2022 - 2024 Community Plan
Community within the Trust The Marches Academy Trust’s vison is ‘Achievement Through Caring’. We believe that our children are part of our community of learners and as such we work hard to create a sense of belonging and connection in our family of schools. Our staff across the Trust work hard to form effective partnerships within each of our communities; it is this work that makes each school unique as each community has its own character. I have put together examples of how each of our schools are building strong foundations in their communities that will help the school community to evolve and best serve the children. We also do all that we can to support all our children and young people to contribute and strengthen their own communities. The Trust has strengthened Local Governing Bodies (LGB) and built upon the lines of communication so that our Governors from all schools in the Trust feel connected and more importantly an integral part of the journey of the Trust. Our Trust has connected with Health, Police and Social Services in Shropshire to ensure that our children and communities are getting the support they need to thrive. The Trust has a successful partnership with Shrewsbury School. We are sharing good practice in maths, careers, Sixth Form, ExpertEd and the development of talented sports people. All schools are looking at ways to connect with their communities from open days at Longlands Primary School where the community were invited in to spend time in the social farm to the Marches School holding a kindness week, where they took cards with messages of gratitude to members of the Oswestry community. The Trust continues to build on its partnership with Shrewsbury Town in the Community. This benefits our children in the Trust and the wider community. We are fortunate that the Rotarians based in each of the areas that our schools are located in are proactively involved in supporting our schools through mock interviews, mentoring and fundraising to support special projects. Our schools continue to play a vital role in collecting and distributing food parcels to their communities.
Sarah Sarah Finch CEO, The Marches Academy Trust
At Grange Primary, our school values of being ‘kind’ and ‘respectful’ ensure that community is at the heart of all that we do. Through working with our families, local residents, Trust, clubs, charities, businesses and wider organisations; we develop our pupils’ understanding of collaboration and partnership. We believe when students, parents and teachers, as well as our broader school members feel connected, there is a greater sense of belonging, school pride and motivation to teach and learn. Our personalised curriculum has been inspired by our children’s interests and our community. Through this, we ensure pupils are engaged in their learning to support them in meeting their potential. Pupils are given a range of opportunities to engage in: sporting events, community experiences, visitors into school, educational visits and workshops and fundraisers. These links and experiences shape the behaviour of our pupils, inspire our children and give them aspirations for their future pathways.
Charlie Charlie Summers Headteacher The Grange Primary School
Since the HAF Programme was launched, Grange Primary have taken part in all programmes.
In the past 12 months, we have supported over 25 parents with our parent workshops. Over the past 3 years, we have supported over 250 families with food from The Shrewsbury Food Hub.
Our Community Plan ACTION / AIM
TIMESCALE
EXTRA CURRICULUM Working with Shropshire Council and the HAF Programme, continue to look at this additional funding to support our families and community over the school holidays.
2022/24 Ongoing
Charlie Summers and George Hounsell to work together to run annual sports competitions against local schools school as Greenacres Primary School. Sports to include football, cricket and netball.
2022/24 Ongoing
Working with the local sporting organisations to setup a wider variety of extra curriculum clubs for pupils. Such a boxing, football and dance.
2022/24 Ongoing
LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS To run open social farm events to the welcome the elderly and venerable residents in our community.
2022/24 Ongoing
Continue to work with North Shropshire College to work with our parents and the local community by running essential academic workshops.
2022/24 Ongoing
Continuing to build our working relationship with local charity, The Shrewsbury Food Hub by supplying our community with free food.
2022/24 Ongoing
To setup and introduce a swop shop run by our parents and community for our parents and community members.
2022/24 Ongoing
WIDER COMMUNITY To look at the possibilities of working with the Shrewsbury Town Centres on promoting Grange Primary School. Ideas include promoting the schools artwork in the empty shop windows.
2022/24
To work with local events and festivals to promote Grange Primary School. Events to consider include Shropshire Kids Fest and Christmas Festival.
2022/24 Ongoing
Look to build connections with local pre schools and nursery's to promote Grange Primary School to parents and guardians.
2022/24 Ongoing
Working with local organisations and businesses in our area to gain sponsorship, support and funding. In previous years, local companies have supported us with football kits and social farm equipment.
2022/24 Ongoing
Case Studies Safety Visit & Talk In June 2021 & December 2022 the children in EYFS & KS1 welcomed a very special visitor into school. PCSO Tara Carruthers spoke to pupils about her role in the local community and talked about keeping them and their families safe. She spoke to the group about ‘stranger danger’ and gave them some information to take home. The children were very interested in what Tara had to say and said they had seen her lots in the community. Tara said to give her a wave next time they saw her! We feel very lucky to have Tara keeping us safe in our community. Sun Flower Project In May 2021, all of our classes planted sunflower seeds, demonstrating amazing teamwork and knowledge about what plants need to grow. They also decorated and written special messages to be delivered to local care home residents working with Morrisons Shrewsbury.
Partnered Programmes / Events
Grange Primary School take part in regular programmes, events and projects with the local and wider community to offer our pupils a wider curriculum offer. Over the past 12 months these have included: HAF Programme in partnership with The Shrewsbury Club Read the Game Programme (Shrewsbury Town Football Club) Chance 2 Shine Workshops (Shropshire Cricket Board) Cycle in Learning with Shropshire Council Pantathlon Competitions Pro Strike fundraising event North Shropshire College parent workshops Shropshire Tennis Scheme workshops Local police talks Shrewsbury School dance workshops PTA events such as film nights Understanding your child workshops
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