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Kingsbridge Community College Trust

Concentrating on Raising Standards, The 14-19 agenda and the curriculum in the Specialist Subjects.

This is a Single Trust opened in May 2008.  The College has Science, Arts and Leading Edge status and serves the rural market town of Kingsbridge and the surrounding villages.

Partners: - Astra Zeneca, Plymouth University, The National Marine Aquarium (Plymouth), Rio CIC, The Royal Society of Arts.

The Trust partners Astra Zeneca and Plymouth University were already working with the college and together with the additional partners enabled the school to match the specialisms, Arts and Sciences with local organisations who had National links.  Also the school wanted high profile organisations that would raise aspirations for both staff and pupils.

Examples of trust impact include:

• Pupils experience working in the University laboratories of the Neurological department.
• Professionals from the University contribute to school curriculum in Psychology and Biology lessons...
• The Opening Minds Curriculum (20% of the Year 7curriculum) is increasing skills and competencies rather than content and knowledge. (See TES article “Deer Poo, hippy Rooh and lessons in life for us all”)  Accreditation by ASDAN is now being pursued.
• In Mathematics, Science and PHSE the teaching staff are working with the Aquarium, Astra Zeneca and Rio CIC, respectively.  They are developing new ideas, ways of working and learning activities to engage students.
• Groups of students and staff visit Astra Zeneca and other partners to enrich educational and personal experiences, improve collaborative working and raise student career aspirations.
• Joint CPD activities take place with Astra Zeneca personnel.
• An invigorated Senior Leadership Team which has been given fresh challenges, vision and impetus with one now leading on Social Enterprise with RIO CIC.
• With proactive Trust partners the school has had to address issues and take on new challenges.

Plans for the future include identifying why students make particular future career choices, to address the limitations that pupils impose on themselves. To provide curriculum contact opportunities with Trust Partners to remove many of the artificial boundaries between partners and the school community, so that pupils come to accept partner involvement as a normal school activity. Develop joint staff training opportunities to maximise the diverse skill sets amongst partner organisations and the school.

The School and the Trust partners believe they have made the right decision to form the Trust. 

“We are not quite sure where we are going but we want to be on the journey” (Roger Pope, Headteacher, Kingsbridge Community College)