Haywood Academy Sixth Form proposal Old Town Hall, Burslem

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Ambitious plan to drive town’s regeneration

AYWOOD Academy has It will mean students from Hsubmitted an ambitious Haywood Academy and a bid to breathe new life into number of young people from Burslem’s historic town hall other schools, will be able to by developing a sixth form study for A-levels closer to centre for hundreds of home, and will no longer have students at the heart of to travel across the City to Stoke-on-Trent’s Mother college. Town. The plans have the One of the UK’s most overwhelming support of improved schools, Haywood Haywood Academy students, the Academy is cementing its place local authority, local businesses in its community through an and the Burslem community. exciting partnership with leading Academy Headteacher Carl tableware manufacturer Steelite Ward said: “The old town International, the support of hall has a special Stoke-on-Trent City Council and place in the hearts of the Princes Trust. Burslem people. The £1.9m development Bringing it back to life would see 400 students move with a thriving sixth into the beautiful old building – form community would famous for the golden angel be a massive boost to the which stands on top of its clock town’s regeneration. tower. “This initiative would make It would see the demolition of a major contribution to the single storey Ceramica reversing Burslem’s decline extension outside the old town and give the town a new hall. A two-storey classroom sense of purpose. block will be built on the site to “Hundreds of extra accommodate more students. people in the town every But sciences will be taught in day would bring a existing labs at the school’s welcome boost to the High Lane campus – five town’s traders and would minutes away from the town undoubtedly bring in centre. additional investment.”

WHAT WILL THE SIXTH FORM CENTRE ACHIEVE?

It will: X Drive up standards, choice and and progress into higher education, diversity in the north of Stoke-on-Trent. training and employment. X Meet the demand for high quality post-16 education in the north of X Make it easier for parents and X Extend choice and raise aspirations. Stoke-on-Trent. students to plan a learning pathway with X Build on the school’s academy status, a simple choice to learn locally at a high X Extend the Academy’s achievements promoting a challenging, supportive and achieving school and sixth form. into 16-19 education and build on its continuous curriculum which ethos of care and guidance to support X Improve achievement across a broad encourages progress and academic students as they learn for life. curriculum to enable accademic success excellence.

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BY HAYWOOD ACADEMY HEAD TEACHER CARL WARD Top quality Academy HAYWOOD Academy has already created a successful school community built on co-operation and learning. We’re one of journey can continue the most improved schools in the UK, and OFSTED has rated us “Good with Exemplary Features”. That’s an to further education achievement of which we can all be proud. At the moment, students who join our community at age 11 leave with sincere regret at 16 and face a world of difficult choices and uncertainty. Our aim is to give them the continuity they deserve, in a sixth form centre which follows and builds on our successful ethos. We are very conscious that at 16 our students’ journey is not finished. Introducing a sixth form here will give our students continuity in their learning in an environment where they are known and which encourages the highest standards. At present our students move on to other further education organisations, but the vast majority have indicated they would, if given the choice, wish to stay on at Haywood Academy instead of transferring to another sixth form provider. We feel we owe it to our students to give them that continuity. A massive added bonus would be the Haywood Academy Head contribution our sixth form would make to Teacher Carl Ward, right, the regeneration of Burslem. with Steelite Chief It’s no secret the Mother Town has seen Executive Kevin Oakes. better days. We’re delighted to have an opportunity to make a difference, and Download our free app to your smartphone or we’re delighted with the response we’ve tablet and bring Haywood Academy received from local businesses and the publications to life using the power of a new technology called Augmented Reality (AR). community. To access bonus content in this issue follow Over the page you’ll see some detail Introducing a sixth these instructions: about the plans and how we would deliver “” services from the old town hall. form here will give Then you can read just a few responses our students from our partners and the community. I’d like to thank everyone who has continuity in their supported us so far, especially important learning in an partners like Steelite International, the Princes Charities and Stoke-on-Trent City environment • Download the Haywood AR app from the App Council, who share our vision and whose Store (Apple) or Google Play (Android). support is invaluable. where they are • Open the app and point your device at the The formal bid has now been submitted known and which photos where you see the AR content icon to the Government and we are waiting, pictured above – and wait for the surprise. first for approval to open a sixth form and encourages the • Double tap for a full-screen. then for the funds we need to develop Augmented Reality services by premises in the old town hall. highest standards.

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New subjects can lead to exciting futures Industry link with HE new sixth form centre would opportunities in higher education. right academic profile. Toffer an extensive range of There will also be appropriate Learning will be accommodated across school is academic subjects at A-level. vocational elements to learning at the the whole town hall building, with Subjects like maths, English, modern centre, closely linked to progress routes classrooms and workspaces on all floors. languages, geography and history would and exciting futures, including subjects There will be an IT-based learning important be taught in new classrooms at the old like business studies, ICT and media support centre and library, which can also town hall, while science students would studies... all of these are looked upon be used by the local community, and BY KEVIN OAKES , study in labs at the main academy favourably as fourth subjects by even the break out zones for informal study and CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF campus, five minutes away. most rigorous universities. relaxing. ACADEMY SPONSOR We’re excited to announce new subjects Each year group will number The single storey annexe built for the STEELITE INTERNATIONAL in the academy, including psychology and approximately 160 students from Ceramica development will be history of art, to broaden student Haywood Academy, and an additional 40 demolished and replaced with a two AS a world leading achievement and open up new students from other schools who fit the storey classroom and office block. manufacturer of tableware in the Potteries, Steelite International is committed to putting something back by supporting local initiatives which have a positive impact on our communities. This particular project has attracted our attention from the very beginning. We have a long association with Haywood High School – now Haywood Academy – and we are absolutely delighted to be a part of the school’s future by sponsoring this project. From a company and industry perspective, as a world leader we need young people coming into the organisation with the right skills, knowledge and the right aptitude. Anything we can do to support local education and to foster good relationships between education and industry is vitally important. “”New subjects in the Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramics industry is undergoing a academy, include renaissance and we must psychology and build for the future. A thriving Burslem town centre is vitally history of art, to important to Steelite International - we’re fiercely broaden student proud of the town’s famous achievement and heritage. By locating a sixth form open up new centre in the old town hall we opportunities in will help increase footfall in the town and, I am certain, higher education boost its economy.

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THE HISTORIAN Historic hall is an inspiration

URSLEM historian Fred Hughes has welcomed Bthe proposal to bring Burslem’s historic old town hall back into use. The building, opened with a grand banquet in 1863, was a symbol of prosperity, community, civic pride and local strength. The golden winged figure of Victory atop the hall was described by locals as The Angel after being described so by world famous novelist Arnold Bennett. Another famous son of the town, rock megastar Robbie Williams, took the golden statue as one of the inspirations for his global hit Angels. Fred, who sits on the Haywood Academy Board of Governors, said: “The old town hall is a symbol of the town’s prosperity and pride, substance, community and the strength of commerce and retail. “What the new use for the building would do is harmonise all these attributes that have left the town and reintroduce all those things from Burslem’s past into The old town hall is a symbol of a modern environment which is at the heart of the town’s “” future. the town’s prosperity and pride, “It’s going to be such an important development in that substance, community and the it will attract new investors from a number of fields, including creative industries, retail and support strength of commerce and retail. services... a real boost for the whole community.” THE TRADER Business backs college proposal

FAMILY business Millers in additional investment. Butchers, based in Queen’s He said: “There’s never Street a short walk from the been a greater need for a old town hall, says the new boost to Burslem. We need sixth form centre would more people and more provide a welcome boost reasons for people to visit. for trade. “Just having the sixth Father and son Fred form centre would create and Jason Miller lots more footfall which remember the heady would benefit local days, when thousands of businesses. potbank workers would “But I also think it would throng into the town. lead to more investment, Fred, pictured, said an maybe filling some of our influx of students and staff empty shops, and that There’s never been a greater need for a to the old town hall would would attract even more “” be great news for local shoppers and visitors to the boost to Burslem. We need more people businesses, and would lever town.” and more reasons for people to visit. ...an exciting future for Burslem

THE SCHOOL GOVERNOR Sixth form can’t come soon enough

DAVE Johnson, who chairs the Board of “This sixth form centre would have a Governors at Haywood Academy, said massive impact on the town’s future. there was already a buzz around the “Moreover it gives the opportunity for school about the possibility of opening its students to have Haywood Academy as own sixth form centre. part of their education, development and He said students moving on this year progress from primary age to sixth form.” were disappointed they would not have He added that feedback from students the opportunity to stay on and learn in on plans to set up a sixth form was really Burslem. positive. Dave said: “The proposals extend the Dave explained: “I spoke to the head community focus of the school as it is boy and head girl who said they were now. It’s also been carefully drawn up to disappointed they wouldn’t be able to play an important role in the regeneration take advantage of the school’s own sixth of Burslem and make the school an form. As far as the students are integral part of that package. concerned it can’t come soon enough.”

THE STUDENTS Year 11s ‘gutted’ they will miss out

EAR 11 students Bushra Jamilah agreed: “We both live YKaibri and Jamilah Ali within a few minutes of the plan to study for their school so we’d be able to walk A-levels in Stoke, Newcastle down to the sixth form centre in or Trent Vale... but both Burslem. As it is we’ll have to friends would prefer to learn catch the bus across the city or in Burslem. even to Newcastle.” Unfortunately the new sixth Both admitted to being “a bit form centre won’t be open until gutted” that they might miss out they are half way through their on studying at Haywood A-level studies, so both face new Academy’s own sixth form by environments and two or three just a year, but they agreed it’s a bus journeys each way when good proposal for the school they make the move to college. and the town. “We’re used to learning at Bushra, who has ambitions to Haywood Academy,” said study medicine or law at Bushra. “We know how the university, said: “It would be place works and we know the great to carry on learning closer We know how the place works people. If we were staying on at to home. We’ve had a good start “” the school’s own sixth form it at Haywood and it would have and we know the people. If we would be so much easier to been great to continue learning were staying on at the school’s adjust.” in that environment.” own sixth form it would be so Jamilah Ali, left, much easier to adjust. and Bushra Kaibri.

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BY STOKE-ON-TRENT CITY COUNCIL LEADER MOHAMMED PERVEZ

TOKE-ON-TRENT City wonderful Grade II* listed building. SCouncil is pleased to The development would not only support Haywood Academy’s be a major boost for education in bid to develop a vibrant sixth the north of the city, continuing form centre for hundreds of the good work and achievement of students in Burslem’s old town Haywood Academy, but would also hall. bring massive benefits in terms of As well as providing leading footfall and trade for Burslem edge educational activity to businesses. support the school’s existing That’s got to be good news for provision, it provides a significant the town. regeneration opportunity to the I am excited by this initiative and town, and makes use of the hopeful that such a great cultural Councillor historic town hall building. landmark can be used for the Pervez with I am happy to offer the council’s positive use of the Burslem head teacher support for this exciting proposal community as was once originally Carl Ward. that will breathe new life into a intended.

Leaving no stone unturned to find support for town hall bid

BY STOKE-ON-TRENT NORTH MP JOAN WALLEY

HIS is a once in a lifetime locally educated, feeling part of Topportunity to breathe new their town’s regeneration and life into one of Burslem’s most aspirations for the future. iconic buildings and to give the The centre will see exciting entire town a boost. collaborations with existing schools By bringing the old town hall and the Stoke-on-Trent College back into use as a vibrant sixth centre in the town. It will mesh with form centre we will not only be the local community, bring trade to encouraging young people to the town and create a real buzz develop their skills, we will also be around Burslem. bringing young people back into That’s why I’m leaving no stone Burslem, supporting local unturned, seeking support from businesses and consolidating the ministers, businesses and town as a centre of innovation and education experts to make sure this creativity. scheme goes ahead and provides The clear need for a sixth form an exciting future, not just for the centre in the town has long been students who study in the centre identified. It will see young people but also for the town itself.

BUILDING ON ACHIEVEMENTS...... an exciting future for Burslem