Agenda item

Report of the Acting Headmaster of the City of London School.

The Board received a report of the Acting Headmaster, which provided an overview of the successful bid to the London Schools Excellence Fund for funds to support the introduction of a Sixth Form at the Stepney Green Maths, Computing and Science College (Stepney Green).

Two of the School’s staff who were most closely involved with the project, the Head of Sixth Form and the Head of RE and Project Coordinator provided a short presentation to the Governors outlining the support the School would be providing to assist both the teaching of Stepney Green students and training to teachers who have limited experience of A-Level teaching.

The Head of Sixth Form explained that this bid had developed out of the long standing relationship with Stepney Green and success would be monitored by the A level results of Stepney Green students, with the projected data that had been gathered. City of London School (CLS) staff involved in the project would also keep journals, which could help draw together the impact of activities that would be undertaken. Teachers in both schools would benefit from the partnership developing further school leadership and management skills, which could be assessed though the HMC.

The Head of RE and Project Manager said CLS staff would engage through close mentoring, conducting afterschool master classes in five subjects in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and English. Stepney Green and CLS staff would visit each other’s school and would be in regular contact to develop the partnership collaboratively. The Chairman and Governors remarked that this project was unprecedented and was important to building strong communication and outreach between independent and state schools and that the outcomes could be measured in some way.

Governors discussed the possibility of holding a future meeting of the Board at Stepney Green, which the Head of Sixth Form explained would be welcomed and the Chairman remarked this could be discussed in further detail outside the meeting.

RESOLVED – That the report be received and its contents noted.