CEDAR TREE FEDERATION - a partnership from January 2020
Over three past years the leaders of Pinhoe C of E (VA) Primary School and Woodbury C of E (VA) Primary School have worked in partnership to develop each school. Financial demands and the desire to extend opportunities for our staff and children have led to our schools making the decision to work more formally together in a federation.
More recently, the governing bodies of both schools have discussed the many ways in which both schools could benefit by making the partnership a more permanent arrangement. Over the summer of 2019 there was a consultation and the outcome of this process was that the two schools will federate in January 2020 and become Cedar Tree Federation.
What is a federation?
A federation is a family of schools, with each school retaining its unique character within its own community; its own name and uniform. Each school will have a separate Ofsted and Church inspections and the performance data is published separately.
The current admissions process will remain the same with children being admitted to each school under their individual Admissions Policy. The schools within the federation will share one governing board consisting of representatives from both school communities and ensuring that the Christian distinctiveness of both schools will continue to be upheld.
There is no single blue print for federation; each federation is tailored to the needs of the different schools and communities that are involved. There are currently approximately 35 federations across Devon, involving over 80 schools, with the first federations in Devon forming in 2006 and many others considering this as a successful sustainable model for their school’s future.
We are proposing to federate to ensure continuing strong leadership and high standards in teaching and learning whilst maintaining each school’s individual ethos and values.
What are the benefits for our schools?
How will this work?
From January 2020, Sian Lane will be the Executive Headteacher, leading both schools. There will be a full-time non-teaching Head of School within each school. At Pinhoe this is Mel Johns and at Woodbury this is Gillian Pyle.
The Heads of School will focus their energies on the day to day leadership of the school teaching, learning and standards. They will both be supported by Assistant Headteachers who will have some teaching responsibility.
(Mr Chris Holding is the Assistant Head for Woodbury C of E School)
There will be an Executive Business Manager, Rachel Hingston, who has been the Business Manager at Pinhoe for the last six years and will lead business management across the Federation.
The Federation will have one governing board composed of representatives from each school community. The make-up of the governing board has to adhere to Regulations.
The membership of this single governing board includes representation for parents and staff, foundation (church) governors, co-opted governors and a local authority governor. The governing board will have overall responsibility for both schools within the federation.
The size of the federated governing body is 16 as follows:
2 Parent governors
1 Staff governor
Executive Headteacher
1 Local Authority appointed governor
9 Foundation governors (to include an ExOfficio)
2 Co-opted governors
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