Post on 30-Mar-2015
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• Our Challenges:– Deprivation – 3rd– Separated/divorced – 8th
– Lone parents – 1st
– Unemployed – 3rd
– Never worked – 1st (7%)– Council Housing – 1st (32%)– 1/4 of adults have recognised literacy &
numeracy issues
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A Co-operative Academy
Menu Customers Staff Surroundings
Simplifies the menu
What do they want?
Get the correct people for each job
Changes the layout & décor
in the restaurant
Student Curriculum
Courses Provided
Local Businesses
What do they
require?
Specialist Teachers
Environment
Need for a multi-
purpose environmen
tWhere are there gaps in the local
workforce?
Sharing specialist
staff
Students
Do they suit our
students?
Why on earth did governors say yes?
• CVA no longer relevant
• Why not?
The first 48 hours!Radio Times - Educating Essex: a different class
The DM - What sort of example is this to set our children? Teachers call pupils 'scumbags' and the
head flicks V-signs at his deputy in school praised as 'outstanding‘
The Sun - Headteacher flicks a V-sign and a teacher calls the kids ‘scumbags’... welcome to the
school PRAISED by Ofsted
The Turning Tide
• Reader response to the DM
• 25000 emails – 4 negative!
• Twitter and the ‘Drew’ factor.
• The Grauniad
Passmores Public Property
• Expectation that we wanted to go on TV all the time!
Ongoing Opportunities and Benefits
• Positive impact on students
• Teacher Recruitment
• More over-subscribed
• Very Important Visitors
• Mr Drew got a headship
My journey with governors
We all have a choice
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