Norwich School’s Collaborative and Outreach Work.
Collaborating with state schools, including working with academies and other partner organisations:
 City Academy Norwich – Head Master acts on the Governing Body. Norwich School is the Educational
Partner in this Academy. Joint play. Classics was offered as part of G&T;
 Open Academy Norwich – member of School’s SMT appointed to Board of Governors of Open
Academy;
 Senior staff as governors of Morley primary and West Earlham Junior School.
 Collaborating with 16+ primary and secondary schools in Norwich School’s Community Outreach
Scheme;
 Cathedral Choristers, including outreach scheme (largely run by NS Music department);
 Lead partner of Young Norfolk Arts Festival (60 schools, 24 venues, over 50 events, over 2000 pupils
involved);
 Set up Young Norfolk Sports Academy (sponsorship opportunities of young athletes);
 Set up Making Musicians (concerts around the city);
 Young Norfolk Grows (collaboration with RNAA), including involvement in careers conference.
Having a funding arrangement between an independent school and a separate, and possibly linked, grantmaking body:
Kind and unstinting support from:
 Worshipful Company of Dyers – providing bursarial support;
 The Ogden Trust – provide bursarial support for talented scientists to move from state schools into
Norwich School; they also support other schemes at the school see below;
 The Arkwright Trust - provide bursarial support for talented design technologists to move from state
schools into Norwich School and to support individuals at Norwich School;
 The Sutton Trust – provides top-up support for our university summer school;
 The SHINE Foundation – support our Serious - Fun on Saturday activity master-classes;
 The Royal Institution – support for maths master-classes (Primary and Secondary);
 Michael Badminton Young Musicians Trust – support for master-classes;
 Thomas Anguish Trust – support for bursaries;
 The Educational Foundation of Alderman John Norman – support for bursaries;
 NCC Great to Good – support for outreach schemes;
 The Charles Peel Charitable Trust – support for summer school.
Allowing pupils from local state schools to use its educational facilities (including sports facilities, such as
swimming pool, sports hall, astro and playing fields, design technology or arts and concert facilities):
 MCCF – cricket academy;
 Norwich City FITC (Football in the Community) sports festivals, using the Redmayne Complex, mostly
during the summer months;
 NCFC using Redmayne for their Development Programme.
 Norfolk University Summer School (started in 2002, approximately 120 Norfolk state school
pupils/year);
 Norwich School is an Open Examination Centre - home educated, mature, foreign and other students
use our facilities for iGCSE, GCSE, GCE and university entrance examinations (SAT, LNAT, BMAT, HAT
etc; over 200+ candidates/year);
 CCN using our examination set-up to deliver a range of examined language options;
 Young Norfolk Arts Festival (see previous);
 Carnegie Prize seminars;
 Annual Norwich Children’s Book Festival (attendance approximately 600+) and author events
throughout the year attended by an invited audience from Norfolk schools;
 Theatre Royal use of sports hall for production practices and run-throughs;
 Multiple sports clubs using our indoor facilities;
 Local cricket clubs use indoor cricket practice facilities;
 Institute of Physics – Physics Fest at Norwich School.
 Host for local schools for the StarDome and David Hall “One Man Shows”.
 Total Ensemble – L6 work with this group on a Wednesday in the School’s dance studio. Total
Ensemble are a group of students from City College who have learning and physical difficulties. This is
drama and dance;
 Special Olympics – L6 & U6 work with this group. L6 students and others have taken a course to
enable them to gain a tennis coaches certificate which would allow them to coach tennis within
Special Olympics activities;
Allowing pupils from local state schools to attend certain lessons or other educational events at
independent schools:
 the Ogden Trust support us in the delivery of Saturday science master-classes, the science aspect of
the summer school and in the delivery of a day of G&T activity (held at a local state secondary school);
 The Sutton Trust – unstinting top-up support for our Summer School;
 the SHINE Foundation support us in the delivery of Serious Fun on Saturday MFL sessions; 12 state
schools have sent pupils to these sessions in 2011-2012 – German, French Spanish and Russian being
covered;
 the Royal Institution support maths master-classes for Year 6 to Year 9 at Norwich School;
 the SHINE Foundation supported the “Let Teacher SHINE Scheme”, where children from Year 6 in
County State Primaries have their mathematic skills enhanced before moving up into secondary
school, completed in 2014;
 Easter revision courses – open to state school B to A candidates and D to C candidates – part funded
by Norfolk Great to Good.
 Annual Civil Rights Conference – (2014 - 290 pupils and seven schools – Norwich School, Gresham’s,
Springfield, Acland Burghly, Stowmarket, Sewell Park and CNS).
Formally seconding teaching staff to other state schools or colleges, for example in specialist subjects such
as individual sciences or modern languages:
 the development of philosophy and English teaching at CAN / the development of Politics teaching at
Notre Dame HS;
 recently to Brundall Primary, Latin teaching;
 Governorship’s at other schools, currently eight staff involved;
 Teacher training – PGCE placements for UEA and Cambridge Classics, NTTC trainees and Buckingham
trainees;
 ISTIP regional training centre for newly qualified teachers.
 Ogden Teaching Fellow – working with five primaries and six secondary schools, with Teacher Science
Network and UEA primary and secondary PGCE trainees;
 NS Sports Outreach Officer;
 Head of Lower School Outreach;
 The Head of Maths and the second in Maths help at CAN on Wednesday afternoon’s.
 Teaching Economics to NCFC Trainees at the Colney Training Ground.
Formalising ways of sharing knowledge, skills, expertise and experience with other educational providers,
for example, state schools, colleges, academies and universities:
 Through the Open Opportunities Programme in Norwich to support a propempo group of city state
pupil/students in their preparations for university entry;
 Outreach teaching;
 Ogden Teaching Fellow – working with five primaries and six secondary schools, with Teacher Science
Network and UEA primary and secondary PGCE trainees (See appendix);
 NS Sports Outreach Officer (see appendix);
 Head of Lower School Outreach;
 Star Dome presentation – generally four other schools involved.
 Little Melton Primary – library resource sharing. Norwich Lower School and Little Melton involved in
peer observation.
 Leading an Economics blog for tutor2U – for UK Business Studies and Economics Students
 Judging the Royal Economics Society’s Essay Competition
 Involvement with ARISS – UK Space Agency.
Working with schools overseas that provide education to children from families that cannot afford to pay for
the child’s education (all achieved through fund raising by the school Charities Committee and others):
 Through Disket Monastery we have for some years financially and practically supported the GTC
Monastic School in India’s Nubra Valley;
 Since 2009 we have supported financially the Infant’s Cultural Centre “El Color de la Esperanza” - a
focal point for the community in the shanty town of Boulogne Sur Mer in Salta, Argentina.
Supporting state schools to help them prepare A-level students for entry to universities:
 Norfolk University Summer School, established in 2002;
 Interview support for Oxbridge candidates;
 Open Opportunities Support;
 Careers Conference.
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Donated science equipment to Sprowston HS – for Biology GCSE.
Hosting joint schools events with other local state and independent schools, such as sports days, maths,
spelling, music, dance and drama competitions or productions:
 The Norfolk Children’s Book Festival, held in the final weeks of term attracted 600+ state school pupils
and staff;
 Science day via our Ogden Teaching Fellow;
 Hosting musical master-class sessions at Norwich School with support from the Michael Badminton
Young Musicians Trust;
 Our pupils write and perform the annual Nativity Play in the Cathedral for 300 severely disabled
Norfolk youngsters.
Working together with a state school on a project to improve the quality of teaching and learning for pupils:
 Work with CAN Year 8’s at Norwich School on a Latin Scheme for five years. It has now been formally
handed back to CAN;
 Joint Drama productions with CAN. First event: “The Boy that Lost Christmas”.
 Norwich School drama pupils – prepare and perform Anti-Bullying Assembly for West Earlham Junior
School.
 Legal Outreach – running lessons on humanities at Eaton Primary School regarding legislation and
other legal/political issues;
 Russian – teaching children in local primary schools the language and handicrafts from Russia.
Neatherd High School, Dereham, Free School, Norwich, George White Junior, Norwich, Magdalen
Gates, Norwich, City Academy, Norwich, Taverham Hall School, Taverham, Bignold Primary School,
Norwich
 Care for Children and Street Child – run lessons and assemblies to highlight the work of both these
charities;
 Street Child (Educational charity in Sierra Leone) and Care for children (charity which works to place
indigenous orphans with indigenous families in areas of the world where adoption is unusual eg
China, North Korea.); sixth-formers have contributed to the work of these organisations and help run
them in country during GAP years.
Working in partnership with a non-fee-charging school overseas to share knowledge, skills and expertise and
arrange cultural exchange visits for pupils at both schools:
 Catholic Junior College, Singapore – developing for 2015. Two visits by CJC to Norwich School already;
 Assumption Samutprakam High School, Bangkok have visited Norwich School. A scheme of possible
teacher exchanges to be developed through 2015.
School organisations:
 Community Service:
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Expectation that Sixth Form "make a contribution to the wider community";
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Approximately 200 in Sixth Form are involved with some 50 groups;
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Weekly contact or one-off performances, conferences, etc.
 Pupil-led Charities Committee:
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Home clothes days;
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Sleep-overs;
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Cake sales;
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House charities;
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Fund raising dinners;
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Growing and selling wild flowers at Easter;
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Sales to mark festivals and anniversaries ie Valentine’s Day;
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Schemes such as GogoGorillas and GogoDragons.
Additionally:
 We continue to support and manage three important Norfolk book collections for the good of the
country;
 The Otebo Trust Micro Bank, set up for Norwich School in 2004 in Tanah Merah, Timor, continues to
support some 80+ projects for the good of the local community;
 Lord Taverner’s cricket match on Lower Close;
 Hosting finish of Cycle Norfolk;
 National Fungi Day in Lower School (NB: new Lower School science laboratory);
 Bill Viola exhibition in Chapel Crypt.
If you have an initiative you'd like to get off the ground:
 Make an approach through:
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an initiative mentioned here (YNAF, YNSA, Community Service, facilities);
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or with new idea to use NS educational expertise and charitable aptitude.
Appendix – Outreach Teachers
Ogden Physics Teacher Fellow
PE Outreach
Stephanie Taylor
Nikki Christian
Work this year with:
Supporting revision, CPD,
encouraging girls into science,
supporting prospective teachers,
supporting specific specification
sections
At White Woman Lane Junior
School Hockey to Year 5 pupils
after-school gym club to years
3&4, with 30 pupils attending over
the term. Gifted and Talented
group to work with next term.
at
Hockey to year 3&4 pupils at Old
Catton Junior School and
gymnastics club after-school for
years 3-6..
North Walsham HS,
Wymondham Academy,
Science Learning Centre,
Aylsham HS,
Iceni Academy,
UEA Seconday PGCE Course,
Reepham HS,
St.Francis of Assisi, Mulbarton and
Scarning Primary
At Avenue Junior I have been
teaching gymnastics both in
curriculum time and after-school .
West Earlham Junior taught dance
to their Year 3 pupils. Coached a
Year 5&6 mixed Netball team to
their first win.
Other schools where bespoke oneoffs occur:
Freethorpe, Acle, Lingwood,
Fairhaven and Fleggburgh.