PROSPERE NEWS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
HALF TERM 3
2021 - 2022
Dear members of our Trust community, Thank you to all of you for supporting our schools and the children and young people in them, this half term. This half term’s newsletter has one of our Trust improvement foci as the main theme. We want to recognise the hard work everyone has done to ensure that we create an inclusive environment in which diversity and equality are valued so that all our students feel confident and safe in their own personal identity. It is clear that all of our schools have put the ‘Community of Belonging’ at the heart of school life. This is more important now than ever before. Through these initiatives, each school is striving to educate and challenge to reduce prejudice and discrimination. Our high expectations of students mean we continually strive to be the best we can. The sharing of expertise across the mainstream and specialist schools within the Trust is supporting the offer for all our students. Our staff are all working hard on developments within the curriculum and creating wider, thoughtfully tailored, school resources to make sure all students feel represented. We strive to be a community in which all can see reflections of themselves and belong to a culture which is adaptive and responsive to the wider world and community contexts. Have a good half term holiday, Linda Jones, Chief Executive Officer Dave Bell, Executive Headteacher Andy Park, Executive Headteacher
OUR VISION FOR A COMMUNITY OF BELONGING provide exceptional education for children from any background so that they become TRUST • To happy, confident adults with excellent academic knowledge and qualifications. Prospere Trust is committed to fully comprehensive education and working in and VISION • The around Greater Manchester to provide inspiring, memorable schooling for all its students. To achieve our vision and uphold our values the Trust aims to create an inclusive environment in which diversity and equality are valued, we want all students to feel confident and safe in their own personal identity. We strive to be aware of the ever-changing challenges faced by our students both in the modern world and within the contexts of their local communities, we believe that this is critical to the student’s academic motivation, success and wellbeing. We put belonging at the heart of school life. Trust Community of Belonging initiatives are focused around 6 key areas:
Personal Identity • Anti-Racism • LGBTQ & Gender Disability • Sexism, misogyny and misandry • Religion and belief Our schools have been working on creating a Community of Belonging and are embodying this is all areas of school life, we celebrate this in the ‘Schools News’ section of this newsletter. We were very proud and excited to see Grange School feature on BBC’s Newsround this January! The team visited Grange to film a feature based on the extra curricular offer, highlighting how working with animals can support young people with autism. The BBC team met with Grange pupils Kaylem, Asia’nae, Kyle, Cristian, Liam and Terrence who thoroughly enjoyed meeting the team and explained all about how they take care of the resident animals and how this makes them feel. “The animals help me feel calm and happy” Read the full story on our website here.