Orchard School

Shepherdswell School

Fosse Primary School

Marriott Primary School

As part of the Full Service Extended School in Bedford, for the past three years, we have been working with:-

Queens Park Neighbourhood Centre

Westfield Middle School

Biddenham Upper School

We have extended this reach to also offer ‘Premises Management’ support to a number of other local schools:-

Lakeview Lower School

Priory Lower School

Gothic Mede Lower School

We are strongly committed to working in partnership with other schools – especially those in our local community. We have been an active member of recent ‘collaboratives’ – the Education Action Zone in Bedford, the Excellence Cluster and the Bedford Learning Community.

We are a ‘training partner’ with the following organisations and regularly have students study with us on a variety of programmes.

University of Bedfordshire

Pilgrim SCITT
(School Centred Initial Teacher Training)

This year (2010-11) – our primary focus is working in Partnership with the Shepherdswell and Orchard Federation in Milton Keynes. We are supported in this work by:-

Third Wave Enterprises

For the next two years the Leadership Team will provide the leadership needed at the Federation to ensure continuing improvement across all aspects of school life. We also continue to work with TWE to deliver school improvement programmes – specifically ‘The Improving Teacher Programme (ITP) and ‘Beyond Monitoring.

As a school that delivers the curriculum through IPC we work in partnership with other schools developing this approach to curriculum delivery and are always willing to share our learning and learn from others.

IPC
(the International Primary Curriculum)

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to learn with us.