School Seeks Trust Status
09 November 2010 by Hamst
Melior Community College on Chandos Road is to seek to become a Trust School. The was school formed from the merger of South Leys Business and Enterprise College and Thomas Sumpter School - A Specialist College in English and Media Arts. Intitially the school operated on two sites, the North Site on Westcliff and South Site on Riddings. The South Site closed in July 2010 with all pulpils now at the North Site. A new school is currently being built on the North Site playing fields as part of the Building Schools for the Future programe and is due to open in the Summer of 2011.
Melior School Logo
The school feels becoming a Trust School will benefit their students and potential partners giving clear mutual advantages in exploring new ways of working outside the field of education to help bring enhanced diversity to the students.
A trust school is a state-funded foundation school supported by a charitable trust made up of the school and partners working together for the benefit of the school. Any maintained school can become a trust school � primary, secondary or special schools. In legal terms, it is a Foundation School that is supported by a charitable trust. In order to become a Trust School, Melior must first become a Foundation School.
A Foundation School is a State funded school which continues to be run by a Governing Body and is still part of the local authority. It differs from other schools in that Governing Bodies employ its own staff and it�s responsible for its own student admissions. The land and buildings would be held within the Trust and managed by the school. There is no change to the way the school would be funded, but belonging to a Trust increases the opportunity for accessing additional finance. In order to enter a formal Trust Arrangement, it is a legal requirement that the school changes its status to a Foundation School first.
Melior New School Building Under Construction
Trust schools can work more formally with partners who make up the membership of the Trust, to create new ways of extending provisions for students by drawing on expertise and other resources. Partners are chosen who are able to assist in the meeting of objectives set by the Governors to help raise attainment levels. A Trust can have any number of partners and any number of schools involved. If more than one school is part of the Trust, the school continues to be manged by their own Governing Bodies, but the Trust works across the schools, helping to meet shared aims.
Partners can include:
� Businesses
� Universities
� Community groups
� Educational charities
� Higher education institutions
� Further education colleges
Any school wishing to become a Trust School must consult with parents of children in the school about the change of status and so open meeting will take place at the school on Thursday 9th December 2010 at 18:30hrs to discuss the proposals
Melior School Logo
The school feels becoming a Trust School will benefit their students and potential partners giving clear mutual advantages in exploring new ways of working outside the field of education to help bring enhanced diversity to the students.
A trust school is a state-funded foundation school supported by a charitable trust made up of the school and partners working together for the benefit of the school. Any maintained school can become a trust school � primary, secondary or special schools. In legal terms, it is a Foundation School that is supported by a charitable trust. In order to become a Trust School, Melior must first become a Foundation School.
A Foundation School is a State funded school which continues to be run by a Governing Body and is still part of the local authority. It differs from other schools in that Governing Bodies employ its own staff and it�s responsible for its own student admissions. The land and buildings would be held within the Trust and managed by the school. There is no change to the way the school would be funded, but belonging to a Trust increases the opportunity for accessing additional finance. In order to enter a formal Trust Arrangement, it is a legal requirement that the school changes its status to a Foundation School first.
Melior New School Building Under Construction
Trust schools can work more formally with partners who make up the membership of the Trust, to create new ways of extending provisions for students by drawing on expertise and other resources. Partners are chosen who are able to assist in the meeting of objectives set by the Governors to help raise attainment levels. A Trust can have any number of partners and any number of schools involved. If more than one school is part of the Trust, the school continues to be manged by their own Governing Bodies, but the Trust works across the schools, helping to meet shared aims.
Partners can include:
� Businesses
� Universities
� Community groups
� Educational charities
� Higher education institutions
� Further education colleges
Any school wishing to become a Trust School must consult with parents of children in the school about the change of status and so open meeting will take place at the school on Thursday 9th December 2010 at 18:30hrs to discuss the proposals
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