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Collaboration and Partnership

If you intend to develop your GCSE science offer in partnership with other schools, colleges or higher education institutions this section will help to formulate your ideas and plans. You will find useful tips on setting up and managing partnerships, working with employers, HEIs and research organisations to enhance the science curriculum as well as examples and models of effective partnerships to deliver triple science.

Triple Science GCSEs Collaborative Approaches

Pages that you may be interested in:

Benefits of collaboration
Managing change
Partnership models
Case Studies
Creating a team
Strategic decisions
Developing Staff
Procedures and protocols
Duty of care
Evaluating the impact

TSSP networks - You can find contact details and case studies for the TSSP funded networks. Also, we have hints and ideas on setting up and running successful networks

Collaborative partnership 2008-09

The 2008/09 collaborative partnership have produced a series of case studies, highlighting the wider range of models of successful collaboration between schools:

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• Auditing the partnership provision   (136 KB) A set of audit documents for the partnership planning team to establish their strengths, weaknesses, aspirations and areas for joint development
  
• Strategic partnership plan   (56 KB) Action plan summarising the key strategic decisions a partnership will need to address.
  

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• 21st Century Science: Chemistry C3 - Food Matters  (0 KB)
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  PDF file for technicians in schools using 21st Century Science. The 'advanced planning sheets' detail resources and items that may need to be prepared/ordered for delivery of module C3.
  
  

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• Teacher Resource Exchange: moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers
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  The Teacher Resource Exchange is a free database of resources created by teachers and checked by subject specialists. Search categories include age, subject, assessment, website, class teaching, homew...
  
  

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Case Study (Showing 8 of 8 available)

• Collaboration Partnership - The Millennium Seed Bank Project - Wakehurst Place  (214 KB)
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  This case study describes the enhancement of teaching and learning in Triple Science GCSEs through a partnership between professional scientists and schools.
  
  
• A local Authorit strategy for supporting Triple Science - Buckinghamshire County Council  (231 KB)
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  This case study sets out how a local authority (LA) is seeking to improve delivery of Triple Science GCSEs through fostering more collaborative working between institutions. Buckinghamshire Local ...
  
  
• Building a culture of collaboration through Diploma development - Bradfield School  (228 KB)
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  This case study describes a developing situation in which the introduction of the new Diploma in Engineering is helping to build a culture of collaboration in curriculum delivery. This offers pote...
  
  
• Building capacity for delivary of Triple Science in Medway - Medway Council  (214 KB)
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  This case study focuses on staff development and sharing expertise, including the important role of technicians. It also illustrates how collaboration with a higher education (HE) partner offers p...
  
  
• Developing e-learning and a "virtual school" alongside real enrichment activities - Villers High School, Ealing  (256 KB)
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  A case study combining effective collaboration with an external provider of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) enrichment activities, active involvement of STEM undergraduate studen...
  
  
• Westfield - Collaborative Approaches case studies  (273 KB)
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  This case study outlines the development of the South Somerset Science Network and its collaborative approach to increasing and supporting the delivery of Triple Science GCSEs.
  
  
• Carleton - Collaboration partnership case study  (234 KB)
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  This case study outlines the collaborative approach of two comprehensive schools working together, and with their learning community, towards better science provision. This provision assists in, a...
  
  
• Collaboration case study: Ridgeway school and the Swindon and central Wiltshire local science network   (282 KB)
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  This case study describes how developing relationships and collaboration with the community and industry, and sharing ideas across a network of schools, can enrich teaching and learning of Triple ...
  
  

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• Strategic partnership plan  (56 KB)
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  Action plan summarising the key strategic decisions a partnership will need to address.
  
  
• Auditing the partnership provision  (136 KB)
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  A set of audit documents for the partnership planning team to establish their strengths, weaknesses, aspirations and areas for joint development
  
  
• Top tips for effective networks  (192 KB)
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  Hints and ideas on setting up and running successful networks
  
  
• Evaluating the impact
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  Monitoring the success of any partnership agreements should be embedded in the planning cycle. This section discusses how the partnership can be evaluated and offers a case study entitled 'Monitoring ...
  
  
• Duty of care
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  This section discusses duties of care within the partnership under the headings ‘Health and safety’, 'Attendance and reporting procedures', 'Travel arrangements', 'Insurance', 'Vetting' and 'Work-rela...
  
  
• Procedures and protocols
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  Each set of policy decisions should be accompanied by a set of strategies and operational procedures. and protocols, which everyone signs up to, will support the transition from strategic to operation...
  
  
• Triple Science GCSEs - Collaborative Approaches
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  Many schools that are preparing to introduce Triple Science GCSEs may find it helpful to collaborate with other schools or other institutions to share expertise and explore how best to deliver the ent...
  
  
• Technology for E-learning: Camel models e-learning collaboration - sharing good practice
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  Webpage from FERL summarising the CAMEL Project (Collaborative Approaches to the Management of E-Learning) and with a link to JISC to obtain the CAMEL CD-ROM toolkit for starting up networks.
  
  
• Network for Chemistry Communicators: the NCC
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  The NCC is a web-based network from the RSC for chemists around the world to share ideas, experiences and expertise. The objective is to share best practice to help to communicate chemistry as effecti...
  
  

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• Collaboration case study: Ridgeway school and the Swindon and central Wiltshire local science network   (282 KB)
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  This case study describes how developing relationships and collaboration with the community and industry, and sharing ideas across a network of schools, can enrich teaching and learning of Triple ...
  
  

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