1. Sharing the Present, Shaping the Future
Script development: Sharing the Present, Shaping the Future
Add School Crests and photos if applicable
SCHOOL ASSEMBLY PACK

2. What is Shared Education?
At its heart Shared Education involves providing children and young people from different communities, as well as social and economic backgrounds, with the opportunity to learn together.
Script development: Explain the definition of Shared Education at an appropriate level for the age group of students. Outline how Shared Education is now a policy within government to support the continuation of this type of shared learning within schools across Northern Ireland including nursery schools, primary schools, post primary schools and special schools.
Shared Education is delivered through partnerships, consisting of two or more schools, or other education providers, from different sectors and community backgrounds.  This means that children and young people from each of the main communities have the opportunity to learn together, through planned, regular contact, based on the NI curriculum.
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3. Who is currently involved?
As of March 2018, the numbers involved in SESP were:
371 schools (16 pre-school, 246 primary, 99 post primary, 5 special) representing 159 partnerships
49,153 pupils
As of March 2018, the numbers involved in Peace IV were:
212 schools (51 pre-school, 150 primary, 10 post primary, 1 special) representing 95 partnerships
9,896 pupils
Script development: Tell the students to statistics about the number of pupils and schools currently involved in Shared Education Activity and emphasise they are contributing to the success of the shared education programme by being involved. Specifically outline the numbers of pupils/teachers involved in your own partnership to date.

4. Why get involved? Learner Centred Effective Leadership
High Quality Learning & Teaching
Effective Leadership
Community
Connections
Script development: Highlight the four areas that all Shared Education Activities are planned around and that ETI will evaluate progress against – Learner Centred, High Quality Teaching and Learning, Effective Leadership and Community Connections
Shared Education provides opportunities for pupils, teachers, parents and communities to engage and learn together and from each other. Schools working together can achieve more by pooling their resources and expertise to provide the best education for children and young people across the community. These 4 areas are further broken down over the next 2 slides.

5. What are the Benefits?
Script development: You have highlighted specific benefits – choose a few that you feel are most applicable to expand on e.g. Time for teachers to plan and review lessons together; Sharing of better resources; Opportunities to learn together and from each other.

6. What are the Benefits? Leadership
Joint Teacher Professional Learning opportunities
Development of middle management
Collaboration assists with the development of “Next Practice”
Peer support
Community
Supports development of good relations
Opportunity to showcase quality work ongoing in partner schools.
Helps develop links with local businesses & key community members.
Script Development: As with previous slide identify one or two key benefits to elaborate on.

7. Sharing the Present … Shaping the Future.
Our Shared Education Story
This section of the presentation is about telling your schools Shared Education story. You can personalise the slide which leads into this section by adding school crests/motto etc

8. The History of our Partnership….
Suggestion re: Images: You could add the school crests of your partnership or a photograph/quotation which you think represents your partnership or the reasoning behind your participation in Shared Education;
Partnership Timeline: Application made: Letter of Offer: First Shared Education Session:
Script development: A brief overview of your journey so far. You can provide a brief explanation of why the school wanted to become involved then briefly go through the process of becoming involved to demonstrate that there was an application process in which your partnership met all the criteria to be accepted to the programme. You could adapt the Partnership Timeline on the slide with the dates relevant to you.

9. Sharing our Present…. Suggestion re: images
You could add pictures of pupils taking part the Shared Activities or pictures of completed work etc;
Script development:
This section of the pp is a good place to share the work undertaken through Shared Education. The explanation could cover:
Year Groups/Classes involved/Number of Pupils involved to date:
The Curriculum area/Activities undertaken;
Resources that had been purchased;
Staff Training that has been accessed through the programme;

10. Sharing with our Community…
Suggestion re: images:
Pictures from Celebration Events;
Outside agencies working with pupils/staff;
Pictures of Shared Education display boards;
Picture or quotes from newspaper articles etc.
Script development:
This section of the presentation allows you to explain how you have shared your partnerships work with the local community/availed of expertise from the community to increase pupils opportunities:
Parents and or wider community informed/invited to events;
How you publicised your successes;
Involvement of outside agencies;

11. Celebrating our Success….
Suggestion re: images
Pictures from the Celebration Event;
Pictures of completed work;
Image of students from the partnership working together;
Quotes from Pupils/Staff/Parents etc.
Script development: This section of the assembly could reference how you have celebrated and/or publicised your Shared Education successes. You could explain about your celebration event-where it was held/what it involved/who attended etc. You could mention completed work/publicity in local papers . This section also allows for pupils to talk to their peers about their experiences

12. Shaping our future…. Suggestion re: images
You could add a brief outline of your plans for 2018/19 in the form of a schedule of events
Script development: This section allows you to share plans with all of the school for your Shared Education partnership in 2018/19 and even to discuss future plans re: year groups/areas of the curriculum you may include beyond 2018/19.