Canopy Lead

Supporting Schools

• Work with schools to design environments and ways of working that foster belonging, flexibility and engagement.

• Facilitate collaborative groups where staff, students and families explore challenges and co-create approaches that work for everyone.

• Design and deliver professional learning that builds confidence in creating spaces where all children and staff feel they belong and can succeed.

• Offer practical classroom-based support modelling, co-teaching and helping staff reflect on what’s working.

• Build a connected network of schools that share ideas, experiment together and learn from one another.

Supporting Children

• Lead and support the Canopy team to design and deliver a curriculum that helps children rediscover belonging, confidence and agency.

• Ensure the environment and routines promote safety, curiosity and joy in learning.

• Support staff to weave academic, emotional, social and creative learning throughout the day.

• Strengthen connections between Canopy and home schools, ensuring learning and belonging flow both ways.

Shaping the Future

• Contribute to the ongoing development of Canopy’s model: testing ideas, reflecting and learning from practice.

• Build partnerships with schools and local authority teams.

• Represent the Canopy’s approach to belonging-by-design in professional and community spaces.

• Help the model grow sustainably, so more children and schools benefit over time.