Division 01.2 · KOA STEM

We do not do
one-off assemblies.

A KOA partnership brings sustainable change to what a school can teach. Curriculum, equipment, staff capability and enrichment — designed together, then handed over so it survives without us.

Secondary school students working in a science laboratory
Partner schools
18
Trusts served
37 MATs
Typical term
Flexible
Renewal rate
94%
Multi-academy trustsState secondariesPrimary federationsIndependent schoolsSpecial schoolsSixth-form collegesUTCsMulti-academy trustsState secondariesPrimary federationsIndependent schoolsSpecial schoolsSixth-form collegesUTCs
Scope of work§ 01

Four workstreams.

Most partners take all four. A few take only curriculum design, or only the laboratory build. Nothing here is bundled to force a bigger contract.

SP/01

Curriculum design

We rewrite your scheme of work for KS2 through KS4, mapped to the national curriculum and to the practical endorsement. Delivered as editable documents you own outright.

Deliverables

  • Unit-by-unit scheme of work
  • Lesson resources and technician notes
  • Assessment bank with mark schemes
  • Progression map across key stages
SP/02

Laboratory & makerspace fit-out

Specification, procurement, installation and commissioning of electronics benches, fabrication equipment and robotics floors — including the risk assessments your trust will ask for.

Deliverables

  • Room survey and CAD layout
  • Equipment specification and tender support
  • Installation and commissioning
  • Maintenance schedule and consumables plan
SP/03

Teacher CPD

Accredited professional development for science, computing and D&T staff. Non-specialists welcome — roughly a third of the teachers we train have never soldered anything.

Deliverables

  • Six accredited CPD days per year
  • In-class co-teaching for the first term
  • Technician training strand
  • Recorded modules for new starters
SP/04

Enrichment & competition

Off-timetable engineering days, lunchtime clubs staffed by our educators, and coaching for national competitions from CREST through to robotics leagues.

Deliverables

  • Whole-year-group engineering days
  • Weekly staffed club
  • Competition entry and coaching
  • Careers sessions with practising engineers
Partnership timeline§ 02

Four phases, flexible timeline.

The co-delivery phase is the core of what we do. A scheme of work nobody has been taught to teach is just a document.

  1. 01

    Audit term

    We spend a term inside the school: lesson observation, technician interviews, equipment inventory and a student survey. You get a written baseline report whether or not you proceed.

  2. 02

    Design & build

    Scheme of work rewritten, rooms specified and fitted, first cohort of staff trained. Typically two terms, running alongside normal teaching.

  3. 03

    Co-delivery year

    Our educators teach alongside yours for a full academic year, gradually stepping back as confidence builds. This is the part cheaper providers skip.

  4. 04

    Handover & review

    The school runs it. We return each term for review, CPD top-ups and new-starter training under a light-touch retainer.

Teacher CPD session in progress
CPD Day 3 — Non-specialist electronics
Contract term
Flexible, based on partnership scope
Funding support
We help identify and write bids for grants and sponsorship
Funding routes
Pupil premium, trust capital, DfE grants, corporate sponsorship — we help write bids
Staffing
A named partnership lead plus two educators, on site weekly during co-delivery
Compliance
Enhanced checks, safeguarding policy alignment, single central record entries provided
Exit
All curriculum materials licensed perpetually to the school, editable and unbranded
Measured outcomes§ 03

Numbers we let schools audit.

Independently reviewed by the University of Salford's education faculty in 2025. The full methodology and the cases where we made no measurable difference are both in the report.

+34%
Practical uptake at GCSE
mean across 18 partners
+0.41
Progress 8 in science
measured cohort
58
Teachers trained
across our network
94%
Partnerships renewed
strong retention
They rebuilt our Key Stage 3 science scheme and trained eleven of our staff. Two years later practical uptake at GCSE is up by a third and I have a physics department that recruits. The partnership pays for itself.

Dr. Helen Marsh

Deputy Head · Ashanti Presbyterian SHS

For multi-academy trusts

One contract, every school in the trust.

Trust-wide agreements run on a hub model: one flagship school receives the full laboratory build, and the remaining schools share the facility and the CPD programme on a rota.

  • Single procurement process and one invoice for the whole trust
  • Hub-and-spoke laboratory model with a shared transport budget
  • Trust-wide CPD calendar published a full year in advance
  • Cross-school competition league, run and refereed by KOA
  • Quarterly board-level reporting pack with cohort-level data
  • Discounted home tuition rates for families across the trust