Apprenticeships designed for education

Primary Goal’s apprenticeship training is excellent. Our apprentices are developing into digital champions who actively support colleagues, model effective use of technology, and provide solutions that improve efficiency across the school. This has directly enhanced staff confidence in using digital platforms and improved the digital learning experience for pupils. Liz’s confidence and expertise have grown significantly, and she now plays a central role in shaping our digital learning strategy, directly impacting teaching quality and pupil outcomes.

The support we have received from Primary Goal has been exceptional. From the very beginning, they have taken the time to understand our Trust, our values, and the ambitions behind our wider workforce pledge. That deep understanding has shaped the way they have guided us, ensuring that the apprenticeships offered are not just generic programmes but are genuinely tailored to the needs of our staff and the realities of school life.

For us, this represents of everything that we’ve done in apprenticeship levy transfer, the biggest single transfer that we’ve done to date, £580,000 on one cohort of apprentices who are teachers who are then learning critical digital skills that they can use to instill that culture within the generation that will come into the workforce in the 2030s for our country.

We’re using the digital champions to develop each individual school’s digital strategy, share best practice across the trust, learn from each other so that we can really build and affect our digital strategy through our greatest assets which are our people.

We’re really fortunate to have a city that is embracing digital learning and technology in its multifarious ways. There is a really far-reaching impact here of what we are doing.

As a school, we found managing the programme with Amy quite easy to move through. It was really clear what was expected. We were able to be flexible in terms of the time that Amy needed to spend out so that we could maximise our engagement with the programme. With Primary Goal, they were really supportive in a variety of ways.

The impact of our staff carrying out an apprenticeship has been huge. It’s been a really positive experience. The knowledge and the experiences that staff have had have been cascaded and shared with other staff and has improved their professional development. It’s also been really useful for other leaders in the school who have had the opportunity to develop and implement other software and technologies to enable them to work in more effective ways.

Sessions with Sophie’s Primary Goal coach have been beyond helpful at understanding what she needs out of the course. Sophie is very happy in her sessions and values her time with her coach. Since beginning the programme she is much more confident, much more aware of different programmes and how these can be used to reduce workload. She always mentions different programmes during staff briefings and presented a workshop on AI to all schools in our Trust. She is also part of the Trust Digital Transformation team.

The support from Primary Goal has been amazing. I have a brilliant tutor who is there at any point I need them. They’re great with advice, when you hand in an assignment they give you feedback on it. It has been a really pleasurable experience to be part of the Digital Champion Apprenticeship Programme.

What Primary Goal do that is great for us is they teach us also how to be project minded. It’s understanding that improving technology in schools is a people thing.

It’s been really useful having the dedicated coach assigned to yourself. They’re always there anytime you need them. It’s been really appreciated.