Read about converting to a co-operative Academy in Academy Magazine

The Head of the first co-operative converter Academy in the country has shared his experiences in a three-page article for the spring edition of FASNA’s Academy Magazine, saying he is ‘very proud’.

David Keetley, Headteacher of Kirkby Stephen Grammar School, a small, rural school in Cumbria, explains that the next priorities are embedding co-operation in the curriculum, developing the local co-operative forum and membership scheme and working as part of the Schools Co-operative Society.

He said: “We are starting to feel that we are now on the radar, part of a family of schools of all sorts – locally, across country and nationally…an integral part of the co-operative movement.”

Read the full article online at www.johncatt.com/magazines/academy/issue/Academy_Issue1_2/3dissue.swf (pp44-47).

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