Co-operative Trusts

The Co-operative Schools Network was launched at a special conference in Manchester on the 5 November 2009.

The conference was attended by over 100 delegates who voted on a resolution to established the Network.

The vote followed a series of presentations culminating in a message from The Rt. Hon Ed Balls, MP Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.

The report of the conference can be viewed here. 

To watch key extracts from the presentations click on the links below:

• The Rt. Hon Ed Balls, MP Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
  • Statement
• Moira Lees, Group Secretary, The Co-operative Group
  • Clip 1;
    
• Mervyn Wilson, Chief Executive and Principal, The Co-operative College
  • Co-operative schools are not a new idea;
  • Working together with a set of values;
  • The co-operative alternative;
  • Being part of the co-operative family. What’s in it for us?;
  • Becoming part of the global co-operative family;
  • The co-operative schools family status so far of trust schools:
  • The ASDAN partnership;
  • Support for the co-operative approach for to schooling;
  • The next step for the new co-operative network;
  • The first of the new chain of schools envisioned in the white paper, a co-operative chain.

• Steve Munby, Chief Executive, National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Service
  • Outward facing leadership needed today and the co-operative approach;
  • Successful schools having a passion for those they work with;
  • Research shows people working in schools and having success have a passion for working in them;
  • Schools helping each other both improve;
  • The white paper and collaboration between schools;
  • Co-operative Trusts playing a key role in the new model of training school leaders;
  • Leaders as role models;
  • The benefits of having trust in leadership;
  • The Co-operative Netwrok will be powerful.

• Cassie Ellins, Principal, Upper Shirley High School, Southampton
  • Opportunities of a multi-school trust;
  • The Co-operative Schools Network;
    
  • Developing local networks;
    
  • A group of schools as a lobbying force;

• Steve Baker, Headteacher of Lipson Community Colleges, Plymouth
  • Co-operative learning and the impact on learing;
  • Describing the College's move from 'student voice' to the 'co-operation' of students;

• John Chowcat – Chief Executive, Association of Professionals in Education and Children’s Trust

• • Benefits of a co-operatiive model;
    
  • Benefits of co-operative model and people working with children;
    
  • Benefits of co-operative model and his membership;
    
  • Workforce involvement in service delivery;

• Karen Mort – Foundation & Aided Schools National Association

• • The change to learning by co-operating and teh internet;
    
  • Pooling of resources and energy of the co-operative schools network;
    
  • Serving the needs of stakeholders;
    
  • Outstanding leadership;
    
  • Co-operation as a legacy of education;

• Co-operative Schools Network Launch
  • Registering of the Co-operative Schools Network;
    
  • The network owned and controlled by the schools;
    
  • Being inclusive - not just co-oeprative trusts;
    
  • Role of the interim board of the Co-operative Schools Network;
    
  • The vote to establish the Network;