Cover story
event for Year 11 and 13 students feeling exam pressures. This involved a carousel of activities, from bookbinding to relaxation techniques and life-mapping, at a wellbeing centre run by The Bay Trust in St Margaret’s Bay. Meanwhile, local grant provider
The Crown Foundation (via Kent Community Foundation) and an anonymous donor each gave £5,000 to a collaborative art project, Rearranging Deckchairs, culminating in an exhibition of student work at
Turner Contemporary in Margate. On the strength of this track
record, EKST has been awarded a DfE grant of £11,500 to run wellbeing and confidence-building workshops in each partner school over 15 months. These will offer support with oracy skills, personal statements, self-care sessions, mind- mapping tool-kits and study skills. What makes this partnership work
is its clear organisational structure and focus on making things happen. The headteachers meet as a steering
group, and the programme is delivered by a management group of teacher representatives. There are teacher cluster groups for every major curriculum subject, and further groups for finance, pastoral, SEN, and exam staff. This means EKST can combine its expertise and experience to deliver CPD, rather than send staff to courses in London. The university provides undergraduate outreach ambassadors to help facilitate events, and a Student Voice group organises fundraising events for charity.
business groups, and Ardingly sponsored two of our students to join the team of drivers and passengers in Australia.’ The project is based at
Ardingly’s outdoor workshop and uses 3D printing facilities at Ifield. ‘The ICC team drive their students over every Saturday – and we work together,’ says Andrew Spiers. ‘It is brilliant – we have around 30 boys and girls, from Year 9 through to sixth form, pulling apart an old solar car and using that to build new vehicles. ‘We’ve also invited around 20
representatives from industry to come in and give talks,’ The next goal for the students, he says, is to get a flatpack version of the car out to Kenya, with the idea that it doubles as a solar energy generator to provide an off-grid power supply.’
FundEd SUMMER 2020 15
GRAPHICS:
TREETYISTOCKPHOTO.COM
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60
