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The Story of ‘BEST’ Setting the Vision & Working Across Schools What is a Trust? Why ‘go Trust’?

The Story of ‘BEST’ Setting the Vision & Working Across Schools What is a Trust? Why ‘go Trust’? Reflections on Central Beds. BEST – a natural progression from Learning Communities and the Pyramid working A Deputy Head was seconded and paid for by the Upper School for a year

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The Story of ‘BEST’ Setting the Vision & Working Across Schools What is a Trust? Why ‘go Trust’?

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  1. The Story of ‘BEST’ Setting the Vision & Working Across Schools What is a Trust? Why ‘go Trust’? Reflections on Central Beds

  2. BEST – a natural progression from Learning Communities and the Pyramid working • A Deputy Head was seconded and paid for by the Upper School for a year • Endless meetings to explain the Trust and what it means • Established with the Upper, all 3 Middles, and only 6 of the 18 Lowers. • Employs a CEO and an administrator now. • Immediate successes – the £2 million bid for a shared services community facility (nursery, police, medical etc) • UTC, Academy support, lots of competitions, collaborative learning, services,

  3. Setting a vision – dig-out your NPQH notes! • Involvement of all but ensure ‘action’ • A 0-19 school across different sites with different ethos • Improving the learning journey and transition • Set up a representative board of trustees • Relations with governors and individual governing bodies • Based on educational decisions

  4. A Trust is a legal entity that allows you to collaborate within a secure framework • Removal of personal relationships • MUST go Foundation • Trust is reversible

  5. How has Trust helped us? Why go Trust? • Think not of what the Trust can do for you.. • Bids / Partnerships / Collaboration / Enterprise – Multi-Services block, Teaching School, UTC, PRU, Extended Schools, Studio Theatre, Laptop classroom, Old Lower School, Academy solicitors / support, Co-op links, • Shared staffing – Data, Languages, Supply, Drama, across Middle & Upper and across Middles (re-deployment of our ASTs) • Morally, the right thing for our pupils?

  6. Central Beds and BEST reflections… • Top down or cross-phase? • The take-over? • Tangible and quick wins… • The difference in language and priorities • Governance and role of governors • Use it! • Base major decisions around it…

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