BUILDING SCHOOLS FOR THE FUTURE, BRIDGWATER

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BUILDING SCHOOLSFOR THE FUTURE, BRIDGWATER
School Organisation Conference 2008 29 February
2008
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JULIA RIDGE Programme Director Building Schools
for the Future
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Somerset
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Future BSF Waves
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The Journey

• Federations
• Education Action Zone
• Community Learning Partnership
• BIP Cluster
• Trust

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Principles of the Trust

• The Moral purpose of the trust is to promote
  learning and meet the needs of all young people
  in the town of Bridgwater
• Trust schools will be foundation schools
• Trust facilitates schools in Bridgwater
• Schools collectively will determine the role of
  the Trust
• Schools will identify its partners who would
  facilitate the functions of the Trust
• The Trust would be an enabling organisation

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Principles of the Trust

• The Trust would add value beyond that of the
  individual Governing Bodies
• The functions of the Trust would be as outlined
  in SfC Part 1
• Time frame for the establishment of the Trust to
  be negotiated
• The Schools will agree the size of the Trust and
  the method of consultation
• A collective consultation document will be
  produced

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How is the Trust made up?
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What will the Trust do?

• Sharing of Good Practice
• 14-19 Curriculum
• Higher Education
• Employer engagement
• Every Child Matters agenda
• Behaviour and attendance
• Inclusion
• Initial teacher training
• Training and development of staff
• Arts and sports provision
• ICT

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Key Curriculum Principles

• By 2013 all young people aged 14 to 19 in
  Bridgwater will be able to access a comprehensive
  curriculum spanning both academic and vocational
  pathways
• Learning opportunities will be exciting and of
  the highest standard
• Improved access will ensure that learning
  opportunities are accessible to all
• Appropriate impartial advice and guidance will be
  available to all young people across the age
  range

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Key Curriculum Principles

• All young people will graduate from full-time
  education or training with the appropriate
  technical and functional skills to progress
  successfully into employment or higher education.
• All young people for whom higher education is
  appropriate will have the confidence and levels
  of skill to progress to courses of higher
  education including a wide range of locally
  delivered flexible provision
• Young people will leave full-time education and
  training with the necessary technological skills
  to function successfully in the 21st century.
• All young people will be equipped to play an
  active role as responsible citizens in the wider
  global community

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Good Practice

• 677 14-16 young people access personalised
  learning programmes
• Young people from the four Bridgwater schools
  work harmoniously and effectively together on IFP
  programmes
• The IFP programmes involve 623 young people
• Achievement rates on IFP are good at 96.5
• Gifted and Talented are supported through the AS
  Critical Thinking programme. Success rates on
  this programme are high at 90
• Transition arrangements from schools to college
  are very effective

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Good Practice

• All young people in Bridgwater have access to
  very effective Impartial Advice and Guidance,
  with Matrix qualified staff
• Progression at 16 into College or Apprenticeships
  is high at 82
• Through the Tertiary structure young people have
  access to a comprehensive range of post 16
  curriculum delivered in industry standard
  facilities Achievement post 16 is high at 91
• Progression into Higher Education for Level 3
  students is high with 78 progressing to HE from
  A Levels and 42 from Level 3 vocational
  provision

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Areas for Development

• Not all lines of learning have yet been made
  available and will need to be introduced by 2013
• Not all young people are actively engaged with
  their learning
• Confidence and competence in the delivery of
  vocational training at 14 is still limited to a
  small number of staff in the schools

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Areas for Development

• Further collaborative timetabling to facilitate
  the extension of vocational education and
  training is required
• The transport infrastructure required to support
  the 14-16 expansion of vocational education in
  schools is not in yet place
• The technological information, particularly VLE
  is not yet in place

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Plan Contents

• An agreed set of models of 14-19 progression
• An agreed timescale for the introduction across
  the town of all 16 lines of learning and the
  identification of Expert Delivery Groups
• The agreed timescale will also include other
  curriculum developments which provide appropriate
  alternatives to the Diploma programme
• An agreed strategy, as part of BSF, to ensure
  that adequate vocational facilities are available
  across the town to meet the specialist needs of
  the curriculum
• An agreed strategy for the engagement of key
  employers

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Plan Contents

• An agreed strategy for the expansion of
  information, advice and guidance including the
  drawing up of a 14-19 joint prospectus for
  Bridgwater
• An ILT strategy for Schools and College to
  support an expansion of personalised learning and
  common strategies for the use of VLE
• An agreed strategy on transport across the town
• A common timetabling policy
• A common staff development programme

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BSF vision
schools vision
Outline specification
East Bridgwater
Chilton Trinity
build requirement
Robert Blake/ Elmwood
Bridgwater College
Haygrove/ Penrose
Brymore