Our Learning Away Partnership

We are partnership of three schools in London sponsored by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in the UK to develop new ways of organising and running residential experiences for young people. This blog will record some of our thoughts, experiences and findings as we explore new ways of collaborating, creating and coordinating learning away experiences.

Our three partner schools are Thomas Tallis School (Greenwich), St Matthew Academy (Lewisham) and Elliott School (Wandsworth) and we are working closely with Widehorizons Trust - a residential and outdoor adventure provider working with both primary and secondary schools.

The goal of our partnership is to find new ways of running residential experiences, based on giving students a strong voice in the design and organisation of the experience. Each school has its own priorities but our overall objective is to focus our activities on raising the achievement of particular groups of students, and to use the template and practise we develop to transform learning in the curriculum and across a partnership of schools.