Our partnerships build mutually beneficial educational opportunity for our community, focusing on working with local partner schools and community groups.
We call our work ‘partnerships’ rather than ‘outreach’. The Partnerships Programme at Habs sees hundreds of our students and staff, plus thousands of partner school students and staff working together every single week. All in genuine partnership.
The impact of this programme is profound. The conviction that all communities benefit by working together is at its heart. Also through partnerships work, our students develop the resilience and moral compass to create positive change. By developing daily shared educational experiences, we draw students our students out into the wider world, while inviting the wider world into Habs.
The aim is that every Habs student be involved in partnerships work as they progress through our school. With such a large, varied and still-growing programme, there is plenty for them to get stuck into.
The core of the programme consists of a rich, varied programme of weekly academic and co-curricular sessions for students from a network of local state partner schools. All activities are led by our students and staff:
We are building teacher capacity through local, national and global professional learning networks.
For example, we are training four new teachers in our partner schools:
We have created a Refugee Learning Hub for the 120 Afghan children living nearby:
WWe are investing heavily in expanding and deepening our partnerships:
Watch this space for more.