Partnership Organisations
We work in partnership with a range of organisations who support the delivery of our Arts and Culture Strategy as well as our Sports & Physical Activity Strategy. Our carefully chosen partners share our mission to provide world-class creative, cultural and sporting experiences for our young people and our local community.
Partner details
Active Leicester encompasses all sports in the city. We have seven leisure centres with swimming pools and gyms; one climbing wall; one athletics track; one golf facility and several dedicated football pitches. We also have a highly experienced Sports Development Department who work tirelessly to encourage City residents to be more physically active.
Summary of Partnership
New College Leicester has a long-standing partnership with Leicester City Council and their Sports Services Department. From the joint management of our football facility to the many programmes they run to encourage people to be more physically active.
Projects
- The Football Investment Strategy
- The Cricket Facility Development
- The Cycle Circuit Development
- Building Schools for the Future
Partnership Comment
We are still a school that feels very much a part of the Local Authority and really value the collaboration and the support that they offer.
Partner details
Active Together help organisations and individuals support more people to be active and move more.
Summary of Partnership
Active Together work collaboratively with New College Leicester and other local schools and organisations who share the ambition to reduce inequalities in physical activity experienced through access and/or awareness.
Projects
Over the last 18 months, Active Together have worked in partnership with the New Parks Hub and LCFC in the Community, through an Active Together Development Officer and Community Activator. The aim has been to engage with members of the New Parks community and other key local organisations to identify barriers to and provide opportunities for residents to access physical activity and sport locally. The community identified the greatest need around children and young people, both in terms of activity provision and future training and development for volunteer and employment opportunities.
Partnership Comment
Active Together would like to continue working with New College Leicester, to ensure that local children and young people can access a variety of free or low cost sport & physical activity provision.
Geoff Maltby (Sports Development Manager)
Partner details
Curve Theatre Leicester is a state-of-the-art theatre in the heart of Leicester City Centre. Curve offers a full programme of professional theatre alongside quality educational outreach work.
Our partnership
We work closely with Curve Theatre to ensure our students have regular access to world class theatre, dance and stage production experiences.
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Current opportunities and programmes
- Curve Young Company held at New College Leicester
https://www.newcollege.leicester.sch.uk/curve-young-company-cyc/627.html - Workshops delivered by Curve creative professionals at New College Leicester linked to current productions
- Backstage tours of the theatre
- Curve designers and technical specialists work in partnership with our Performing Arts teachers to deliver high quality experiences to our partner primary schools as part of our Year 4 Performing Arts Programme
- Opportunities for students to watch shows and take part in performances
- Teacher CPD activities
Partner details
An internationally renowned university based in Leicester city centre offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and qualifications.
Our partnership
New College Leicester partners with DMU on a number of different programmes and events to draw on the expertise of students and staff at the university for the benefit of both New College Leicester students and those at DMU. We also work together to introduce our students to the opportunities available in higher education at DMU and further afield.
Current opportunities and programmes
- DMU Dance undergraduate performances, workshops and placements at New College
- A development programme for our Arts Ambassadors with the Arts and Festivals Management & Global Arts Management Faculty to enable our young people to develop the confidence, resilience and advocacy skills required to be a successful Arts Ambassadors and in their future careers or training.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a life changing experience. It is an opportunity to discover new interests and talents. It is a tool to develop essential skills for like and work. It is an internationally recognised mark of achievement; respected by colleges, sixth forms and employers.
New College Leicester is a fully licensed organisation. We currently offer the DofE programme at Bronze level that pupils can choose to complete in Year 9 and 10. There are four sections to complete at Bronze level. They involve helping the community or environment, becoming fitter, developing new skills, planning, training for and completing an expedition. Once you have completed your Bronze Award, you can advance on to completing your Silver or even Gold Award. Pupils often complete these at college, sixth form, university or during their apprenticeship.
Any young person can do their DofE regardless of ability, gender, background or location. Achieving an Award isn’t a competition but rather about setting personal challenges and pushing personal boundaries.
Achieving your Bronze DofE award will give you skills, confidence and an edge over others when you apply for college, university or a job. Beyond your academic achievements, colleges, universities and employers want to see evidence of so called ‘soft skills’ that you have developed through extra-curricular activities such as communication commitment, leadership and teamwork. Your DofE Award is a fantastic way to demonstrate and evidence these skills in practice.
At New College, your DofE Leader and DofE Manager will guide you through your 4 sections. You will need to commit to completing some sort of community work, some physical activity to improve fitness and take on a new skill. All of these you will need to keep evidence of so you can be verified. Once these sections have been completed, it is time to start planning for the expedition – 2 days hiking and 1 night camping!
You will be expected to attend weekly meetings where you will need to update your DofE Leader on the progress you are making towards your award. These sessions will also involve some training for your expedition such as map reading, route planning, navigation skills, first aid and campcraft.
The award can be completed in as little as 6 to 12 months. This image shows how you divide your time between the four sections.
To complete the award, it does require a small fee. The DofE charges £24 to enrol its participants. There is then an additional cost to parents to cover the cost of the expedition. This includes the purchase of walking boots, clothing, camping fees, fuel and transport costs. However, at New College, we have an extensive collection of equipment that we lend to participants (tents, rucksacks, sleeping bags, stoves, roll mats etc.) and this keeps the down to an absolute minimum.
If you think you have the commitment and correct attitude to complete your Bronze DofE Award, then speak to the school’s DofE Manager, Mr Hepworth-Adcock.
You can find more information on the DofE Award via this webpage: https://www.dofe.org/
Partner details
Inspire together work across the city on 6 strands; high quality competition, leadership, inclusion, health and wellbeing, community and high-quality PE.
Summary of Partnership
Competitions
New College Leicester students attend school games competitions throughout the year which are organised into 3 strands; inspire, develop & excel. These events offer engaging physical activity and sport for all interests and abilities.
Leadership
Our students also have access to Sports Leadership training and events, some of which are hosted at New College Leicester. This allows us to work closely with partnership organisers and local primary schools.
Projects
Hosting the primary schools football league on Monday afternoons. Selected students from our BTEC Sport classes are in the process of gaining their FA Level 1 refereeing course in order to lead at these events.
Student Comment
Enjoyed going to the events, it was fun. Everyone was very supportive of each other and there was good sportsmanship.
Staff Comment
Over the course of the year our students from New College Leicester gets given the opportunity to help lead many primary school events whether that’s hosted here at New College or elsewhere. We have been to places like Aylestone leisure centre, Loughborough University and Kirby Muxloe Golf Course to help lead a range of activities such as Athletics, Boccia, Kurling, Tri-Golf, Cycling, Tennis and Gymnastics.
The Inspire Together events have been a great platform for our New College Leicester students to develop their leadership and management skills. These events give our students the confidence to be young independent individuals and also the courage to step out of their comfort zones. Not only they get to experience leading a variety of sporting activities but also able to be great role models to the younger generation.
What I enjoy about these events is seeing the togetherness and how they make the environment positive for young children to feel safe to take part in a range of activities.
Partner details
The community programme works with schools in order to educate students and introduce them to rugby. There is a strong emphasis on values and personal development.
Summary of Partnership
New College Leicester has a long-standing partnership that has included curriculum time coaching, extra-curricular clubs and aspirational tournaments at the Tigers ground.
Projects
Tag Rugby Breakfast club Wednesday mornings.
Student Comment
Rugby is a good club it teaches me how to play the sport and play is safely. I have learnt how to catch the ball and drop-kick the ball. I really enjoy the club before school as it helps me get ready for my lessons.
Staff Comment
Every Wednesday morning, we have a coach from Leicester tigers deliver rugby sessions as part of our PE breakfast club. The benefits of this club is that influences our students to be physically active, helping them to achieve their daily exercise, whilst having fun and learning to play the sport. These sessions start at 8am and go on for 45 minutes, and It’s great to see the dedication from our students arriving early to school to take part in rugby. At the end these sessions they’re rewarded a light breakfast.
Partnership Comment
The students at New College Leicester are motivated and passionate about sport. They are enthusiastic participants and show great progress every session, making every session enjoyable to coach.
Partner details
Leicestershire Music Service (LSMS) provides instrumental, ensemble and whole class music tuition for young people. They are passionate about valuing and developing the talents and skills of the whole community through providing life changing musical experiences.
www.leicestershiremusichub.org
Our partnership
LSMC provide specialist instrumental tuition for our students during the school day. Our young people also engage in many of the regular performance and experience opportunities that LSMS offer. LSMS have recently relocated some of their evening ensemble practice sessions to the New College Leicester site which will offer many additional opportunities for our students.
Current opportunities and programmes
We have invested heavily in music tuition to ensure all students have the opportunity to have a weekly instrumental lesson with a specialist free of charge for any of the following instruments:
- Bass Guitar
- Cello
- Clarinet
- Double Bass
- Drums
- Flute
- Guitar
- Percussion
- Piano
- Viola
- Violin
- Vocals
In addition, our weekly after school choir rehearsals are led by a singing specialist from LSMS.
Other current activities include:
- Double Bass Orchestra
- Opportunities for students to watch shows and take part in performances
- Teacher CPD activities
Partner details
Moving Together work in a range of community and education settings to provide quality dance opportunities for all ages and abilities.
Our partnership
We work in collaboration with Moving Together Dance to provide free fun and challenging dance and creative experiences for our students.
Current opportunities and programmes
Moving Together Dance deliver a weekly after school dance club at New College Leicester. Students have the opportunity to try a range of dance styles, develop leadership skills and create their own pieces. They are also supported to achieve their Arts Award Bronze and Silver Awards to recognise their achievements.
There are regular opportunities for participants to watch live shows and perform at New College Leicester and Curve Leicester.
If you would to join this club please follow this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSFhe54nMeDq1NuTtWr40gNSgjZhQTiaK9qpObkivGGpNxUw/viewform
Partner details
RS D&T Training is a health and safety training company which specialises in Design and Technology accredited courses to the DT departments of schools and similar educational establishments.
Courses
Unless stated otherwise, all courses are nationally accredited
Contact
For information on all courses available please visit Home - RS Training (rs-dt-training.co.uk)
Partner details
Soft Touch Arts are an award-winning Leicester charity using arts, media and music activities as a tool to engage with and change the lives of disadvantaged young people.
Our partnership
New College Leicester have worked with Soft Touch Arts for many years on a wide range of projects and long-term programmes to enhance the lives of our students.
Current opportunities and programmes
Project Enable, a partnership between Team Hub, Soft Touch Arts and New College Leicester. This is an art and music programme designed to provide students with a supportive space and outlet to develop their self-confidence, wellbeing, positive coping strategies and social skills through high quality creative activities. Weekly sessions take place at New College with holiday and after school activities held at Team Hub.
Summer school programmes such as Feel Good Summer held at New College in partnership with Pedestrian and De Montfort University. Where students work with university undergraduates and other creative professionals to develop their music and art talents.
The Symphonize project in collaboration with The Philharmonia Orchestra for an intensive week of workshops exploring urban and classical music.
We are proud of our excellent track record of collaborative place based leadership to date and have learnt an enormous amount about how to engage local people and the wider systems with authenticity and purpose. As such, the appetite for learning and building active, healthy communities is now shared by a growing network of partners and is demonstrated by our whole system approach which focuses on a wider geographical area than just New Parks.
Through our community based work we have recognised that traditional methods of creating change that involve ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’ approaches lead to linear silos. Our approach of building communities from the inside out has avoided the silo effect and ensured common purpose towards whole system changes.
We have recognised that organisations and communities are interlinked and interdependent, therefore a system perspective is at the centre of all our work, not just within the realm of sport and physical activity but across the healthcare, social care and public health system as well as more broadly across the 'place shaping agenda'.
Our approach to place leadership applies equally to local leaders within communities and to organisational leaders, strategic influencers and political leaders. We believe and work on the principle that true collaboration has no hierarchy and builds on the logic that partnership is the union which enables all parties to do something together that they cannot do alone. Genuine collaboration within a complex system as required adaptive practice by all involved and we are developing this through all our strategies.
Working in such uncertain, diverse and complex communities where approaches do not yield their normal expected results. We have needed to work flexibly as we encounter unprecedented situations and as our understanding of the local community grows.
Over time we have developed our local knowledge and intelligence which we now share with partners from the Public Sector, Third Sector and, where relevant and appropriate, the Private Sector. Our asset based community development approach is well recognised and we have started to share our success to create active vibrant communities and reducing health inequalities across the city, county and the country.
We have started to create a whole system change by doing things together, by modelling leadership practice and behaviours and by encouraging and enabling leadership at every level, particularly locally where individuals and whole communities own the shift that they create, supported by our services, infrastructure and assets where appropriate.
Through 8 years of hard work we are starting to see a culture shift whereby regular sport and physical activity is not just normal, but it is seen as central to good health and wellbeing, which in turn is creating a community to be proud of.