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Working together to improve procurement decisions
ST SWITHUN’S IN HAMPSHIRE TO BE COMPLETELY REBUILT
Plans to rebuild St Swithun’s Junior School in Hampshire have been approved by the planning authorities and work is due to begin at the end of the year. The new school will replace existing school buildings and will enable the school to increase its pupil numbers in response to an increased demand for places while also allowing
for smaller class sizes. The development will include specialist teaching rooms, a science laboratory, an art studio, a media/IT room and a new performing arts space and gym. “I am delighted,” says headmistress Pim Grimes. “The fact that the children have been involved in some of the plans for their new school adds to the excitement.”
More than 60 per cent of school leaders say they don’t have complete confi dence in the buying decisions made by their schools. The admission comes from school business managers, bursars, headteachers and other senior leaders responsible for procurement in response to
Incensu.co.uk’s fi rst national school procurement survey. Although almost 40 per cent of respondents said that they were “completely confi dent” in the procurement decisions made by their schools, just over 60 per cent were only “fairly confi dent” or “slightly concerned” about the buying of goods and services. The fi ndings reveal that the issue of
confi dence was underpinned by what respondents regard as key procurement challenges: lack of funding; keeping abreast of policies and legislation;
pfeg and NatWest’ BREAD OF HEAVEN
A group of chefs from the independent education division of international service providers Sodexo have been learning the art of boulangerie on an intensive three- day course at the world famous Ecole Lenôtre in Paris. The nine senior chefs – from schools such as Eton College, Licensed Victuallers School, Ascot and Abingdon School – learned
a range of bread-related skills and are the fi rst group to benefi t from a partnership between Sodexo and Ecoe Lenôtre which will see up to 40 chefs training in Paris every year. “Our chefs are already baking fresh bread each day,” says Tom Allen, executive development chef for Independents by Sodexo, “but after this training they will be on a completely diff erent level.”
Thanks to a new partnership with NatWest, fi nancial education charity pfeg’s (Personal Finance Education Group) free resource ‘Introducing Financial Mathematics – A Practical Guide for Key Stage 3 and 4’ has been brought up to date by mapping its contents to the new national curriculum and the NatWest MoneySense for Schools resource. The aim is to give teachers practical help in delivering the fi nancial education elements of the new mathematics curriculum, and to show how to extend and develop learning using MoneySense for Schools. Almost 100 teachers had pre-ordered the resource in the fi rst few days of its release on
pfeg.org. Tracey Bleakley, chief executive of pfeg, says: “We hope that this will make mathematics teachers’ lives much easier
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