Working with the Community

How this area contributes to achievement in your school

A school that works effectively with its community:

• benefits school improvement and pupil achievement
• lifts the standing of a school within its community
• demonstrates its potential to be at the heart of community regeneration
• works out the way forward with the community
• bases provision upon responsiveness to local need
• enables multi-agency support mechanisms to be based at a familiar and convenient place for most children and families
• sees children in the context of their whole environment and aims to make that as stimulating, enjoyable and secure as possible
• recognises that improving children’s economic, educational, social, emotional and physical wellbeing should not be separated from that of the family and broader community
• considers Every Child Matters outcomes for children as the starting point for planning and the key factor in evaluating provision