Community Matters

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• Community Matters

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Difference between hard and soft

• In a hard federation there is one super
  Headteacher and one governing body in charge of
  the schools within the federation.
• In a soft federation each school within the
  federation retains their own Headteacher and
  governing body.

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Why the federation was formed?

• Worked well as cluster
• Moving for secondary led to a collegiate model
  (were working together on this and we can get
  better together)
• To sustain services and staffing
• To expand provision
• Branding

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How the federation works

• Governance
• Headteacher group
• Operational group
• School partnerships(MFL, EAL,ETC)
• Parent groups
• Partnership working

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• What you understand as community may depend
  on where you sit and how you
  define community.

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Task 1

• Why do you want to work with your community?

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Task 2

• Who is your community?

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• What we have learnt from our experience.

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• Partnership programmes or activities require a
  focus if they are to sustain interest and
  conserve time, energy and resources

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• Collaboration has to have a human face.

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• Parameters have to be clear .
• There are limitations and restrictions within
  which partners must operate.

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• Adequate resources have to be provided-
• time
• space
• and money.

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• Nurture and walk with those parents and
  members of your community who want to work with
  you. Never race ahead of them.

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• In your own context

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• Learners construct knowledge for themselves.
• The same applies to organisations.

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• Learners and learning organisations construct
  learning in their own context and by dealing with
  the contingencies which they face in their daily
  work.
• MacBeath 1999 p9

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• The further we venture into this complex
  territory, the more we discover about community,
  family and neighbourhood effects. The more we
  discover, the more we know about what pupils
  bring with them into the classroom and take away
  with them to their homes. What they bring with
  them is a groundbed of attitudes, beliefs and
  convictions on which the seeds of knowledge sit,
  take root or are quickly washed away.
• MacBeath 1999 p13

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• The truth is that what happens outside schools
  matters more.
• MacBeath 1999 p13

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• What is effective may depend on where you
  sit and how you define effective.

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Key benefits

• Raising attainment
• Community cohesion
• ECM agenda
• Well-being
• Improved attendance
• Economies of scale

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Contact Details

• Claire
• cwilliams_at_lister.newham.sch.uk
• Shaon
• shaon_at_plaistow.newham.sch.uk
• Ray
• community.manager_at_portway.newham.sch.uk