Welcome To Crown Hills Community College

Community Cohesion in Practice

Community cohesion lies at the heart of what makes a strong and safe community. It must be delivered locally through creating strong networks, based on principles of trust, and respect for local diversity, and nurturing a sense of belonging and confidence in local people. Effectively delivering community cohesion also tackles the fractures in society which may lead to conflict and ensures that the gains that communities bring are a source of strength to local areas. Crown Hills College provides education for all, acknowledging that the society within which we live is enriched by diversity. We strive to ensure that the culture and ethos of the college reflects the diversity of all members of the college community, where everyone is equally valued and treats one another with respect and fairness. Students are provided with the opportunity to experience, understand and celebrate diversity. We will work towards eliminating all discrimination, on the grounds of race, gender, gender reassignment, disability, sexuality (including sexual orientation), age, religion and belief. We believe that all students, employees, stakeholders and members of our local and global community should be treated with dignity and respect at all times and we will not tolerate bullying, harassment or victimisation of any groups or individuals.

Progress To Date:
We have written, shared and completed a transparent and unambiguous Policy Re: Equality Diversity and Community Cohesion We have carried out an audit of all Community Cohesion delivered within the curriculum at Crown Hills. This is an ongoing project and updates will be scheduled every 18 to 24 months. Community Cohesion is now a standing item on all Faculty Agendas to assist future auditing. We have designed, issued, collated and analysed an Equality and Diversity questionnaire to ascertain opinion from Crown Hills staff, parents and students. This data has been reviewed by SLT and Faculties within the school and used to inform future planning. We are continuing to build an extensive portfolio of all Community Cohesion activity at Crown Hills some of which include:- Sporting Partnerships (multitude); Connecting Classrooms (Zimbabwe, Nigeria) in conjunction with City of Leicester and St Paul’s; Creative Partnerships (The Mighty Creatives) 1)Year 9 Nurture Sculpture; 2) Science, Technology and filming; One Leicester Link Project (Samworth); Send My Friend to School (One Goal Campaign) etc…
Action Plan 2010 – 2011
Community Cohesion
Continue to build the Community Cohesion portfolio of evidence (link specifically to the Improvement Plan) Create a Community Cohesion area on the school web-page Monitor Faculty Community Cohesion provision (Faculty meeting agendas) Prepare for Faculty (school) re-audit of provision Gather student response to Diversity, Equality and Community Cohesion Through the Sports Specialism continue to build on existing projects and target new ones
International Schools’ Award
We have Foundation and Intermediate. Develop an Action Plan to move towards Advanced Award

Here is a sample of some of the work that we have been doing.
Ladies Evening - May 2011
	The ladies evening provided an opportunity for women in the local community to attend a social event organised by the staff and students at Crown Hills. Events at the evening included a fashion show, sit down meal as well as songs and dancing performed by the students. All money raised by the event went to the world food programme.
Theme Days 2011
All students participate in three theme days throughout the academic year. one in each term. The themes are specific to each year group and different departments within the school collaborate with each other to plan and deliver. Themes have included, sports and the Olympics, healthy living and healthy lifestyle and Identity. Theme days allow the students the opportunities to try new things including food tasting, boat racing and bike riding.
Community Cohesion Connecting Leicester Classrooms Project June 2011
	Approx 70 students from across 7 secondary schools within the city participated in a week of activities that were planned and hosted by each of the 7 schools. The week was kicked off with a day of team building activities at Beaumanor Hall, Monday was our turn and all the students participated in Dance, Drama and ‘garage band’ workshops followed by sporting activities in goals. Other events that week included roller skating at Full Hurst, a cook off at the Samworth academy and Air powered Rocket / Car racing at Rushey Mead a brilliant time was had by all and some firm friendships have been made.
WECA – Wednesday Afternoons
In the summer term of 2011 we decided to try something new. The idea was inspired by our friends from the schools in Zimbabwe where they finish academic learning at lunchtime and students are then encouraged to engage in a wide variety of activities to broaden their horizons and enhance their lives. We launched our first activity afternoon known as WECA; an opportunity to learn with different year groups, to work with different teachers and to give 'difference' a chance. And it certainly was different! We had over sixty activities to choose from, working both on and off the school site. WECA ran for the last six weeks of the summer term during the last lesson of the day.