An article in Red Pepper magazine exploring the co-operative movement as an alternative to marketisation notes that adopting the co-operative model is a way for schools to avoid being ‘forced into an academy’.
The article’s author, Hilary Wainwright, discusses ‘alternatives that enable them to realise their public services values’, with input from Mervyn Wilson, Chief Executive [...]
Children, staff and parent volunteers travelled from Western Springs Primary School, Rugeley, to Moorhill Primary School, Cannock, to celebrate becoming The Chase Co-operative Learning Trust. Students took part in Science, D&T, Art, PE and Maths activities, presented in stimulating and exciting ways. They also had the opportunity to take time out to meet and greet [...]
Bubbles, glitter and a whole lot of fun went into making a short animation about working together at the Meet the Pioneers schools’ day at Rochdale Town Hall last week.
The film tells the story of animation through a shimmering fishbowl of delicately glittering fish, which are menaced by a bigger fish until the small fish [...]
Hundreds of Rochdale primary students helped push a wheelbarrow the distance from Manchester to Rochdale during a Pioneers-themed day at Rochdale Town Hall.
More than 300 students from Rochdale primary schools will find out about the Rochdale Pioneers on 9 May.
A grassroots documentary film called To the Moon will be following a group of college students called Co-Cycle as they lead a group of cyclists across America, starting from San Francisco and ending in Amherst, Massachusetts.
The cyclists will be conducting research about local co-operative businesses and helping spread awareness by staging workshops and community events.
The [...]
Primary school students from across Rochdale became bee-fects at a bee-themed outreach afternoon across the road from the Pioneers Museum on Toad Lane.
Tavistock College in Devon is consulting to become a co-operative Trust school, in a move that its Principal says is “genuinely about involving the community”.
The school plans to team up with the Tavistock Chamber of Commerce, UCP Marjon and the co-operative movement to form the Trust, aiming to build partnerships to help drive forward improvement.
Principal [...]
The first multi-academy co-operative Trust in the country was formed in Thurrock, Essex, at the start of April.
On 1 April, East Tilbury Infant School and East Tilbury Junior School became Academies, joining St Clere’s School as equal partners in a co-operative Academy Trust: the first multi-academy co-operative Trust in the country. The Department for Education [...]
Whole Education’s Northern conference will support school leaders in responding to the current challenging circumstances and pressures to become an outstanding school.
Whole Education is a not-for-profit organisation that brings together leading education projects which demonstrate a commitment to a more rounded education for young people. The conference will bring together leading educationalists, school leaders and [...]
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