Exploring Cross-Sector Partnerships: How to build impactful school partnerships - Thursday 9 May 2024 (Broadway House, London)

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, 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 already established and will be available and bookable in the new academic year.

Course Programme:

Time	Session
10.15	Arrival, registration, and coffee
10.30	Welcome and introduction
10.35	Session 1: Why? The benefits of partnership for your school. How? Models, structures and types of collaboration. Who? What? Identifying partner schools and the strengths and needs of both schools.
11.45	Refreshment break in lounge
12.00	Session 2: Case studies – what works well? Learning from others. Structuring and staffing partnerships.
13.00	Lunch in restaurant
13.45	Session 3: How? Making the first move in a new collaboration; building relationships. Impact evaluation – how to know if we are making a difference? Measuring (and communicating) outcomes not outputs. Take-aways and further support.
15.30	Closing remarks and depart

Course Director Bio:

Christina is a prominent thought-leader on partnerships, especially cross-sector, and is author of Partnerships WorkBook, a DIY course in Building a Cross-Sector Partnerships Strategy. 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. www.astinconsulting.com/partnerships @ChristinaAstin