Selly Oak Trust School

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Selly Oak Trust School
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Selly Oak background

• 100 in 16-19 education in2008-2009 academic year
• Caters for MLD, Autistic spectrum, Downs, ADHD,
  EBD
• Specialist Science College since September 2006
• 400 pupils largest single special school in
  country.

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• So why go Trust?
• History of school innovation and success
• Closure and relocation agenda
• Government/shadow govt policy
• Provision for our 19 clientele
• Working positively with the LA
• Overwhelming support to do so
• Ofsted thought Trust was great!!

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Selly Oak Trust Vision
An overarching trust to value, develop and extend
the schools proud tradition, ensuring that its
direction and development carry forward in
partnership with and focussed on the needs of
its community.
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The Selly Oak vision would

• Advance the education of the pupils at Selly Oak
  School.
• Extend its range of operations to support more
  fully our community of former students and
  parents of its students.
• Advocate for students with SEN and for excellent
  SEN provision particularly Special Schools.
• Have Incorporated Charitable status enabling
  increased fund raising
• Offer even greater support to its many
  communities of schools

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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?

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• Empowerment of the community of
• parents of children with SEN

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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?

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• Organise and extend into a wrap around
• service the support available to a largely
• disenfranchised group of adults with
• SEN

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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?

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• Expand work related learning
• opportunities and enrich our curriculum

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Selly Oak Trust School

• Working with our Trust partner
• How could the Co-op help the school?
• Staff access to our training courses
• Input to curriculum (eg ethical trading)
• Work placements
• Commercial awareness
• PR advice
• Careers advice
• Help influence the influencers

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• Working with our Trust partner
• How could the school help the Co-op?
• profile-raising
• Volunteering opportunities for staff
• Joint PR opportunities
• Possible supply of materials and goods
• Training/development opportunities for our staff
• Opportunity to influence curriculum to prepare
  youngsters for the world of work
• Help with employee engagement

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Selly Oak Trust School
The Selly Oak Charitable Trust was formed in
September 2007 The Midlands Co-op was invited to
join the governing body of the school and the
Trust Board
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Selly Oak Trust School
The charitable aims were To relieve the needs
of and advance the education of persons with SEN
in particular but not exclusively by The
provision of advice counselling or
support Assisting in the provision of
facilities Educating the public about the needs
of persons with special educational needs To
provide or assist in the provision of facilities
in the interest of social welfare for recreation
or other leisure time occupation of individuals
who have need of such facilities by reason of
their youth, age, infirmity or disability,
financial hardship or social circumstances with
the object of improving their condition of life
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Selly Oak Trust School

• PARENTS INFLUENCE PRACTICE
• Run by parents for parents
• drop in centre for distressed parents
• Could not do this as a school but we could as a
  Trust - and now we do!
• Runs autonomously from the school and the LA

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Selly Oak Trust School

• PARENTS ADVISORY SERVICE
• Makes sure clean advice is available
• eg What do I do if the LA wants to take my
  childs statement away?
• Get information and pass it on

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• ACCOMODATION
• Ideal of a sheltered SEN community that is
• Respectful, independent and has good neighbours
• Students can live alone but not in a feral world
• Selly Oak Hospital closure opportunity for
  purchasing accomodation blocks adjacent to school

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Selly Oak Trust School

• PUBLISHING
• B and Q provide brochures for tiling your
  bathroom
• We provide brochures telling you how to get a
  statement

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• CURRICULUM
• Focussed Learning System ready to be launched
  nationally
• Meaningful Business enterprise activities with
  our partner
• Press coverage

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• FORMER STUDENTS CLUB
• Allows us to fund, through the charitable trust,
  holidays for our ex- students and often their
  parents, for whom this type of holiday would not
  normally be possible

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Selly Oak Trust School
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Developing the
understanding of the community about SEN Working
with extended schools clusters to provide
continuing education and qualifications gained in
a caring establishment
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Selly Oak Trust School
Where are we now? Part of rapidly growing number
of Trust schools Extended curricular development
with the Co-op Raising of profile of school and
Trust partner nationally Raising of awareness of
SEN education nationally by participation in
conferences etc Trust and FASNA Consultancy to
other schools