This single school trust opened in August 2008. Comberton Village College serves a relatively prosperous rural catchment area to the west of Cambridge. It has Sports College status and additional specialisms in Languages and Vocational Education; in addition, the college is a Training School and a Leading Edge School. This High Performing Specialist School sees the trust as the strategic vehicle to maintain and enhance standards in its family of schools, including future schools as the locality’s population continues to grow. One reason for becoming a trust was to enter the competition for the new primary school in Cambourne.
Partners:
The majority of partners are educational institutions, most of which already had a working relationship with the college, and they were chosen to continue and enhance its work (eg the ITE provider’s link to the Training School). ARU is providing advice and guidance as the new 6th form provision is being planned for Sept 2011. The community partners reflect the ethos and strong links that the college has with its community.
Examples of trust impact include:
Plans for the future include greater cooperation with partner
schools to pursue higher standards for all, possible expansion of
the trust to include primaries and a possible competition bid for
the new secondary school in Cambourne.
“I see the trust as the mechanism for us to shape the
development of the educational landscape in this community, rather
than being led by others whose aims may not be consistent with
ours”.
Stephen Munday, Headteacher