PARTNERSHIPS & OUTREACH 2019/20 At Leighton Park our Quaker values focus our activities as we build young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world. A sense of responsibility, a commitment to helping others and a determination to make a difference is the beating heart of our school. Throughout 2019/2020 we made a significant impact in our local community creating and strengthening partnerships and by offering enrichment activities.
NUMBER OF KS2 SCHOOLS ENGAGED: 25
KS2 SPORTS ORIENTATED EVENTS DELIVERED SEPT 2018 - AUGUST 2020
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20
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15
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STUDENTS ENGAGED
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2019-20
SINCE 2017 WE HAVE WORKED WITH 1584 KS2 STUDENTS NUMBER OF KS2 EVENTS ORGANISED: 25
KS2 STEAM FOCUSSED EVENTS DELIVERED SEPT 2018 - AUGUST 2020
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453
STUDENTS ENGAGED
SEPT 2017 - AUGUST 2020 KS3 OUTREACH
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20
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10
SCHOOLS INVOLVED
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285
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2018-19
2019-20
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
ENRICHMENT
Whitley Community Development Association On 5th June, Head of Boys’ Games, Tim Green, ran an on-campus marathon raising over £3,000 for our partner charity, Whitley CDA, and during lockdown our students and their families have donated food and hygiene products. From September, our Year 10 Community Action Service volunteers will begin work on a living town museum for the residents of Whitley.
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Working with LP has been amazing. They have wrapped their arms around us and found a range of creative ways to support our work with the Whitley community.
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Trisha Bennett, Community Development Coordinator for Whitley CDA
Age UK Reading In addition to the care packages organised through LP Donate, Age UK Reading received two screens to enable the safe re-opening of their toe clipping service and shared some musical medicine during lockdown. Collating student recordings ranging from Debussy, to The Beatles, and including some original music, Megan White (Upper Sixth), created an LP Radio Show.
The voices were absolutely brilliant; the “ residents and the staff really appreciated it, most of them were singing along.”
Revathy Jayakumar, Northcourt Lodge Nursing Home
We want all students to experience the LP difference, achievement with values, character and community, regardless of where they are educated. Each year we curate an inspiring programme which aims to enrich, delight and intrigue young minds. During 2019/20 we worked with local sustainable design consultancy, Design Thinking Ltd, to host a sustainable product design workshop for Year 5s and deliver a sustainability challenge day to six teams of Sixth Formers from three visiting schools. Our Year 10 Dance students and Head of Dance collaboratively choreographed the finale of a Year 6 production of ‘The Lion King’ for Farley Hill Primary and our talented Food Tech team hosted a series of mini-bake off competitions for 44 children from three schools. Amicus, our Sixth Form Charity Group, collected toys and gifts from the community for the Reading Family Aid Christmas appeal.
EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS Red Balloon In 2019/20 we have established a partnership with Red Balloon Reading to support teachers at their school where 24 students aged 11-16 are offered therapeutic care and an education that meets their needs. We are looking forward to sharing Continuous Professional Development with their staff and providing opportunities for co-teaching.
Loddon Primary Plans for an academic mentoring partnership with Loddon Primary School, supported by Headteacher, Sarah Phillips, and overseen by our Literacy Coordinator, Leana Mikula, have been drawn up this year. Through our Community Activity Service (CAS) programme, students in Year 10 will be given the opportunity to become literacy/reading mentors and buddies. One to one reading sessions will be put in place to support literacy progress. Our Year 10 students will initially embark on a mentor training program with literacy charity, ABC Reading, preparing to support an individual Loddon student each week.
Whiteknights Swimming Partnership Now in its fifth year, our Whiteknights Swimming partnership is a flagship, mutually beneficial relationship. Our Year 10s work towards their Sports Leader Award by coaching Whiteknights KS2 pupils to attain the national curriculum benchmark of 10 metres unaided swimming. Meeting weekly in our pool, students and staff from both primary and secondary schools have built a fantastic programme of achievement through sport.
Foundry College Pupil Referral Unit Foundry College Pupil Referral Unit in Wokingham provides a bespoke education offering an alternative to mainstream education. Together, we have established a three-year plan which will provide sporting and musical opportunities to vulnerable students. So far KS2 students have enjoyed weekly drumming and parkour sessions and work experience placements for KS4 students were given in the Spring Term. During lockdown, LP staff visited Foundry with weekly donations of lego, books, garden equipment, refreshments and paint for students attending school during the pandemic.
I have four very excited little boys who had a wonderful time today and their staff “ whose anxieties around this new experience have been put in check. Please convey my personal thanks to your staff for making this such a positive experience for all.� Jay Blundell, Headteacher, Foundry College
STRIPES IN ACTION LP Donate LP students and their families galvanised to support key partner organisations through our popular LP Donate stream. Weekly donations of items for those affected by Covid-19 included hygiene products for Launchpad Reading, food parcels for Whitley Community Development Association (CDA), books/board games for ABC Reading and care packages for Age UK Reading.
On behalf of my mum and stepdad, an enormous “thank you for their gift that arrived this morning. They don’t receive gifts very often and we’re delighted with what you sent them. Joan says it feels like Christmas! Amanda Blofield
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Safer Vision Hub Partnership At Easter our Head of DT founded an incredible hub partnership producing PPE for frontline keyworkers fighting Coronavirus across Berkshire. Bringing together 18 partner schools, three commercial organisations and one university, the ‘Safer Vision’ hub partnership created and dispatched over 39,000 face shields at a time of national crisis. £28,000 was raised for materials through our GoFundMe crowd-funding site and the partnership made a difference to almost 500 organisations desperate for vital PPE. Response in the community was amazing and even attracted national television coverage from BBC One’s documentary series, ‘Ross Kemp and Britain’s Volunteer Army’.
These selfless acts of kindness from the local “community are what keeps spirits high and momentum lifted. We all make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give. The school should be very proud of that
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Gareth Williams, Chief Commercial Officer, Choice Care Group Natasha Coccia, Assistant Head, Partnerships & Outreach Leighton Park School, Shinfield Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 7ED // natashacoccia@leightonpark.com // 0118 987 9600