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Deptford Green Sixth Form Students MAYOR AND CABINET Report Title Proposal to open a 6th Form at Deptford Green School from September 2012 Key Decision Yes Item No. 18 Ward All Contributors Executive Director of Children and Young People Executive Director for Resources Head of Law Class Part 1 Date: 13 July 2011 Reason for urgency This matter has not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan. However the decision must be taken by a date that makes it impractical to defer it until future Forward Planning and Mayor and Cabinet sessions. This report is part of the process for ‘Decision Making’ in relation to ‘expanding a maintained school by adding a sixth form’. Deptford Green School has completed the various procedures required under the School Organisation Regulations 2007 which include ‘consultation’, ‘publication’, ‘representation’, ‘decision’ and ‘implementation’ of a sixth form for September 2012. Deptford Green School published its notice on 25th May 2011 and therefore the proposal is at the ‘representation’ period (objections or expressions of interest of support to the Local Authority from interested parties) ended on 25 th June 2011 . This allows a final opportunity for the Local Authority to take into account any matters relating to the proposal. It is the Local Authority’s responsibility to make the ‘decision’ to add a sixth form to Deptford Green School for September 2012. Therefore there is a need to make this decision as the Mayor is not due to meet again until September and any decision has to be made within two months of the end of ‘representation’. The reason for lateness is because of the need to incorporate within the report an analysis of the latest available post-16 student level data. Where a Report is received less than 5 clear days before the date of the meeting at which the matter is being considered, then under the Local Government Act 1972 Section 100(b)(4) the Chair of the Committee can take the matter as a matter of urgency if he is satisfied that there are special circumstances requiring it to be treated as a matter of urgency. These special circumstances have to be specified in the minutes of the meeting. 1. Summary 1.1 This report describes the Deptford Green statutory proposal to open a sixth form from September 2012, and recommends that the Mayor agree to the proposal. It details the processes followed in the consultation, and the responses of the Local Authority and other respondents to the proposal. The report goes on to set out the factors for the Mayor as ‘decision maker’ to 498 consider in relation to Deptford Green setting up a sixth form, with commentary on these, and the financial and legal implications. 2. Purpose 2.1 The purpose of this report is to consider the proposal to expand Deptford Green Secondary School by adding a 6 th Form from September 2012. 3. Recommendations 3.1 That the Mayor notes that there are no responses to the statutory notice published by the Governing Body of Deptford Green School on 25 th May 2011. 3.2 That the Mayor agrees to the proposal to expand Deptford Green School by adding a sixth form from September 2012. 4. Policy Context 4.1 The report is consistent with the Council’s policy framework. It supports the delivery of the Sustainable Community Strategy priority Ambitious and Achieving – where people are inspired and supported to achieve their potential and the Council priority to improve young people’s achievement and involvement. 4.2 In particular, the report supports the delivery of Lewisham’s Children & Young People’s Plan (CYPP), which sets out the Council’s vision for improving outcomes for all children and young people by improving their achievement and involvement, inspiring and supporting them to fulfil their potential, developing community leadership, and providing facilities and activities to produce active, healthy citizens, and in so doing reduce the achievement gap between our most disadvantaged pupils and their peers. 4.3 The Statutory Guidance Funding Arrangements for 16–19 Education and Training sets out the duties of the Local Authority’s to act as champion of young people's learning by identifying quality issues and gaps in provision for persons in our area who are over compulsory school age but under 19. 5. Background 5.1 Deptford Green is a diverse secondary community school on two sites in Deptford with a published admissions limit of 1100. Currently it has 935 students. Numbers in Years 7 and 8 are significantly under capacity. 5.2 In September 2012 the school is scheduled to move into its brand new, state of the art building on one of the two sites. At the same time its capacity will increase to 1300 pupils aged 11-16. 5.3 Deptford Green was formerly a member of a 5 school “soft” federation. Deptford Green, Addey and Stanhope, Crofton (now Prendergast Ladywell Fields College), and Catford High (now Conisborough College), as 11-16 institutions 499 fed into Crossways Academy (now Crossways 6 th Form) at 16-19. With the change in status of Crofton, the partnership was reduced to four members. 5.4 During 2010-11 Deptford Green School, Addey and Stanhope School and Crossways Sixth Form consulted on forming a trust together with a “hard” federation – The Goldsmiths Education Partnership. Because of the geographical focus of the proposed trust in Deptford/New Cross, Catford High School (now Conisborough College) left the soft federation. Following consultation the decision was made by Goldsmiths not to proceed further with the proposal. 5.5 Due to the Goldsmiths proposal not proceeding, during 2010-11 Deptford Green School and Addey and Stanhope School considered a collaborative sixth form offer to help meet the progression needs of their own KS4 students and also to increase the appeal to parents applying to secondary schools. At this stage both schools believed that this would be an opportunity for a broader curriculum offer, working through partnership but remaining autonomous, for Addey and Stanhope and Deptford Green sixth form students. Subsequently Addey and Stanhope decided not to consult to open a sixth form before the completion of the ‘BSF’ extension in September 2012. 6. The Deptford Green School statutory proposal 6.1 Deptford Green School submitted its statutory proposal to add a sixth form on 1st February 2011. The statutory proposal and consultation letter are attached as Appendices 1 and 2. The proposal did not include Addey and Stanhope school as a partner as it was still at the early stages of considering a sixth form. Addey and Stanhope School hopes to start its own consultation process after September 2011 with the view to opening a sixth form within the next two years, and is keen to pursue a collaborative approach. The post-16 population 6.2 The planned capacity of the new 11-16 school, which opens in September 2012, is 1300. Deptford Green proposes to add to this number a sixth form capacity of 200 students (100 year 12 students from 2012, and 100 Year 13 from 2013), which will increase the total capacity of the school to 1500 by September 2013. 6.3 Research carried out by Deptford Green indicates that the sixth form cohort would be drawn mainly from Deptford Green students and is already a very popular option for current year 10 students and parents. The sixth form would aim to enable internal progression as well as attract a comprehensive cohort of learners from the surrounding community, including those of high ability. 6.4 Deptford Green states that many students come from disadvantaged backgrounds and that the school provides much of the stability and security in their lives. They say that many of them do not feel ready to leave the school at 16 and the “international” new sixth form aims to increase the participation of young people post-16 (towards meeting the Raising Participation Age to 18 by 2015) and reduce the number of Lewisham young people who become NEET. 500 6.5 Currently the top five post-16 destination institutions for Deptford Green are Christ the King R.C. College, Lewisham College, Crossways Sixth Form, Sydenham and Forest Hill (SFH6), and Bromley College of Further and Higher Education, and the learners who normally progress to these institutions would be a target for the sixth form recruitment. Accommodation 6.6 The proposal describes how the sixth form would be incorporated into the rest of the school within the new school building when it opens in September 2012 with minimal additional costs as a result of careful timetable planning. The teaching hours for sixth formers would be different to the rest of the school, starting later in the morning and finishing later in the day, and thus ensuring that there are enough teaching rooms and specialist subject rooms for the sixth form curriculum. One of the classrooms in the new school would also be used as a dedicated sixth form student centre. This approach would also ensure that there is greater use of the new buildings and Deptford Green proposes extending this further offering facilities for community use and adult education programmes in the evenings and at weekends. Standards 6.7 The proposal describes how Deptford Green believes that its 6th form would be a very attractive option for students in the local community, and would raise standards and increase participation. The proposal aims for high standards in the sixth form, and intends that it will be a positive influence on standards across the school by promoting a stronger culture of aspiration and providing a tangible goal for learners at Key Stage 4.
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