titleExtending our reach

National PRD Group

Promoting the values of partnership and joint approaches

Are you exploiting your full potential?

•Building expertise and capacity•Professional development•Value to locality /communities•Partnership programmes and services•Peer challenge and support•Presentation to different stakeholders

Partnership strengths

• Beaumont doing…we….

• Find an exciting project

• A shared vision – something mutually beneficial

• Plan carefully with mutual respect

• Prepare to go the extra mile and be flexible

• Learn from every partnership to make the next one better

• Henshaws doing…– Henshaws Means Business: an approach to engaging with local

employers– Partners in Craft: enduring partnership with national company in

sustainable enterprise– Professional placements for students from local Universities and

colleges (Therapy, Social Work etc)– Workshops for Parents– Conference/training venue– Link courses for local schools– Technology project partnerships through JISC– Short breaks for children with disabilities– Accreditation partnerships

• RNC doing…

• Partnership with Forestry commission. Making a sensory trail in Wyre forest and a smaller copy at RNC

• Partnership with Hereford College of Art to provide work based learning opportunities in media production and music technology for students with visual impairment. Has led to ‘Live at the Chapel ‘ productions.

• Partnership with FA to establish a football academy and further develop blind football

• Partnership with local PCT in an angling club. RNC provides help and advice about access and safety

• Partnership with Blind Cricket England and Wales and Herefordshire County cricket Board to develop blind cricket at RNC and widen participation in sport within college.

• Partnership with Leonardo da Vinci programme backed by EU, for practical projects allowing educational exchanges with students from a college for students with visual impairment in France.

National Star…

Together we can achieve more….Build on strengthsShared ownership (listen and communicate)Win : Win

•Curriculum offer•Access services•Professional development•Peer partnerships•Transition•Enterprise•Residential

Derwen doing…

• Derwen considers partnerships as an essential aspect of its ongoing support for learners’ needs and the process of continuous institutional improvement.

• Involvement in local and national initiatives provides new avenues of opportunity for all learners and staff together with a system of benchmarks against which the college can measures its effectiveness.

• Trust, integrity, professionalism and a willingness to work collaboratively in both formal and informal partnerships.

Examples for partnerships;• Shropshire, Hereford and Worcestershire Professional

Development Partnership (PDP) group – providing cpd• Whittington Castle and grounds – students working on the up keep

of the grounds and working in the cafe• Staffordshire University – developing LLDD teacher training

modules• SFA inclusive skills competitions