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North schools 'are ahead of game'.
(From The Journal)
Byline: Dave Black
LESSONS learned in the creation of a pioneering, 3,000-pupil super school in Northumberland have been highlighted at a prestigious international education conference in the USA.
Six headteachers from the ground-breaking Ashington Learning Partnership Trust travelled to Louisville, Kentucky, recently for the special summit meeting on education. They shared their experiences in developing the all-age, five school partnership with leading figures from education around the world. Yesterday Ken Tonge, strategic head of the partnership, said the trip had shown that the Ashington system was a decade ahead of what was happening in the USA.
The trust - which comprises Ashington High School, Bothal and Hirst Park Middle Schools and Wansbeck and Central First Schools - was one of the first 12 of its kind to be established in 2007.
It involves a single, all-age learning organisation and has developed new curriculum structures and ways of ...
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