CYDWEITHIO:

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CYDWEITHIO CYFLENWI AGENDA NEWYDD AR GYFER DYSGU
COLLABORATION DELIVERING A NEW AGENDA FOR
LEARNING
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Agenda

• 10.35 Keynote Speech - Sheila Drury
• 10.55 Collaboration in Practice
• 11.45 Workshop 1
• 13.00 Lunch
• 13.45 Workshop 2
• 15.15 Closing remarks Elizabeth Raikes
• 15.30 Informal discussion over coffee

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CROESO A DIBEN Y DIWRNOD
WELCOME AND AIMS FOR THE DAY ELIZABETH
RAIKES Prif Weithredwr / Chief Executive, ELWa
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Main Aims

• To highlight good practice in order to stimulate
  the debate
• To listen to views on barriers to collaboration
  and what ELWa can do to help break down these
  barriers
• To inform policy development
• To share good practice and help avoid potential
  pitfalls
• To listen to your views on what needs to happen
  in order to help facilitate collaboration

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Main Aims Continued

• To update providers on ELWas latest policy
  developments and the linkages between them
• To identify and discuss the types of
  collaboration that we might want to consider, for
  example
• Shared administrative facilities
• Common timetabling
• Collaboration on specific themes e.g Welsh
  Language
• Utilisation of specific tolls to assist
  collaboration e.g Video Conferencing
• Shared transport provision

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PRIF ARAITH
KEYNOTE SPEECH SHEILA DRURY Cadeirydd /
Chairman, ELWa
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CAERPHILLY BASIN SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP
cymraeg
Caerphilly Basin Schools Partnership DAVID
EYNON Ysgol St Cenydd / St Cenydd School
Extending and enriching educational provision
post 16 DAVID EYNON St Cenydd Comprehensive
School
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Background

• The old problems surplus places small sixth
  forms insularity survival of the fittest
• Another problem ELWa v LEA funding
  implications
• 5th June 2003 a pledge
• 16th June 2003 a starting point

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First Steps

• Acknowledgement of Stakeholders (formerly
  competitors)
• Four schools Bedwas St Cenydd St Ilans St
  Martins
• The LEA
• Commitment to partnership
• Agreed principles

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Principles

• Collaboration not competition
• Openness, honesty and trust
• The imperative to synchronise
• 14-19 dimension also crucial
• Development of a shared identity

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Barriers to Collaboration

• 4 schools 4 different school days
• 2 different timetable cycles (3 vs 1)
• Logistics
• Different school cultures
• Money
• Lack of will to change

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Joint Problems or Solutions?

• Timetables
• Assessment, Reporting and Exam practices
• Closure days
• Registration of pupils EMA
• Uniform (or not!)
• Paying for books, photocopying
• Staff Expectations about work and behaviour
• Responsibility for pupil progress - Inspections

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However

• All 4 schools agreed a common school day (and did
  the necessary statutory consultation)
• All 4 schools now have a common timetable cycle
  (so much suddenly becomes possible)
• All 4 schools now meet regularly to plan and
  monitor joint provision
• Staff support and goodwill
• Some collaborative work is already in place

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Benefits

• Shared staff resources
• Less duplication
• Specialist sites one cost for resourcing
• Wider range of subjects on offer
• Less empty chairs in classes

• Shared recruitment costs and processes
• Development of communication between schools
• Development of new teaching and learning methods

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The Mighty Shift

• Student attitude change
• Student working patterns
• Student learning styles and practices

• Staff attitudes changes
• Flexibility of teaching style and practices
• Transparency of schemes of work
• Organisation of learning materials

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Challenges

• There is a need for staff awareness training and
  attitude change management
• Logistical issues are often not within our
  control
• The timescale for implementation is never long
  enough
• Technology NEVER works when you need it!

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The Biggest Challenges

• Some staff dont like to share!
• Or give anything up!
• Or change anything they are doing
• They find it hard to accept that, even though
  its broken, it needs fixing!

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The Future

• An increasingly federal approach for 14-19
  education in the Caerphilly basin? (shared
  issues shared objectives)
• Delivering the Learning Country Agenda
• Greater community use of community resources
• More links with business
• The School(s) of the Future

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CAERPHILLY BASIN SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP
cymraeg
Caerphilly Basin Schools Partnership DAVID
EYNON Ysgol St Cenydd / St Cenydd School
Extending and enriching educational provision
post 16 DAVID EYNON St Cenydd Comprehensive
School
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CYFLWYNIAD IR GWEITHDAI
INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOPS ELIZABETH RAIKES Prif
Weithredwr / Chief Executive, ELWa
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SYLWADAU CLOI
CLOSING REMARKS ELIZABETH RAIKES Prif Weithredwr
/ Chief Executive, ELWa
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DIOLCH AM FYNYCHU
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING