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Sixth Form Centre staff will work across more than one site, Education President Andrea Dudley Owen has said, having earlier denied that would be the case.
She was questioned in the States about her committee’s plans to move the Sixth Form Centre to La Mare de Carteret for a year from September 2025.
Initially she said that no teachers would have to work in more than one location as a result of the move, brought about in response to Education, Sport & Culture dropping RG Falla as the contractor to develop a post-16 campus at Les Ozouets.
Deputy Dudley Owen later apologised to the Assembly for giving a misleading response, saying she had misunderstood the question from Deputy Gavin St Pier.
Pictured: Deputy Gavin St Pier.
"During the transitional phase when the new model is in its infancy we will keep staff movements within each week of term time to the minimum, but a small group of staff who will work at the Sixth Form Centre, wherever it is, will also work at the 11 to 16 school," said Deputy Dudley Owen.
"Precisely who those staff will be and what their timetable will look like are details that will be worked up over time and of course some of this will depend on student subject choices so will have to be adjusted dynamically from one cohort to the next.
"In the fullness of time there will be greater options for cross-phase working, we want the 11-18 partnership model to be more embedded before we move to this type of agile working which provides staff who want it with the option of a broader teaching experience."
Pictured: The Sixth Form Centre is currently located at Les Varendes.
Deputy Dudley Owen said she had misunderstood the original question, thinking Deputy St Pier was asking about whether the move would be in a phased approach, meaning Sixth Form teaching would be in two locations.
It was helpful to consider the complexity, she said.
Officers told her, for example, one secondary school delivers approximately 1,000 lessons a week. There would be 55 teachers matched to these lessons with demands that changed year on year.
It was a highly complex subject and the officers and school leaders should be trusted to manage the transition, she said.
Deputy Dudley Owen has said that contracting with a new company for the Sixth Form Campus might impact both timescales and costs of the project.
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