Next Practice in System Leadership - Bedford

Leadership and governance arrangements for a 0–19 full-service, inclusive, extended school which embraces other than school provision

Queens Park Alliance, Bedford

A children's centre, lower school and upper school on the same broad campus are seeking to create a 0-19 full-service, extended and inclusive school in an urban, multi-cultural environment. A newly created and professionally facilitated Governance Group has been established across the existing three-tier system and children's centre, to offer strategic leadership for newly introduced aspects of all-through education. One such innovation is the partnership's initiative to provide for in excess of one hundred previously home-educated pupils a flexible and personalised provision.

The intention is for the full-service 'school' to have a radically new leadership and governance structure, which will be developed with the existing governing bodies, and built on evidence from the pioneering work currently being undertaken. The strategy for Queens Park's work has been accelerated by use of a facilitated seminar with To Be, and by the use of Delta 6.

View the presentation that Bedford shared at the Community of Interest event at NCSL on Monday 17 September (available for download below in both PDF and PowerPoint formats).

Bedford - 17.09.07 (356 KB)

Bedford - 17.09.07 (444 KB)