Following our recent Annual General Meeting (AGM), where our Camden Learning school community reflected on the year’s progress, we have now published our Annual Review for 2024-25.
The review highlights our achievements and impact for last year, against our four shared ambitions: A Fair Start, An Excellent School Experience, Flourishing Lives and A Thriving Organisation. Framed by Camden’s Education Strategy to 2030, Building Back Stronger, and its twin pillars of equity and excellence, it captures both the progress made and the priorities we will continue to address together.
A Fair Start
In the last year we have placed a continued focus on enabling the best possible start for Camden’s children and 70% of Early Years pupils in Camden’s maintained schools achieved a good level of development, up from 65% in 2022 and above the national average.
Schools have also worked together to strengthen practice in oracy, early reading and early maths. The launch of our Early Years Oracy Hub marks an important step in addressing language and communication gaps, while closer partnering with specialist services and Family Hubs has helped to tackle barriers to attendance and learning at an early stage.
An Excellent School Experience
The review sets out how our schools are sustaining high standards while deepening collaboration including in early reading, with Camden Year 1 phonics check outcomes now ranked 6th in England, and 2nd out of 153 local authorities for disadvantaged pupils.
At Key Stage 2, 73% of pupils achieved the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Mathematics, placing Camden 8th nationally. Camden’s Key Stage 4 results were slightly above the national average, with an ongoing focus on strengthening these.
School partnerships and federations have continued to grow, and our borough-wide networks and professional development offers are supporting leaders and teachers to learn from one another. This includes partnership programmes such as Every Child Reading by 7 and our support initiatives for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Flourishing Lives
Beyond headline attainment measures, the review highlights the breadth of opportunity available to children and young people in Camden.
This includes our post-16 provision where A level and vocational results have risen for three consecutive years and five T Level courses are now offered across Camden schools, with a first cohort of T Level students completing their industry placements in 2024-25.
Camden STEAM programme continued to expand opportunities for young people in the digital, scientific and creative industries, reaching 51 schools and nearly 14,000 student interactions in the last year. And as we develop our renewed borough-wide Post-16 strategy, launch our Camden Next Steps website and embed the use of a shared Key Stage 5 data platform, we are improving access to information and strengthening collaboration across the system.
A Thriving Organisation
Looking ahead, we will continue to use our collective strength as a place-based family of schools to respond to local contexts and changing national climate, from the revised Ofsted framework and Curriculum & Assessment Review, to the upcoming Schools White Paper.
In the report, Chief Executive Stephen Hall and our former Independent Chair, Dame Christine Gilbert, reaffirm the shared moral purpose that will continue to unite the Camden Learning partnership: a belief in the power of education to transform lives.
You can read the full Annual Review here: https://camdenlearning.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Camden-Learning-Annual-Review-2024-25.pdf
