National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education

• Raising standards

• Raising profile

• Building support

Welcome to the website of the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRC). This is the only website dedicated to providing information, advice and resources to supplementary schools across England.

What’s new 

• On Tuesday 9 June, Bright Education Centre (Somali supplementary school in Lambeth) was named the Third sector/community organisation of the year at the London Education Partnership (LEPA) awards ceremony which was organised by the Institute of Education. The judging panel was chaired by Sir Mike Tomlinson who was hugely impressed with the presentation made by the head of school, Issa Issa, and a handful of his students who also attend Lambeth mainstream schools which helped to secure the award.

  The award ceremony took place in the beautiful Painted Hall, at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London.

  Over the next few days photos of the awards ceremony will be available at www.lepawards.org.uk.
  

• Our Languages Regional Events in June (Word, 319 KB). These events are for Teachers of Community Languages and celebrate the outcomes of the Our Languages project.
   
• Read our Summer bulletin (PDF file, 554 KB) Inside this issue you will find articles on: Safeguarding children; Learning in parallel (dual-language books); Creating a fundraising strategy from scratch; Quality in Study Support Scheme; Connecting communities celebrated; Quality framework developments, plus lots more.
   
• Summer training programme 2009
  This summer term the NRC is delivering eleven regional courses; in London, Loughborough, Leicester and Stoke-on-Trent. These include amongst others; Starting a supplementary school, Funding your school, Effective lesson planning, Effective classroom management, Introduction to the British education system, Understanding employment status, Child protection, plus others.
  
  For more details on the courses and workshops available, please download our Summer training programme booklet (PDF 340 KB). Remember that these courses are free of charge to NRC members. So if you are not already a member, then join us today. Its also free to join.
  
    
   
   
• Click here to read testimonials from NRC members on the benefits of the free membership

The NRC has developed out of the Resource Unit for supplementary and mother tongue schools, with generous funding from the DfES (now DCSF) and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

You’ll find details here of our campaigns as well as our work on training, on quality and on fundraising. You can find out more about our project work, and about the local authorities that are doing good work for supplementary education.

You’ll also find details of some of the areas and issues we need your help with, as well as easy ways of getting in touch with us.

We have just developed a series of good practice guides that explain the extraordinary diversity of the supplementary schools sector.

We hope you find the website helpful and easy to use, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Our new London address and contact number

We have recently moved our office to Vauxhall:

ContinYou Offices, 31-33 Bondway, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1SJ
Tel: 020 7587 5080

Help us become better

We would value your feedback about how useful you find our website. If you have any suggestions about how we can improve it or about anything you would like to see on the website, please let us know by emailing: nrcfeedback@continyou.org.uk.