A Partnership, Not a Product
The CUSP partnership serves pupils across over 700 schools in the UK, as well as a growing number of international schools too. The aim of this partnership model is collaboration. In joining the CUSP community, you will be surrounded by passionate educators who are equally as committed as you are to providing exceptional outcomes for pupils. All our evidence is showcased from the classroom and excellent practice – it’s where we make the genuine gains.
“Our curriculum has changed massively since taking on the CUSP curriculum and it has had a huge impact on our children and overall curriculum approach. Our subject leaders can easily explain the approach and the science/theory behind the curriculum, and this is down to the training videos/sessions.”
Rob Dickinson, Assistant Head Teacher, Saint Augustine Webster CVA, Scunthorpe
Why Choose CUSP?
CUSP is guided by evidence-led curriculum structures, such as retrieval, spaced retrieval practice and interleaving. It is underpinned by explicit vocabulary instruction and research-focused pedagogy. Combining these has led to exceptional outcomes for pupils, as a result of coherent curriculum design and instructional teaching. It also gives you, as school leaders, consistency and expectations.
Research and evidence-led practice guides our principles. We support all CUSP partner schools and we have an experienced CUSP implementation team who are able to offer live support around specific CPD on request. We are always happy to put you in contact with other school leaders who have very successfully embedded the full CUSP curriculum.
As every school is different, all planning templates are editable so that they can be tailored to your individual school context and class needs.
“We really do believe that this transformation has only been possible due to the high-quality and ambitious nature of the CUSP curriculum we have implemented. We are so thankful that our research paid off and that we took the very wise step of joining the CUSP Unity school partnership family a few years ago. We know that with CUSP we will continue to go from strength to strength. This is just the beginning…”
Jessica Merritt, Deputy Head Teacher, Lozells Primary School, Birmingham
Why Schools Love CUSP
Become a Partner School
CUSP is unapologetically ambitious – it will not only improve outcomes for pupils, but also teacher subject knowledge.
Becoming a CUSP partner gives you access to our myriad of CPD online resources and training, Ofsted support and guidance, EYFS, SEND and so much more. We are continuously working with our partner schools to provide new and updated resources that help you work smarter and more effectively.
Integral to CUSP is the evidence-led pedagogy that sits behind the architecture of the curriculum design. If you join our partnership, we urge you strongly to spend time with staff going through the essential CPD we have provided online and with handbooks. Each one is designed to support a staff meeting.
CUSP partners also benefit from discounts from our trusted partners, such as Peters and Showbie.
Partnership Benefits
Incredible benefits are included in your partnership fees! Here are some highlights:
- Detailed CPD pathway – packed with impactful online resources to support successful school implementation through evidence-led practice
- New content as it is released throughout the year, for example, the KS1 History Y2 study of flight or new texts that respond to local, national and international themes, like conflict, through the Schools’ Choice Modules
- Regular updates to existing content for all subjects that your school subscribes to
- CUSP Long-Term Sequence Planning – we do the legwork and provide you with an editable document to help reduce the workload and forward planning
- Mixed Age Guidance planning documents – suitable for single and mixed age adaptive practice
- Access to Subject Leader resources, such as handbooks, matrices, spider charts and responses to potential changes to the National Curriculum
- Registration and access to live Subject Leader Meetings twice a year (recorded and shared in case staff are unable to attend). Within this offering, we welcome any subject leader or leaders to attend, even if the school does not subscribe to the subject
- Access to our phenomenal festivals that are fully resourced, including Spoken Word, Food, and Art festivals, that culturally enrich, inspire and connect our schools nationally and internationally
- Access and updates to our high-impact Scaffolding Toolkits
- Access for reasonable adaptions to the content through editable Securing and Advancing Knowledge Notes
- Access and use of our ground-breaking Digital Thinking Hard Platform with updates and new tasks being added to support you in the classroom. Access to Unity iPad Computing Curriculum – an integrated and bespoke computing curriculum that is fully resourced, spanning example modules for EYFS and full modules for Years 1 – 6
- Explainer clips and supporting documents to secure strategic leadership with governors
- Access to CUSP thinking hard resources and templates
- Learning through a Lens resources – new for the 2024/25 academic year, we will be recording and capturing examples of excellent practice in a CUSP classroom through the 6 phases of a lesson. Our expert teachers will have specific phases of lessons and outcomes recorded, narrated and published for you to reference and use as PD in your schools
- Updates, adaptions and responses to national policy and the landscape of the curriculum under a Labour government
- A direct line to our trusted providers who offer exclusive discounts to CUSP Schools, for example, Sync – provider of iPad infrastructure and training
- Being part of a community of educators who are equally as committed as you are to providing exceptional outcomes for pupils
Partnership Cost
The cost of CUSP curriculum is banded depending on the number of pupils on roll in your school. Following the initial curriculum costs, there is an annual partnership fee that ensures all schools receive the very latest information, innovations and new learning modules that are released throughout the year.
We have worked hard to ensure that the cost of CUSP partnership is realistic and accessible for schools. Repeated evidence shows that CUSP delivers real value for schools, driving improved outcomes for students, and enabling teachers to balance their workloads and elevate their teaching.
“I wanted to say how we are really, really loving the CUSP CPD videos and are gradually implementing CUSP subjects one at a time into our school. In 20 years of teaching, this is the best T&L approach I have ever implemented and cannot stop raving about you to other schools locally!”
Deputy Head, Greatfield Park Primary School, Cheltenham
Interested in Joining CUSP?
For an informal discussion about joining our partnership or to request a quote for your school or trust, with no obligation, please contact the wonderful CUSP operations team at cusp@unitysp.co.uk and we will be very happy to help.
About Unity Schools Partnership Education Limited
Unity Schools Partnership Education Limited (USPE) is a wholly-owned subsidiary trading company of Unity Schools Partnership (USP) and USP has licensed USPE to re-sell the curriculum materials.
Registered Office: Unity Schools Partnership Offices, Homefield Road, Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8QP, United Kingdom. Company Registration No: 12709238.