Welcome to The Swanage School
The Swanage School will be a human scale cooperative secondary school opening in September 2013 for all 11-16s in the local area.
We hope that this site will provide a good understanding of what we want to achieve and answers some of your questions. It will be updated as more information becomes available.
Education Swanage
The school is being set up by Education Swanage, a community group of teachers, parents, governors and residents who are working voluntarily to see full secondary education returned to the town for the first time in 40 years.
The group is now set up as a limited company, Education Swanage Ltd, and will become a charity as the school opens. The Swanage School will be the first community co-operative free school in the country and an exemplar human scale free school. It is being set up with help from Human Scale Education and The Co-operative College.
For our children's future - For our town's future
As well as providing an excellent local education, another key aim of the group is to bolster the economic sustainability and social mix of Swanage. Every other town in Dorset has secondary education and we cannot find another town in the UK that has to send so many children 10 miles to the nearest school. After campaigning for several years for the local authority to provide a school, the group is taking the free school route.
We are planning a gem of a school that will set a benchmark for outstanding teaching, community engagement and local accountability.
Click here to register an interest in sending your children to The Swanage School.
We have also created a summary of our proposal which you can download here.
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