Supplementary Education
YPF Trust came together with the centre for supplementary education (formerly NRCSE) in 2022 to ensure the continuation of support and guidance to community-led settings offering supplementary (also known as out-of-school) education.
Supplementary schools are community-based initiatives to provide additional educational support for children who also attend mainstream schools.
They are often geared to provide specific heritage languages, cultural and religious teaching for children from ethnic minorities as well as additional literacy, numeracy, science and homework support.
Working alongside local partnerships YPF Trust supports safe, effective delivery in communities and collaborate with them to raise the profile of community-led activities among mainstream schools and other children’s services.
The focus is on a place-based approach to this support, building the capacity of local partnerships to ensure they can meet the needs of local supplementary education providers – this is done through a range of activities, including:
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Facilitation of the Quality Mark for Supplementary Education
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Access to governance training – in person and online
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Training to develop creativity in teaching and learning
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Support to embed Children's Rights and strategies to encourage student voice/youth voice within settings
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Support and facilitation of partnership development with youth and statutory education sectors
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Promotion of local YPF membership