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The future developments of

The future developments of. Park Hill Infant & Junior Schools. November 2010. Overview of the meeting. Introductions Purposes of the meeting Primary Strategy – Council Policy and overview of the consultation process Information on the options Questions and comments Next steps.

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  1. The future developments of Park Hill Infant & Junior Schools November 2010

  2. Overview of the meeting • Introductions • Purposes of the meeting • Primary Strategy – Council Policy and overview of the consultation process • Information on the options • Questions and comments • Next steps

  3. There are four possible options for the future organisation of the schools: Option 1: Amalgamation Option 2: Federation Option 3: Expand the Junior school and stay as two separate schools Option 4: Stay as we are

  4. Option 1: Amalgamation Extract from the Local Authority’s Transforming Croydon Schools Cabinet Committee paper on 21 September 2010 • Parent confidence in the continued delivery of a high quality education for their child throughout the whole of the primary phase is likely to be strengthened. • Under single leadership and governance, there are likely to be educational advantages to planning the best possible use of the site, facilities and staff resources. • Curriculum delivery, teaching and learning arrangements and systems for tracking children’s progress can be planned and delivered from a broader base of staff skills and experience. • An all through primary school has additional means of reducing discontinuity at points of transition between classes or key stages. • A common set of school policies for behaviour, home school liaison and other policy matters across the primary phase is educationally desirable and more readily delivered where both infant and junior phases are under single leadership. • One larger school budget will increase the flexibility and range of options for governors and leadership in deciding how best to take forward school priorities and planned improvements to children‘s education. • Parents would apply for a reception place; their child would continue through the school up until year 6.

  5. Option 1: Amalgamation - timetable Key: LA: Local Authority GB: Governing Body TCS: Transforming Croydon Schools

  6. Option 1: Amalgamation – timetable continued… * Interviews for the Headteacher would need to be held during the first week of April to ensure that the resignation period is met. Key: LA: Local Authority GB: Governing Body Sch: Schools OSA: Office of the Schools Adjudicator

  7. Option 2: Federation Key points on Federation • Both schools would remain separate and would continue to receive individual budgets and have separate Headteachers. • The Infant School remains a community school.  The junior School remains a foundation school • Depending on the type of Federation, there could be either a joint or separate governing body. • The schools agree to work together for the benefit of all pupils and their school communities; deciding/setting out for themselves what resources are to be shared between the schools: e.g. staff, teaching, ICT, sports facilities, green space/field. There is also a possibility to share budgets. • Timetable for a federation is led by both schools; both schools are the decision-makers in the final decision to become a federation.

  8. Option 2: Federation There are two possible options for federation; these are a ‘hard’ governance federation and a ‘soft’ governance federation: Key: SLA: Service Level Agreement

  9. Option 3: Expand the Junior school and stay as two separate schools • Increasing demand for places in Croydon • Temporary and permanent expansions • Expansion of Infants in September 2010 • School Strategy for Change • Detailed Feasibility Study • Issues for Discussion

  10. Option 3: Expand the Junior school and stay as two separate schools - timetable Key: LA: Local Authority GB: Governing Body Sch: Schools

  11. Option 4: Stay as we are • The Infant School remains a 3 form entry school, with admission number of 90, with a total of 270 pupils on site • The Junior School remains a 2 form of entry school, with admission number of 60, with a total of 240 pupils on site • Parents would need to apply for a Reception place and then apply again when their child is ready to enter Year 3 for one of the 60 places available in the Juniors • Building works would be carried out to provide permanent accommodation for the Infant School • The Junior School have agreed to admit all 120 pupils in 2011

  12. Next steps… • Questionnaire circulated on Friday 5 November • Summary of questions and answers raised during public meetings sent to parents on Friday 12 November • Questionnaires returned by 3:30pm on 25 November • Comments can be made directly by emailing: school.org@croydon.gov.uk • Consultation closes 25 November

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