions that benefit from a finance perspective.
    
3. Business Management - our Business Management team provides high-quality support to our schools, from leading on large capital projects and oversight, to support with day to day estates issues, to ensuring that our schools are all H&S compliant. In addition to this, they support our schools with all HR matters from recruitment, to training and development, to dealing with complex HR cases.