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The City of Cambridge Educational Foundation

Maintaining values, improving community cohesion and raising standards across a community of schools

This is a shared trust of three schools in SW Cambridge which has been evolving since 2003.

The lead school became a Foundation school with a Trust in 2003.  It formed a federation with a nearby high school in September 2005 which joined the Trust in September 2007. A third school joined in September 2008.  The trust and the federation were formed initially to use the expertise and excellence of the lead school to raise standards and to restore parental confidence in the partner high school, to establish post 16 provision, and, to enter the competition for the new secondary school in Trumpington.
Schools:

• Parkside Community College
• Coleridge Community College
• Ridgefield Primary School

Partners are  INDIVIDUALS from the following organisations:

• Cambridge County Council
• Cambridge City Council
• Cambridge Regional College
• The primary school cluster
• Carter Jonas Property Consultants
• Andrew Webber Tax Consultants and
• Mitchell Management Training.

The partners have been instrumental in helping the trust/federation achieve its goals with the trust providing the strategic direction for the federation, leaving the Governing Body to manage delivery eg Carter Jonas’ expertise as property consultants facilitated the acquisition of the new Eden Centre building as a new 6th Form base; the City and County councils played a vital role in steering the Trust through the planning process with trustees as community advocates.

Examples of trust/federation impact include:

• New building provision for 6th form (leased by the Trust)
• Success in the competition for the new secondary school
• Rising standards in all 3 schools eg Coleridge CC now 10% higher than National Challenge benchmark and projected to rise by the same % again this year. Recent Ofsted grades have improved too
• CPD is planned and delivered across the federation eg Parkside English staff gained greatly form shared work on developing Functional Skills for all
• Improved rigour in the Ridgefield Governing Body has been aided by the 3 new Trust appointed governors
• The two communities are moving closer as the schools are increasingly integrated and successful eg a large number of parents choose the federation high schools as choices 1 and 2
• A new Health Studies Campus established on the Addenbrookes Hospital site
• School holiday lettings (managed by the Trust) raise significant sums for improving school facilities eg new library (£75,000-£100,000 last year). 

Plans for the future include the development of the new 6th form, all through education, vocational & applied learning, international models of school organisation and focusing on the issues associated with promoting and developing the new school.

“The changes have brought about a sense of professionalism for all staff and students – this is at the core of all the improvements we have seen”

John Jones, Headteacher, Coleridge CC