Co-operative approaches to learning in Southampton are currently blooming. A third of the City’s schools are now members of one of three co-operative learning trusts, which means that 19 Southampton schools are now working in close partnership with the City Council as Cooperative Trust Schools, covering all parts of the City. 2020 has been declared by the City Council as the ‘Year of the Child’ which provides an ideal focus time for harnessing the pioneering work of the City’s cooperative schools movement. The following case study briefly describes the City’s longest serving schools co-operative trust.

 

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