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Voting opens to find Liverpool’s young X factor artists


A public vote to find Merseyside’s best young artists opens on Monday 3rd April. More than 800 pupils entered this year’s Dot-Art Schools competition and are hoping for your votes to see their artwork on display in a free public exhibition at St George’s Hall later this spring. The online inter-school art contest, which is now in its fifth year, gives both


Year 5 and Year 9 pupils across the Liverpool city region the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents and have their work displayed in the exhibition. More than 800 pieces of art from over 50 primary and secondary schools across Merseyside were entered in to this year’s competition. The judges have narrowed it down to their top three entries from each school ready for the public vote. The artwork with the most votes from each participating school will form part of the two-week exhibition, which opens in June. The overall winners will be


chosen by special guest judge Susan M Coles, past president of the National Society for Education in Art & Design (NSEAD) and announced at a prize-giving ceremony. Following the exhibition at St


George’s Hall, prints of the artworks will also be displayed at one of Merseyrail’s city centre train stations in July. Voting will close at midnight on Friday 5th May 2017.


uhttp://liverpool.schools.dot-art.com/vote


Public consultation opens on proposed merger between Chichester College and Central Sussex College


A consultation on the merger between Chichester College and Central Sussex College launched on 23rd March. The consultation, which runs until the 24 April 2017, sets out the


planned vision for a new College Group to encompass Chichester College and Central Sussex College. It will enable members of the public and stakeholders to review the proposal and consider the opportunity for enhanced training provision across Sussex. The proposed college group’s extensive portfolio would include


Chichester College, Brinsbury (land-based campus), Central Sussex College (Crawley), Horsham Training Centre, First Steps Childcare Group, Anglia Examinations and International Operations. The proposal to merge came about after a Government Area-Based


Review (ABR) which concluded in November last year. This concluded that Central Sussex College was not sustainable in the long term as a stand-alone College due to its high level of commercial loan debt inherited from the decision taken in 2008 to take out a mortgage against its Haywards Heath campus. Chichester and Central Sussex Colleges agreed to explore a merger which will secure a financial settlement from Government of Central Sussex’s debt alongside the sale of the Haywards Heath campus. This proposed merger will secure the future of a college in Crawley at a time when further education provision is much needed to meet the local skills need. The proposal has the support of the Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership and West Sussex County Council.


uwww.chichester-centralsussexmerger.co.uk


New Head of Academy appointed at Bournville School in Birmingham


A teacher who helped a struggling school to become one of the most improved in the country is to become Head of Academy at a Birmingham school. Joanne Cottle will join Bournville School on


April 24th and she has big ambitions for its staff and pupils alike. Mrs Cottle has spent the last 10 years working


in senior leadership positions at Trinity High School in Redditch. She was part of the team which took the Worcestershire school from ‘National Challenge’ in 2009 to becoming ‘Most Improved Secondary School in England’ in 2013. She was also part of the leadership team which


helped Trinity High School to secure ‘Good’ Ofsted ratings in both 2010 and 2014. An ‘all-through’ school, Bournville School is run


by Fairfax Multi-Academy Trust and educates pupils aged four to 16.


Mrs Cottle said: “I am delighted to have been


appointed Head of Academy at Bournville School. “I am passionate in my commitment to


providing a strong and stable leadership and ensuring the Trust’s values of high expectations and ambition for all are embedded within the school. “I will do everything in my power to support


the school on its continued journey to securing positive outcomes for all learners, ensuring they have access to a broad and balanced curriculum delivered in an engaging and stimulating manner by experienced subject specialists. “I also want to preserve and celebrate the


school’s distinct ethos, history and tradition, of which it is justly proud.”


uwww.bournvilleschool.org 4 www.education-today.co.uk April 2017


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