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The Lyng Hall Trust

Lyng Hall is a single school trust based on the specialist secondary 11-18 school “Lyng Hall Specialist Sports College”.

The Headteacher and governing body chose this structure partly due to local circumstances. Following plans for an Academy to be opened quite near the school, there was a need for the school to “re-market itself”. The school opened as a trust 10th January 2008.
Partners: Henley College, Coventry University, Coventry Refugee Centre, Coventry City Council and Coventry Building Society.

The school was very keen to avoid partners with too narrow a focus.   Attention was turned to really identifying core issues for the community. Aspiration was seen as the key and this led to choosing a University.

In addition to the tangible benefits of establishing a route into higher education, the school also felt that the “halo” effect of being linked with a University would be a significant benefit. Including a Further Education Partner then made sense in terms of facilitating educational coherence for 14-19 and beyond. Coventry Building Society was chosen primarily as a “business partner”: a source of expertise for the school. The educational “spin offs” have proved to be an exciting bonus, including developmental work with school middle leaders. The involvement of the Refugee Centre is clearly contributing to this collective social conscience in addition to providing pragmatic assistance in securing successful integration for vulnerable community groups.

Examples of trust impact include:

• Financial awareness programmes with students and also with their parents. Coventry Building Society has been instrumental in leading this in collaboration with the local Citizen’s Advice Bureau.
• The Health and Life Sciences department at Coventry University have been engaged in research at the school. In return for allowing them to pursue work within Social Services and Psychology, the University has agreed to share their research findings with the school and also provide inputs to A-level courses.
• Henley College already provided extensive adult education and they have now entered into an agreement with the school to provide some of this within the school and some at the college by proactively targeting Lyng Hall parents. A positive spin-off has been the establishment of very well-received “parenting courses”.

Plans for the future include to systematically evaluate progress to date, seek further ways to engage all partners fully and begin the process of achieving coherence between the various strands of Trust activity in order that principles are truly embedded.

“We see the Trust as the means by which Lyng Hall will be at the centre of the community and not just a school in the community.” 
Headteacher: Paul Green