Chatham Grammar School For Boys and the Shishu Kishor Club

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Chatham Grammar School For Boys and the Shishu
Kishor Club
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Forming Partnerships between Maintained Schools
and Community Schools
Wednesday 18th November 2009 Overview of the
partnership between Chatham Grammar School For
Boys and the Shishu Kishor Club Craig Brown,
Assistant Headteacher at Chatham Grammar
School For Boys Nilufar Chowdhury,
Headteacher, Shishu Kishor Club
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• We started from very different places, but our
  paths were destined to cross

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Trying to understand where each other was coming
from
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Objectives 1 Foster collaboration between the
supplementary and maintained sector

• 1.1 Decision to relocate the Shishu Kishor Club
  at Chatham Grammar School For Boys
• 1.2 Jointly sign up to the aims of the project

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Objectives 2 Model good practice in teaching
learning

• 1.1 Lesson planning
• 1.2 Schemes of work
• 1.3 Resource development
• 1.4 Use of technology

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Objectives 3 Provide support for community
languages teaching

• 1.1 Rooming
• 1.2 Transport
• 1.3 Resources
• 1.4 Management qualification for Shishu Kishor
  Club
• 1.5 Training in Asset Languages

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Objectives 4 Celebrate pupil achievement

• 1.1 Shared article published in SSAT Updates with
  the pupils
• 1.2 Eid festival held at school
• 1.3 Head teacher interest in the pupils work
• 1.4 Asset Languages and GCSE qualifications
• 1.5 Multilingual Poetry Day across the LA to be
  held in Summer Term
• 1.6 International Day to be held in July

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Objectives 5Promote Community Cohesion
Challenging the conditions that lead to social
segregation Addressing inequality Providing
services which meet the needs of diverse
communities. httpwww.stpaulsunlimited.org.uk

• 1.1 Bringing communities together through
  Multilingual Poetry Day and International Day
• 1.2 Tackling inequality between the supplementary
  sector and maintained sector

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'If social cohesion is to work then we all have a
responsibility to forge the links that will
provide the "glue" of tolerance' - Siva Pillai,
Director of the Tamil Academy of Languages and
Arts
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Objectives 6 Value plurilingualism
1.1 Geraldine one of two representatives from the
UK to attend ConBat conference in Graz, Austria
Sept 08 about Plurilingualism Content-based
language teaching

• 1.2 Teacher training in languages culture
• 1.3 Supporting students to have multi-cultural
  backgrounds

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Our society is changing, and our need for good
communication across cultures has never been
greater. The UK has a major linguistic asset in
its multicultural population which, if developed
wisely and inclusively alongside English and
other languages, has the potential to benefit
society as a whole as well as improving the life
chances of individual children.
Positively Plurilingual The contribution of
community languages to UK education and society
http//www.cilt.org.uk/pdf/pubs/positively_plurili
ngual.pdf
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Successes
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Successes

• Improved teaching and learning
• Greater variety of resources and approaches
• More formalised scheme of work and lesson
  planning
• Improved facilities
• Higher attendance
• Greater enjoyment of lessons
• Greater sense of pride
• Increase in accreditation
• Huge learning curve for both schools
• Great professional development opportunities for
  teachers in both the maintained and supplementary
  Schools
• Training provided for all local supplementary
  schools (Medway Ethnic Minority Forum)

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Challenges

• Accreditation
• Technology
• Sustainability
• Differentiation
• Greater integration of the two schools

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The Future
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The Future

• How does the supplementary become maintained?
• How does the maintained become supplementary?
• Accreditation for students
• Greater integration of students from both
  schools, e.g. prizegiving, clubs and societies,
  assemblies
• Management qualification for the Shishu Kishor
  Club
• Greater awareness of one anothers teaching
  styles
• Increased partnership work with all supplementary
  schools

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Further Support
http//www.ourlanguages.org.uk/
http//www.cilt.org.uk/commlangs/index.htm
http//www.continyou.org.uk/
Communities in Partnership, the Outward Facing
Twenty first Century School, Stansted (SSAT)
craig.brown_at_cgsb.co.uk
niluchy_at_hotmail.co.uk