Lefèvre Trust Grant application form

Guidance to applicants Before completing this form, please read the Lefèvre Trust Application guidance notes very

carefully as well as the top tips below.

Completed applications must be signed by heads of both partner schools and sent by email to lefevre.trust@britishcouncil.org

For further information about school linking and partnership work including project and activity ideas, case studies of successful projects, as well as upcoming application dates please refer to the dedicated Lefèvre page on Schools Online where you will find all the related documents in English and in French

If you have any questions or would like to discuss your partnership ideas, please contact a Lefèvre ambassador at lefevre.trust@britishcouncil.org. French schools can seek assistance from their délégué académique aux relations internationales (DAREIC) http://eduscol.education.fr/cid45734/adresses-des-dareic.html

Overview – résumé of key information for the bi-national selection panel

UK school:      

Local authority/county:      

French school:      

Académie:      

Information about the visitsUK School French School

Dates of visits:            

Number of young people            

Age Range            

Number of educators            

Summary of the project (key objectives, project theme and outcomes) in 3-4 sentences:

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Top tips for filling in the form

Please read the tips below in addition to the detailed Application guidance notes which describe Lefèvre objectives and selection criteria.

Key consideration – Why work with a French/UK school? What makes your project relevant specifically in an Anglo-French context? The bi-lateral nature of the Lefèvre programme should be reflected in your project and chosen theme(s).

Activities and visit plans must:

be joint and bilateral (UK-France) as non-collaborative activities and visits cannot be funded have the support of the heads of both schools and be relevant to the school plan be linked to the curriculum in both countries and actively involve young people in meaningful

thematic dialogue or activity, whicho includes an element of interactive discussion, debate, joint reflection…o has a clear UK-France dimension and added value

show true interaction between the young people of the UK and France have a strong wider impact on supporting improved teaching practice in both schools contribute to the overall attainment of pupils directly as well as indirectly involved in the project demonstrate a commitment to future contact and collaboration between partner schools.

Applications must be filled in as a joint endeavour by both schools. One form only is required for submission (in English or in French). Ideally one project lead will submit the application on behalf of the partnership but it is essential that both head teachers from UK and French schools signs the application form giving full support to the collaborative project between the partner schools.French schools must inform their DAREIC of their application.

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Part 1: Partnership details and partnership context

UK School

UK school

Name of UK school (or college, etc):      

Local Authority:Address:

     Type of school:      

Government ref number:      

Partnership co-ordinator:      

Position in organisation:      

Telephone:       e-mail:      

Bursar name:      

Telephone:       e-mail:      

Head teacher name:       e-mail:

Current International School Award status:      

List any funding you have received in the last three years to support international work:

Year Programme e.g. Connecting Classrooms, Comenius Erasmus +, Global School Partnerships

Partner school(s)

                 

French School

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French school

Name of French school (or college, etc):

     

Académie:Address:

     Type of school:      

Partnership co-ordinator:      

Position in organisation:      

Telephone:      

Bursar name:       e-mail:      

Telephone:      

Head teacher name:

      e-mail:      

List any funding you have received in the last three years to support international work:

Year Programme e.g. Connecting Classrooms, Comenius/Erasmus+, Global School Partnerships

Partner school(s)

                 

Partnership context Describe when and how your partnership started as well as the nature of the schools in your partnership, e.g. rural/urban, local context, number of pupils, etc. (Approx. 300-400 words).

Part 2: Objectives of your partnership project

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Your partnership project and application for funding will be assessed against 3 main objectives:

1. How your project underpins chosen areas of the curriculum in your schools/countries (the panel will be looking for evidence of the specific way in which your project is linked to curriculum objectives, whether it has cross-curricular resonance, whether it is strategically linked to the school plan and in what way)

2. How your project enhances pupil attainment and improves teaching practice (the panel will be looking for a clear demonstration of how each of the different activities proposed in the project are designed to enhance pupil’s learning and also support improved subject teaching and cross-subject teaching)

3. How you and your partner school will continue to collaborate and sustain project results into the future (the panel will be looking to see evidence of mechanisms put in place to support collaborative working as well as articulated measures to ensure sustainability of the partnership after the funding year)

You will find detailed information on these objectives in the Application guidance notes

Objective 1: Is your project embedded in the curriculum?

What areas of the curriculum or school plan does your partnership aim to support? Please explain the strategic reasons for carrying out your collaborative project.

Tips: the panel will be looking to see evidence of the ways in which your project is strategically relevant to both partner schools. Please specify the areas of the curriculum your project will support and why this is important for you both. Do you and your partner school want to achieve exactly the same thing or have you agreed to help each other to achieve different things?     

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Objective 2: How will your project enhance pupil’s attainment and support improved teaching practice? How will pupil’s learning be enhanced? How will you demonstrate evidence of improvement? What will you and teachers from your partner schools learn from each other? What will you do together? Please specify expected results in relation to the different areas of the curriculum involved.

Tips: the panel will be looking to see evidence of what aspects of pupil’s learning you and your partner school have chosen to enhance and how this will be achieved through the different activities and visit plans. You can include statistical data, reports or extracts from your school plan to support the specific aims of your project

How will the project enhance pupil attainment? :

In what ways will the project improve teaching practice? :

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Objective 3: How you and your partner school will continue to collaborate and sustain project results into the future

Describe what mechanisms you and your partner school have in place to ensure a sustainable collaboration? What project results do you intend to continue and develop into the future? What are your planned actions?

Tips: the panel will be looking to see evidence that partner schools have a strong relationship. Think about demonstrating the strength of teacher involvement from across the curriculum. Evidence of a communication plan, strategies to overcome unexpected difficulties, to seize opportunities and navigate constraints will be important to demonstrate that both schools are committed to the project now and in the future.     

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Part 3: Activity planWhen writing your activity plan please demonstrate how each of the different activities proposed in the project are designed to improve pupil’s learning and also support improved subject teaching and cross-subject teaching.In a good activity plan each activity will be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART). For advice on how to fill out your activity plan and visit plan, please refer to the Lefèvre Application guidance notes

Please list activities chronologically indicating pre-visit activities and post-visit activities.NB. There is a separate section to detail your visit plan

Please detail the collaborative activities that you and your partner school have planned. All activities must relate clearly to your overall project objectives and underpin the curriculum.

UK SCHOOL activity and purpose/relevance to the curriculum and the project

FRENCH SCHOOL activity and purpose/relevance to the curriculum and the project

Number of participants/dates

What will you be doing in the UK School and how will you connect with your French partner school?

What will you be doing in the French school and how will you connect with your UK partner school?

Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Pre-visit activity 1 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Pre-visit activity 2 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Pre-visit activity 3 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Pre-visit activity 4

Etc

Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Post-visit activity 1 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Post-visit activity 2 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

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Please detail the collaborative activities that you and your partner school have planned. All activities must relate clearly to your overall project objectives and underpin the curriculum.

UK SCHOOL activity and purpose/relevance to the curriculum and the project

FRENCH SCHOOL activity and purpose/relevance to the curriculum and the project

Number of participants/dates

Post-visit activity 3 Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Post-visit activity 4

Etc.

Young people:Age range:Educators:Month:

Part 4: Visit plansOrganising reciprocal visits is challenging and demanding. You will need to give sufficient time to discussing and planning the visits with your partner school. In addition to content, be careful to discuss and agree date options and accommodation options well in advance. Visits to France/the UK must include at least four full days spent with your partner excluding travel. Please ensure that plans are carefully divided between time that pupils and teachers spend together in the partner school and time spent on collaborative activities outside school. All visits must relate to your project work. Lefèvre grant funding cannot be used to visit random tourist attractions. Visits to places of interest or local monuments that are perfectly in line with your project are of course acceptable. The journey time to visit your partner school is not part of the four days.

You will find very useful practical guidance for organising the logistics of visits in the School Exchange starter pack

UK school

Please provide an outline of the UK school’s proposed visit to France. (Add extra lines for additional working days below if necessary.)

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Dates of proposed visit to France:      

Location of visit:      

Number of young people participating:       Age range (11-18 years old):

     

Number of educators participating:      

Visit day

Activities planned during the visit and who will be involved from each school. (The activity must be relevant to the curriculum and the project):

Relevance to the curriculum and the project:

TravelDay 1            

Day 2      

Day 3      

Day 4      

Travel

French school

Please provide an outline of the French school’s proposed visit to the UK. (Add extra lines for additional working days below if necessary.) Dates of proposed visit to the UK:      

Location of visit:      

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Number of young people participating:       Age range (11-18 years old):

     

Number of educators participating:      

Activities planned during the visit and who will be involved. (The activities must be relevant to the curriculum and the project):

Relevance to the curriculum and the project:

TravelDay 1            

Day 2            

Day 3            

Day 4            

Travel

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Part 5: Budget

Provide estimates against each category below as to how you will spend your grant. Eligible costs are indicated below. Please note that the maximum grant funded under Lefèvre is up to max £5000 per school. In some cases it is possible for partner schools to find additional sources of funding to add to the Lefèvre grant eg. if they wish to increase the number of pupils or the length of the visit. This is at the discretion of partner schools.

Budget

Area of expenditure (up to max £5000 per school) Amount UK school Amount French school (€)

Pre-visit preparation      £ €Partnership visit(s) by UK school      £ €Partnership visit(s) by French school      £ €Project resources (excluding hardware)      £ €Publicity and events      £ €Communication costs      £ €Other            £ €Total:      £ €Please note any additional sources of funding (eg. local funding, families, board of governors etc.)

Part 6: Measuring the success of your project

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Your project should ideally be completed over an 18 months period. At the halfway point we will ask you to submit a one page progress report. When both visits have taken place you may then apply to receive the remaining 20% of your grant payment. You will be required to demonstrate the success of your project against the same 3 key objectives as in the initial application before this payment will be authorised.

How do you plan to monitor the impact of your partnership activities in relation to 1) embedding the curriculum 2) enhancing pupil attainment & teaching practice 3) collaboration and sustainability the partnership as a whole? Please describe how your project will collect evidence for each of the 3 objectives:

Tips : the panel will be looking for planned measures of a) pupil learning outcomes (eg. feedback forms, stories, testimonials, written work, videos, performances) and also a clear indication of planned measures for b) improved teaching practice (shared lessons, job shadowing, joint lessons, use of language assistants etc.     

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Part 7: Sign-off

Your application will not be considered complete unless both head teachers sign off on the project to endorse it.

UK school

By typing my name I confirm my endorsement of and support for the above partnership activities. I agree to adhere to the necessary contractual arrangements between my organisation and the British Council.

Name of UK’s head teacher Date

           

Additional statement of support from the UK head teacher: Our partnership and the reciprocal visits described in this application will contribute to teaching and learning in my school in the following ways:

French schoolYou can write in French. Vous pouvez écrire en français.

By typing my name I confirm my endorsement of and support for the above partnership activities. I agree to adhere to the necessary contractual arrangements between my organisation and the British Council.

Name of French school’s head teacher Date

           

Additional statement of support from the French school’s head teacher: Our partnership and the reciprocal visits described in this application will contribute to teaching and learning in my school in the following ways:

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Part 8: Data Protection

The distribution of grant funding from the Lefèvre Trust and Charles de Gaulle Trust is managed by the British Council on behalf of the trustees.

We will use the information you are providing for the purpose of assessing your grant application and securing your participation in these programmes. We may pass this information on to our offices in other countries and partner organisations in order to assess your application and to administer and evaluate the project. It will continue to be handled in accordance with UK data protection law.

We may want to use your information to send you details of other activities, services and events which you may find of interest. Please tick one of the statements below.

Yes, I would like to be sent details of relevant activities, services and events.

No, I do not want to be sent details of other activities, services and events.

Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold on you, for which we may charge a fee, and the right to ask us to correct any inaccuracies in that information.

If you want more information about this please contact your local British Council office or the Data Protection Team (dataprotection@britishcouncil.org) or see our website - http://www.britishcouncil.org/home-data-protection.htm

Please complete one form for each partnership (either French or English) and email the completed form to lefevre.trust@britishcouncil.org

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