Lilian Baylis joins the Citizen Schools Pathway - now just one place left for South London!

Lilian Baylis school, Lambeth, has become the latest school (and fourth from south London) to take a place on the Pathway 2009-2010: our intensive, 1-year programme to help schools build leadership, capacity and sustainability for active, community-focused citizenship education. I met with Assistant Head teacher and line manager for Humanities Karen Chamberlain to run through everything last week, after which the opportunity was passed to Gary Phillips, Head teacher, to pour over the detail, and who confirmed their participation today.

It's great Lilian Baylis are involved - they're a dynamic, small and almost family-like school with an innovative reputation (having turned a poorly performing school into a great one in a really short time), and who hold a community focus at their core. They also teach citizenship as part of shared humanities provision, which opens up exciting possibilities for the curriculum project the school will plan and implement together with the four other schools in south London.

Lilian Baylis joins an exciting mix of secondary schools and sixth form colleges embarking on the Citizen Schools Pathway, including Central Foundation, St Angelas & St Bonaventures, Little Ilford, Barking Abbey, Prendergast Ladywell Fields College, Cardinal Wiseman, Thomas Tallis and and Hackney Free & Parochial School. Each school involved becomes an automatic member of the Alliance - and so becomes part of a huge community-led movement for action, change and social justice. Bring it on!