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CEO Blog – Destinations Champions

CEO Blog – Destinations Champions

  CEO Blog - Destinations Champions I can't quite believe that we've made it to December already, but here we are, and the countdown to Christmas is well and truly underway! This week, I would like to point you all in the direction of our newest New Bridge...

CEO Blog – 24.11.23

CEO Blog – 24.11.23

CEO Blog - 24.11.23 Happy Friday, everyone. I'm keeping it brief this week, but I wanted to give you an update on what's been going on behind the scenes at New Bridge... I met with the Directors at New Bridge Horizons, talking about the exciting partnerships we build...

CEO Blog – 17.11.23

CEO Blog – 17.11.23

CEO Blog - 17.11.23 This week has been another busy week for all of us at New Bridge, and I'm proud of our staff teams for pulling together and continuing to offer our students and young people the very best, even when it's already dark by the time most of them are...

CEO Blog – 10.11.23

CEO Blog – 10.11.23

CEO Blog - 10.11.23 This week, it has been good to see each of our sites commemorating Remembrance Day in their own way. The creativity and thought that our staff have put into these 'Remembrance' themed activities is brilliant, and testament to their ingenuity. It...

CEO Blog (3.11.23) – Welcome Back

CEO Blog (3.11.23) – Welcome Back

CEO Blog (3.11.23) - Welcome Back To everyone who has just had half term, I want to say, 'welcome back', and that I hope you had the opportunity to spend some quality time with friends and family over the break. This first term is usually the toughest, and the October...

Graham

Welcome back everyone.

I hope you all had a great half term.

I’d like to start this week’s blog by thanking our full year staff and holiday club teams. It was great to see so many children and young people enjoying each other’s company. Our “extended school” offer ensures that our young people can engage in appropriate activities in the holiday period and our families can be assured that their children are safe and secure with staff that they know well. Our 48 week offer is quite unique.

At the beginning of the week I attended a Special Schools’ Voice meeting in Birmingham. The national steering committee, with the support of schools and membership organisations, has successfully contributed to many developments over the past 4 years. We believe we have influenced significant policy areas including school finances, the structure of MATs, the formation and growth of special free schools and the capital investment into oversubscribed and popular special schools. We are currently actively pursuing a number of other key areas including the regional anomalies relating to health provision, the growth in numbers of young people with additional needs, initial teacher teaching and ways to further influence the post 16 (and post 19) agenda. There was a general consensus that there appeared to be an awful lot happening within our schools.

I was really pleased that earlier in the week John, Dan and our Horizons team started at The Guinness Partnership. As you know, we were successful in bidding to run their catering and café facilities. We are presently offering a reduced service as the café is being fully renovated and modernised. In a few weeks our young people will have access to a “state of the art” kitchen area. It’s going to be great.

Our trustees have also asked me to explore extending our town centre provisions. Presently we have Springboard and Medtia. As you know, our new free school (Springboard) was purposely designed and provides an amazing learning environment for around 40 of our young people. Our partner organisation, Horizons, is based in our Medtia building. John and his team now support more than 100 young adults (amazing seeing as we started off with 6!!).

As you will also be aware, over the last couple of years some of our Key Stage 5 curriculum pathways have also worked out of this building. As we have more and more young people choosing our pathways (Digit4ll, Activ8, Lumenus, Pre-Internship etc.) there is a need to ensure we create the most appropriate learning environments we are able. The Medtia building is now getting quite busy so we do need to explore some improved options. Hopefully in the next few weeks I will be in a position to give you more information.

As usual, a busy week!

Have a great weekend,

Graham

You can find all Graham’s previous blog entries here

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