Current partnerships
Take a look at our current projects with our much valued partners:
With funding from the Heritage Lottery fund, Cohere Arts developed a project across all our schools called “Unsung Heroes”.
Children in each school first visited local libraries in Lowestoft and The Hold in Ipswich to research the people from the past who had lived in the area around their school, and who had enriched their community in their time.
When they had chosen their “unsung hero” and discovered more about their story, the children worked with Cohere’s songwriters to create a new school song featuring their character from the past.
Each school has created a choir that has learnt their song to lead their peers in celebrating their unsung hero!
Read more here
We are very pleased to be working with 4YP on their three-year youth social prescribing pilot project funded by Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils. 4YP have embedded a Youth Link Worker in Holbrook Academy. As part of a broad remit, they will be exploring what more can be done to support the transition of children from primary school to secondary school. As part of a wider exploration of partnership working between 4YP and ASSET Education, Shotley Community Primary School and Stutton CofE Primary School have been selected as the focus primary schools.
Read more here
ASSET are very proud to be founding partners in the Ipswich Social Mobility Alliance and taking a lead in their 25 year strategy for improving outcomes for children and young people. ISMA is a legacy partnership formed out of the five-year Ipswich Opportunity Area (IOA) programme.
You can read more about this strategy and how our schools and children have been involved here.
ASSET are very proud to be an industrial partner to Suffolk New College, providing opportunities for work experience and careers information to their students.
Since 2022 we have worked with SNC’s media department, co-delivering some fantastic partnership programmes that we are very grateful for.
Read more here, and listen to some of our "Listening Project" podcasts and videos.
We have partnered with West Suffolk College to offer families, community and staff adult education and training opportunities.
WSC offer a range of online taster and level 2 courses in a range of topics from mental and physical health, to supporting special needs, admin and customer service and counselling skills.
You can read more, and find links to courses here
We are in our fourth year of partnership with ImpactEd. With their support we have conducted annual research into the wellbeing of our children, enabling us to see what works to support children’s wellbeing, and to benchmark the wellbeing of our children against children in schools nationally. Across our family of schools we can see where wellbeing is higher, and share a school’s learning about what works effectively, and also target interventions skillfully where we see wellbeing is less good. This year ImpactEd are helping us to look at wellbeing as a driver for attendance, as well as other factors that influence children’s propensity to attend school.
Read what we have learned here
We started to work with Vertas on HAF when they provided catering for the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) program at very short notice during Easter 2023. Since then, Vertas has become an invaluable partner, playing a key role in ensuring that all HAF activities offer healthy and fresh food for children during the holidays.
Read more here
We are thrilled to announce a new partnership with Willis Towers Watson one of Ipswich’s biggest employers. Willis Towers Watson has generously committed their staff's time to serve as Literacy and Numeracy volunteers.
Read more here
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Let's Talk Reading to bring even more high-quality reading materials to our schools. These new books will reflect the rich diversity of our communities, including dual-language options for our EAL families. We are excited to invite families to come along and take part in interactive storytime sessions hosted in our Reception and Year One classes. Join us as we embark on this literary journey together! (Dates to be confirmed).
To discuss potential partnerships, please contact Ben Gough, Partnership and Engagement Manager on ben.gough@asseteducation.co.uk or 07752 778758.