Exploring Cross-Sector Partnerships: how to build a strategy for an impactful Partnerships Programme - Wednesday 30 November 2022 (Broadway House, London Victoria)

This course aims to: Equip you with the tools you need to develop a coherent, sustainable and impactful partnerships strategy for your school. This course is for: Schools who are looking to initiate or expand collaborations with state schools. Those with responsibility for partnerships: Heads of Partnerships/Outreach/ Community Engagement, Heads, Deputies, Development Directors and External Relations Directors.

Description

Course outline:

Independent schools engage with state schools for a number of different reasons. However, it can be a challenge to move beyond outreach to more meaningful partnership, and hard to know where to start.

This course will help you audit where your school is at, guide thinking on where you would like to be and advise on how to get there. It will be delivered in-person from 10am - 4pm, and within our group we will be able to share ideas and concerns interactively.

Following the course, you will feel more confident about planning, initiating, implementing and evaluating an effective programme of partnerships with your local state schools.

A further course “Developing Partnerships” is available if your partnerships activity is already established. Click here to register for Developing Partnerships.

Course Programme

09.45 – 10.00	Arrival, registration, and coffee
10.00 – 10.05	Welcome and Introduction
	Why? The benefits of partnership for your school. How? Models, structures and types of collaboration. Who? What? Identifying partner schools and the strengths and gaps of both schools; supporting your development plan or mission statement.
11.15 - 11.30	Refreshment break
	Case studies – what works well? Learning from others, considering scope and resource constraints. Balancing vision and practicalities.
12:30 – 13:00	Lunch
	How? Making the first move in a new collaboration; building relationships. Impact evaluation – how to know if we are making a difference; assessing resource allocation to steer activities.
14.30 - 14.45	Refreshment break
	Sustainability – embedding partnerships for longevity, including support from senior leaders, colleagues and students; the importance of internal and external communications. Take-aways, including the Partnerships Planning Framework.
16:00	Closing remarks and depart

This course is for:

Schools who are looking to initiate or expand collaborations with state schools.

Those with responsibility for partnerships: Heads of Partnerships/Outreach/ Community Engagement, Heads, Deputies, Development Directors and External Relations Directors.

What will you gain by attending?

Equip you with the tools you need to develop a coherent, sustainable and impactful partnerships strategy for your school.

Course Director Bio:

Christina is a prominent thought-leader on partnerships, especially cross-sector, and helps schools build strategic partnerships for mutual benefit. She is Founder-Chair of the Schools Together Group (now the School Partnerships Alliance), established whilst she was Head of Partnerships at King’s Canterbury. She offers bespoke consultancy and mentoring for schools, directs training programmes and speaks and writes on school partnerships. In January 2022 she launched #PartnerChat, a series of free monthly breakfast briefings.
She is also a school science consultant (having taught physics for over 20 years) and advises corporate clients on their educational outreach.
@ChristinaAstin