PAIWAND
This case study describes how a large Afghan supplementary school pro-actively searches out partnership with the mainstream sector to increase impact on learning, behaviour, parental commitment and social cohesion.
Leeds Community Mandarin Chinese School
This case study describes how a local Chinese community, an education authority and a local maintained school have formed a successful partnership to develop a complementary school and increase provision of language and cultural opportunities for Chinese children and students.
Russian Saturday School
The case study describes a Russian supplementary school working in partnership with a language college. The partnership was facilitated by the City Council when a demand for Russian and English lessons was identified due to an increase in the Russian population in the area. The partnership takes the form of mentoring, sharing exam information and referring pupils to the Russian school. Student behaviour has improved and the partnership has helped contribute to community cohesion.
Moseley School - A Language College
This case study describes collaboration between a maintained school and a mosque centred on improving teaching methods, providing a modern teaching environment, booster classes and facilitating community language GCSE exams.
School of Cultural and Linguistic Studies
This case study describes an Arabic complementary school in Leicester, how they went about finding premises for their school and the impact the collaborative work with a maintained school has had on pupils.
The Tamil Academy of Language and Arts
This case study describes how a local Tamil group have established a successful partnership with several mainstream schools via a mutual interest in language and the arts.
James Watt Primary School
This case study describes how parent power helped push for community language teaching in the maintained school and how a maintained school can help facilitate the running of community language classes by providing resources and support.
Malaysian School of Manchester
The Malaysian complementary school collaborates with a maintained school to use their premises. The maintained school administers all the costs to sit the IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) Malay exams. The Assistant Head of the maintained school was a member of the complementary school steering committee in the early stages of the collaborative work. The partnership has been facilitated by the Diversity and Inclusion team (Children’s services) at Manchester City Council, who are also part of the Malaysian school’s steering committee. The complementary school is a recognised exam centre for Malay.
Plashet School
Plashet School provides community languages teaching within the curriculum and as twilight sessions out of school hours. They collaborate with the local Tamil community who use their premises and they also support other maintained schools in the area teaching community languages. The success of the community languages classes has raised the reputation of the school, increased the numbers of visitors and helped raise the self esteem of students.
Smithy Street Primary School
In this case study, Smithy Street School seeks to extend its partnership with the local community through the teaching of Bengali which is offered its pupils within the curriculum. They also host Bengali after-school classes for all local children.
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