Welcome to the Illumine website

Illumine is committed to working with schools in a spirit of co-operation, holding a vision of each school’s true potential, and increasing the self-belief and effectiveness of everyone involved in the life of the school.

Illumine offers a unique package of exciting products and practical services to support schools in raising achievement and promoting pupils’ personal development. Our products and services support schools in preparing for their OFSTED inspection under the new system by strengthening their existing self-evaluation and contributing significantly to the evidence base at their disposal. They empower staff by providing them with new resources and additional expertise to tackle the challenges that they face. Our services and products are carefully designed by experts to reflect best practice and current priorities in schools as well being precisely tailored to the new inspection Framework. As such, they provide a potentially powerful tool for transformation, regardless of a school’s context or stage of development.

Why choose Illumine? Our self-evaluation services provide you with a number of benefits:

• the products we offer have been designed to meet definite needs and to make life easier for senior managers, teachers and support staff;
• our products really empower schools in raising pupils’ achievement and they address the Every Child Matters agenda very directly;
• our services focus specifically on your school and its circumstances;
• the self-evaluation services reduce anxiety about being inspected at very short notice by helping you to feel properly prepared;
• they support schools in developing accurate, rigorous and comprehensive self-evaluation that stands up to external scrutiny and cuts to the quick;
• they strengthen school improvement by highlighting key areas that need closer attention and identifying aspects that are already strong;
• they support senior managers in raising expectations and transforming their schools from within;
• they complement advice from LEAs and consultants not directly involved in the new inspection system;
• our consultancy uses only highly experienced inspectors, informed by the latest inspection practice, who are committed to working constructively with school staff.