From tenants to partners: collaborative working between supplementary schools and mainstream schools

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From tenants to partners collaborative working
between supplementary schools and mainstream
schools

• Rémi Gonthier
• Interim Director
• The National Resource Centre for Supplementary
  Education

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So, what is the NRC?
A new national strategic support organisation
for the supplementary education sector across
England funded by the DCSF and the Paul Hamlyn
Foundation and aiming to be a national
champion for excellence, innovation and
partnership in supplementary education.
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Our aims
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House of Commons debate 27th February 08

• The Government could do more to encourage
  mainstream schools to take advantage of the
  benefits that supplementary schools bring,
  especially by supporting supplementary education
  through the successful extended schools
  programme

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House of Commons debate

• Supplementary schools and mainstream schools
  link together to contribute to the integration
  and attainment of children. Where that is taking
  place in a genuine partnership, the impact is
  demonstrable and impressive.

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What weve done so far

• Audited existing partnerships
• Developed new partnerships
• Published case studies to showcase best practice
  and
• Worked closely with extended services teams

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What we want to do next

• Support existing partnerships and facilitate the
  development of new beneficial partnerships
• Campaign for extended schools to charge at cost
  or offer premises for free

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PYCA and Coleman Primary (Leicester)

• Coleman school has trained PYCAs staff in data
  analysis and appraisal techniques, they are also
  referring pupils to PYCA. All activities are
  running from PYCA premises. PYCA has setup a
  forum which includes headteachers from
  neighbouring schools, the NRC, the Local
  Authority and parents.

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Liaison with parents

• Turkish Youth Association and Spring Park School
  (Croydon)
• The partnership is mainly around liaising with
  and supporting parents of pupils at school e.g.
  in the bridging the communication gap and giving
  advice on school admissions. There are some joint
  activities e.g. language support at parents
  evening, community language teaching,
  interpreting, liaison with parents, celebrations
  and assemblies.
• The Russian Saturday School and Westwood School
  (Croydon)
• The mainstream school refers pupils to
  supplementary school. The supplementary school
  has teachers who are certified examiners for
  Edexcel and the mainstream school utilises them
  as a resource at examination time. The
  supplementary school is invited by the mainstream
  school to consult with parents and children where
  English is not understood.
• Both organisations work jointly on parents
  evenings, community language teaching,
  interpreting, liaison with parents, celebrations,
  assemblies.

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Transition work

• The Polish School of Lincoln and St Peters and
  St Pauls School (Lincoln)
• The secondary school has been working with the
  Polish school on transition work, making sure
  that Yr6 pupils who attend the Polish school get
  a chance to familiarise themselves with their
  secondary school.

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Raising achievement

• Claudia Jones Organisation and Stoke Newington
  College (Hackney, London)
• This partnership is around supporting
  underachieving black boys. The mainstream has
  made classrooms available for the supplementary
  school on weekends and after school hours. The
  mainstream school refers pupils to the
  supplementary school and also extends advice and
  support to the supplementary school staff and
  teachers.

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• Rémi Gonthier
• Interim Director
• The National Resource Centre for Supplementary
  Education
• remi.gonthier_at_continyou.org.uk
• 02476 689 250