Becoming a Specialist School - The National Middle Schools
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Becoming a Specialist School
NMSF Oct 2007
Step 1
Do you have the staffing capacity to give
significant additional time to prepare and
implement a bid?
Step 2
What specialism is your partner Upper
School and when is it due for
redesignation?
Step 3
Contact the Upper School and request a
meeting to discuss applying and see who
their contacts within the DCSF & SSAT are?
If necessary make contact directly with the
above organistaions (emails to follow)
Step 4
Download application forms and guidance
and get on with it!
Step 5
Step 6
Get someone from SSAT to check your draft
Submit bid and await initial rejection!
Step 7
Resubmit, pass and spend your money
Benefits
Approx £130 per KS3 child per year!
All the things you can spend the money
on- (most of it will be tied into bid targets)
Professional development and prestige
Renewed opportunities to work with local
community
etc
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/speciali
stschools/
http://www.ssatrust.org.uk/
Ron Jenkinson
01305 262897
www.stosmunds.dorset.sch.uk
Gordon Redley
01305 265651
www.dorchestermid.dorset.sch.uk