PROSPERE NEWS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
HALF TERM 1
2021 - 2022
Dear members of our Trust Community, Thank you for your support to ensure that the return to school has been smooth and successful for our students. It was wonderful to see our schools returning to much more normality in September. We are delighted to report that all of our schools have had a strong start to the year, and attendance for our pupils, compared to national, is high. As you can see from this newsletter, the pandemic isn’t stopping us in delivering an amazing educational offer for our children and young people. We are immensely proud of all the high-quality learning in the classrooms that we have seen on our visits to schools. We were also delighted with how well the students that left us over the Summer performed at our schools. This was testament not only to their resilience and hard work, but also to the dedication of the staff supporting them through their challenging final year in school, and the support they received from parents, carers and families. Looking forward to the year ahead, we will once again have to be ready to embrace the unexpected. Across the Trust, we have delivered so much over the past twelve months and will do so again. To name just a few things, we have built new school environments, continued to grow in student and staff numbers and created a central services team. We are now privileged to educate and care for over 5000 children across our schools. By working together, we will continue to provide the best possible education for each one of our children. Linda Jones, Chief Executive Officer Andy Park, Executive Headteacher Dave Bell, Executive Headteacher
MEET THE TRUSTEES In last year’s Prospere community news, we began to introduce our Trustees, we will continue to share information about our Trustees in the upcoming newsletters. This half term, we would like to introduce Amanda Edwards and Bev Ridyard. Amanda Edwards - Trustee Amanda works in education and became a governor because she wanted to support her children’s school. Amanda has over ten years experience as a governor and in that time she has been the Chair of Governors at three different schools and a Trustee for the Prospere Learning Trust. Amanda’s professional background is in Special Educational Needs. She has over 25 years’ experience as an Advisory Teacher for SpLD. She has a Masters in Autistic Spectrum and Masters in Management and Education, as well as an Advanced Diploma in SpLD. The knowledge she has gained from being a Governor and Trustee has supported her own professional development and given her greater insight into the strategic management of a school. POP UP COVID-19 VACCINATION CENTRES + BOOSTERS
Bev Ridyard - Trustee
Bev became a governor in 2013, starting as a link governor with over eighteen years expertise in business, sales and marketing through roles at Lloyds Banking Group, Bupa and Manchester Airport Group and most recently as Sales and Marketing Director at Classroom Secrets.
In September 2017, she became a Trustee of Prospere Learning Trust and is Chair of the Local Governing Body of Piper Hill High School. She enjoys the combination of challenge and support and feels that her authenticity stands her in a good position to fulfil these roles. She believes that she brings a different dimension to the committees through her skills and experiences as her education ‘lens’ is so different to others. Bev is a huge believer in self-development and continually looking to raise her own standards as a Trustee and Governor as well as to share best practice across the Trust.
TRAINING TO TEACH
This year we have welcomed over 30 new This Autumn pop up vaccination clinics will trainees on the MTSA and School Direct Programmes. be opening. Pfizer booster jabs are available if you are aged 50+ with ID/Proof ‘The team are so positive, knowledgeable and of second vaccination date (must be at understanding and no question is ever stupid. least six months or 180 days after your I have really enjoyed the sessions so far and second dose). Please follow the link to see pop up centre locations: “laughter has lubricated a lot of my learning!” https://secure.manchester.gov.uk/ (student feedback) info/500362/covid-19/8079/covid-19_vacIf you are interested in applying for September 2022, the new application window is cination_programme/5 now open. https://prospere.org.uk/teaching-school/train-to-teach