Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands CoOp

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• Why go trust?
• History of school innovation and success
• Closure and relocation agenda
• Government/shadow govt policy
• Provision for our 19 clientele
• Working positively with the LA
• Overwhelming support to do so
• Ofsted thought Trust was great!!

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Selly Oak Trust School Vision

• An overarching trust to value, develop and extend
  the schools proud tradition, ensuring that its
  direction and development carry forward in
  partnership with and focussed on the needs of its
  community.

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The Selly Oak Trust vision will

• Advance the education of the pupils at Selly Oak
  School.
• Extend its range of operations to support more
  fully our community of former students and
  parents of its students.
• Advocate for students with SEN and for excellent
  SEN provision particularly Special Schools.
• Have Incorporated Charitable status enabling
  increased fund raising
• Offer even greater support to its many
  communities of schools

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The charitable aims of the Trust are

• To relieve the needs of and advance the education
  of
• persons with SEN in particular but not
  exclusively by
• The provision of advice counselling or support
• Assisting in the provision of facilities
• Educating the public about the needs of persons
  with special educational needs
• To provide or assist in the provision of
  facilities in the interest of social welfare for
  recreation or other leisure time occupation of
  individuals who have need of such facilities by
  reason of their youth, age, infirmity or
  disability, financial hardship or social
  circumstances with the object of improving their
  condition of life

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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?
1 Empowerment of the community of parents of
children with SEN
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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?

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• Organise and extend into a wrap around
• service the support available to the largely
  disenfranchised group of adults with SEN

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What do we hope to achieve as a Trust?

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• Expand work related learning opportunities and
  enrich our curriculum

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Support for the curriculum
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Support for the curriculum
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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• A brief introduction
• Largest regional co-op in the UK
• Trade across 12 counties
• Retail, Travel, Funeral, Transport, Property
• Member organisation
• Bound by established values

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• We value
• Supporting our organisation
• Recognising effort and achievement
• Success
• Openness and honesty
• Continually improving
• Customer focus
• Strong community focus
• Similar values to Selly Oak Trust School

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• Why did we say yes?
• Shared vision and values
• Impressed by Schools achievements
• Opportunity to build a lasting relationship
• Opportunity to engage our employees
• Opportunity to raise profile for business reasons
• The chance to really make a difference

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• How did we first engage with Selly Oak?
• Community Dividend Grant Science Specialist
  College status bid
• Followed by
• Effective Management programme

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• How can we help the School?
• Staff access to our training courses
• Input to curriculum
• Work placements
• Building commercial awareness
• Careers advice
• Help with influencing the influencers

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• Whats in it for us?
• Profile raising
• Volunteering opportunities for staff
• Joint PR opportunities
• Training/development opportunities for our staff
• Opportunity to influence the curriculum to
• prepare students for the world of work
• Help with employee engagement

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Selly Oak Trust School and Midlands Co-Op

• Fairtrade Shopping challenge
• Fairtrade assembly
• Farm to Fork (visit to Co-op farm)
• Business enterprise module
• Visits to Conkers (heart of the National Forest
  educational resource)
• Floristry demonstration/flower donations
• Careers advice including mock interviews
• Customer care advice for retail module
• Work placements for students
• Prize nights
• Project management support with time management,
  office practice etc)
• Commercial Awareness
• Shopping familiarisation exercise