Principal: Kate Evans

Principal: Kate Evans

"Bottisham Village College is a good school with many outstanding features."

"Opportunities for individual students to enjoy school and achieve well, through a wide range of vocational and academic qualifications and awards, show that 'Every Child Matters' is both policy and practice."

Ofsted September 2007

 

Identified as a ‘particularly successful school’ by

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in January 2005

 

 

Consultation on Bottisham Village College

becoming a Foundation School and

establishing the Bottisham Education Trust

 

 

Bottisham Village College is considering becoming a Trust School and changing status from a Community School to a Foundation School. This letter is to outline our ideas and proposals and as part of our consultation process to ask for your views.

 

 

Our Proposed Trust

 

Trust Schools are a new kind of maintained state school – part of the Local Authority system, but supported by a Charitable Trust. The Governing Body would continue to run the school and be responsible for its performance and Mrs Evans would continue as Principal. We would still maintain our strengths as a local comprehensive village college, serving our local community.

 

The Governing Body of Bottisham Village College are proposing to establish a Trust with a range of local partner organisations and agencies, enabling us to build strong and sustainable partnerships which we believe would lead to improved levels of achievement and life chances for all of our students. The proposed partner organisations are:

  • Cambridge Building Society

  • Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

  • Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

  • John Lewis Partnership

  • The Marshall Group of Companies

  • The National Stud

  • Red2Green

 

What does this mean for Students?

 

Bottisham Village College is committed to helping every student achieve their full potential, both socially and academically and therefore the Every Child Matters outcomes remain our highest priority. These challenging outcomes are to ensure that all students:

  • Be Healthy

  • Stay Safe

  • Enjoy and Achieve

  • Making a Positive Contribution

  • Achieve Economic Well-Being

 

The Trust will help us to achieve these aims by developing opportunities for representatives from partner organisations to be involved in the day to day life of the college. Examples of this involvement might be:

  • Contributing to our Personal Social Health Education days

  • Speaking to students about a particular area of the curriculum

  • Providing an insight into the world of work

 

What does this mean for Parents?

 

The College will remain part of the Local Authority family of maintained schools; we will still teach the National Curriculum and we will continue to be bound by the Schools Admissions Code.

 

It is not envisaged that the number of Parent Governors will change. The Trust will appoint two Governors to the Governing Body.

 

 

How can I find out more information?

 

The College has produced a Consultation Paper, “The Bottisham Education Trust Consultation Document” and a “Frequently Asked Questions” document, both available on this website. Paper copies are available on request from Student Reception at the college.

 

 

Consultation Process

 

We are very interested in your views on our proposals. You can express them in the following ways:

  • Completing this questionnaire (DOC / PDF) and returning it to the school office

  • Writing to the Clerk of Governors, c/o the school office

  • Email to consultation@bottishamvc.org

  • Attending the Trust Consultation meeting on Tuesday, 26th January at 7.00pm in the Main Hall of the school

The deadline for the submission of all comments and responses to the proposals is Friday, 26th February 2010.

 

Following this consultation period Governors will then review all comments and will decide whether or not to go ahead and publish a statutory proposal, and if so, whether to amend the proposals to reflect any suggestions or concerns that emerge through the consultation process.

 

If the Governing Body goes on to publish statutory proposals then there will be a further opportunity for comments and representations before it takes a final decision on whether to implement those proposals.

 


Mr Philip Hodgson
Chair of Governors

 

 

 

Additional Information:

 

Useful Websites:

 

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www.bottishamvc.org/red2green

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