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.
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.
Iraqi Community School
The case study describes how the Arabic language classes provided by a complementary school can help improve GCSE results in the maintained school and how it benefits the students.
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.
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.
Lambeth Academy
This case study describes how the Lambeth Academy is establishing a consortium of complementary schools with the help of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Team’s outreach work. Via a series of meetings with both the complementary schools themselves, and also with the students who attend both complementary school and the Academy, they are well on the way to identifying what they need to best help support both language learning and the National Curriculum.
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.
Whitefield School
This case study describes how a Full Service Extended school is using its relationship with a complementary school to support the learning of Afghan students, improve attainment in core curriculum subjects, improve behaviour and attendance, and encourage greater involvement of parents.
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