jo crabtree ast for primary re in lancashire j.crabtree@brunshaw.lancs.sch.uk

Jo Crabtree

AST for primary RE in Lancashire

j.crabtree@brunshaw.lancs.sch.uk

What are we doing today?

We will be finding out….

•Why do community cohesion?

•What will Ofsted look for?

•What approaches work?

•Where to find links?

•How do I move my school on?

What do Ofsted look for?

1. What do you know about the context of your school in respect of community cohesion?

2. Have you planned and taken an appropriate set of actions to promote community cohesion?

3. What impact are you having?

Evidence for Ofsted

Attainment Target 2 results

Staff Meetings

• Took an audit of where we were.

• Shared ideas

• Went away and acted on it

• Evaluated the impact

Some ideasA rural church school came to visit (all 36 of them! They watched an assembly then contributed by performing their own assembly for the school about being a pupil at a Catholic school.

Reception children have made links with a local school who have a very different ethnic make up. At Christmas the children came to watch the play and party with the Reception children. At Eid, Brunshaw children went to an Eid party.

Year 2 children hosted a gardening day for a local school where they demonstrated planting vegetables which they were growing for a soup recipe they had written which a local shop was going to make and sell at dinnertimes.

Brunshaw School Council are twinned with a school in inner city London. They share ideas, emails and photos frequently. Each School Council made a DVD of their school, showing the school building and surrounding area. Any letters are put on the School Council noticeboard for the whole school to read.

Brunshaw School Council are twinned with a school in inner city London. They share ideas, emails and photos frequently. Each School Council made a DVD of their school, showing the school building and surrounding area. Any letters are put on the School Council noticeboard for the whole school to read.

Reception children have made links with a local school who have a very different ethnic make up. At Christmas the children came to watch the play and party with the Reception children. At Eid, Brunshaw children went to an Eid party.

What next?

Take as many post its as you want and swap phone numbers and email addresses.