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Date: Friday, May 27, 2011

South Gloucester Learning Trust - the next step

Following the very successful day at Beaufort School in April the next step was a public meeting to take the trust forward.

Pete met with school staff then young people representing the three schools. After a brief review and catch up there was a trawl through the materials produced  ( Over 60 flip charts and 250 photos!)
The group decided to present 4 key elements:
Who was at the day and what happened
Key issues discussed
Who should take action on them
What would be signs of success of a learning trust
A hectic hour produced some great materials and presentations.

That evening ninety people gathered in the church – the huge increase from the previous meeting was noted, the young people gave a brilliant performance and after a short question and answer session everyone participated in discussion carousels and dot voting.
It was gratifying to see the public meeting which was 75% adults had very similar priorities to the event where young people represented the majority!
After a couple of elections for community representatives there meeting was formally closed, however it was interesting to see large numbers of people staying behind and animated discussions occurring. A joint website for the three schools involved, Facebook groups, an audit of youth provision, parallel meetings of young people and adults - all being explored excitedly.
It will be interesting to see how these initiatives develop alongside the formal co-operative structures.

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