Welcome to our curriculum newsletter!

 

NEWS THIS WEEK AT CO-OP BRIERLEY! 🚀✨

It’s been an incredible week at Co-op Brierley, packed with exciting opportunities, hands-on experiences, and inspiring visitors! Our students have engaged in a variety of activities, developing key skills, exploring career pathways, and having plenty of fun along the way. Here’s a closer look at what’s been happening:

Out and About this week: Photos from Catch trip, along with our fir Brierley Farm building- The Guinea Grotto! Our Formal Learners are applying for jobs across school, with some already showing a keen interest in being ‘Animal Well being Officers’. We visited our friends at Catch, who have kindly built our Guin Grotto and donated 10 guinea pigs. 

On February 6th Brierley was very proud to welcome the CEO of Co op Shirine Khoury-Haq the Co op operations board to co op Academy Brierley.

Shirine and the board had a tour of our wonderful new school, met staff and pupils and dropped into our ‘Time to Talk’ coffee meeting highlighting the importance of bringing our families together to talk to enable supportive and sharing conversations.

 

Curriculum Newsletter January 10th 2025     Welcome to our second Curriculum Newsletter which will be sent out weekly to celebrate the wonderful activities our children experience at Co-op Brierley. Each half term our Pathways

16th October 2023

Dear Parent/Carer

PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION

I am writing to let you know that we have two parent governor vacancies on the local governing body, and that we are seeking to elect two new parent governors. On behalf of the Trust, I am acting as the ‘returning officer’ in the election process. Parent governors are elected by the parents of pupils at this school to serve a four-year term of office. You may, if you wish, put yourself forward for election, using the nomination form. Parents may self-nominate, but if a parent wishes to nominate another parent, they should seek their approval before submitting the nomination. Please read the information given with this letter.  

The timetable for the election is:-

 Invitations to submit a nomination for a parent governor role issued on 16th October 2023

1. Nomination forms to be returned to me by 12.00 noon on 6th November 2023

2. Ballot papers to be sent to parents on 7th November 2023. Voting will only take place if there are more nominations than vacancies.

3. Ballot papers to be returned to me by 12.00 noon 21st November 2023. It may be possible to vote online. If this is the case, we will advise you when sending out ballot papers.

4. The votes will be counted on the 22nd November 2023 after which the result will be announced.

Governors have an important and influential role to play in the life of our school. They, along with all other governors, are elected or appointed with a single common purpose – to govern the academy in the best interest of pupils. I do hope you will be able to take this opportunity to play an active part in the school’s life by becoming a candidate in this election process and by casting your vote when the time comes. If, in the meantime, you have any queries, please let me know.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Harridge

Headteacher

Returning Officer for Parent Governor Election

More information can be found in the information pack:

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Interested? You can download the nomination form here: