Community Service
Shrewsbury School in Partnership with Woodfield Infants
Shrewsbury School and Woodfield Infants’ School have recently formed an alliance that offers the students from both establishments a fantastic opportunity.
Sixth formers from Shrewsbury, under the supervision of their teachers, have devised a scheme to offer Music and Science clubs to all Year Two pupils from Woodfield School. Fifteen seven year olds come to Shrewsbury after school every Thursday afternoon and spend an hour in either the Maidment Building 
(Shrewsbury School’s Music Facility) or in the Biology Laboratories. The children are absolutely loving the opportunity to experiment and learn in a new environment, whilst the sixth formers gain invaluable experience planning and delivering a course of “lessons”. A minibus, jointly funded by the two schools, brings the children to Shrewsbury School and they are collected after their clubs by their parents.
As part of the same scheme, Woodfield School welcome four sixth form students from Shrewsbury School into their classrooms every Thursday afternoon. These students act as classroom assistants in the school, helping with reading, art, PE and even filmmaking! Whilst this gives extra pairs of hands at Woodfield, it also offers invaluable experience for the sixth formers, some of whom have ambitions to become teachers themselves.
Mr Dunkerley, Headmistress of Woodfield, has been extremely positive about the scheme, which she and her staff have worked hard to introduce. This truly is a partnership that benefits all involved.
Kristina Leslie
kl@shrewsbury.org.uk
October 2009
