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Welcome
to the Ilkeston 14-19 Partnership Website Ilkeston’s
five secondary schools namely, Bennerley School, Ilkeston School, Kirk Hallam
Community Technology College, Saint John Houghton Catholic School, and
Bennerley Fields School, along with South East Derbyshire College, have come
together to plan developments in the belief that · Increased collaborative working will be
of major benefit to students in all 5 schools and the College · The Government’s proposals for 14-19
Education will be best managed and implemented in the Ilkeston area in a
unified and co-ordinated manner. They have agreed to work towards bringing about the following Educational Vision The Ilkeston Secondary Schools
and South East Derbyshire College working innovatively together and in
partnership with Derbyshire LEA, Derbyshire LSC and other Education and
Training Providers, Support Agencies, and Local Employers, will provide all
young people in the area with equal access to 1.
High quality learning experiences 2.
The fullest possible range of 14-19
Pathways leading to the fulfilment of their
potential and an overall further raising of levels of achievement. The Vision
will be realised through the achievement of the following Objectives 1.
The
Partners will work closely together to imaginatively implement the Government’s proposals for 14-19 education and to ensure that all the
educational benefits arising are available equally to all students in the
Ilkeston area or adjacent locality. 2.
The
Partners will work together to provide all young people in the area with an appropriate and high quality education
from the age of 11 through to 19, markedly improving the retention rates
in education and training at 16 and beyond. 3.
The
Partners will seek to develop a
jointly-managed and staffed Sixth Form Centre in Ilkeston, building on
the existing provision at 4.
Collaboration over the development,
planning and delivery of the 14-16 curriculum will increase markedly, building on
existing good practice, in order that students in all the 5 schools will have
equal access to the full range of new vocational and work-related courses as
they are introduced. 5.
Staff Support Networks, based upon existing good practice, will
be established from July 2005 to enable staff across the Partnership to work
together, to share good educational practice, to implement new initiatives
and to develop innovative solutions to new challenges. 6.
The Partners will develop their Specialist Status in order to provide the local educational
community with a range of complementary Specialisms and Centres of Excellence
covering the whole of the 14-19 curriculum. These Specialisms will work in a
coordinated manner to improve the learning opportunities of all Ilkeston
learners with mapped local progression pathways to quality assured post 16
provision. 7.
The Partners, working together, will
accept responsibility for the success of all young people in the Ilkeston
area and will set and
work towards development, participation, progression, participation and
achievement targets for the area as a whole. Overall, Ilkeston area students
already achieve results which are well above national norms and exhibit
considerable Added Value. It is the intention to further improve upon these
performances dealing with areas of weakness and under-achievement as a
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