On Friday the committee will submit proposals for the £157 million necessary to deliver the new model of secondary education. It will revolve around one college for ages 11-18  split over two sites at Les Beaucamps and St Sampson's. The Committee will request that the sum of its proposals be debated by the States during the meeting due to start on 4 September.

The St Sampson's and Les Beaucamps high school sites will be used in the new model of secondary education. 

Details released already include changes which make pastoral care a focus within schools. This will mean facilities within schools for visiting healthcare professionals to use and changes to class structures. 

The changes include the schools divided into houses which in turn are structured into smaller; 'vertical' tutor groups of around 15 students. This means there will be a mix of age groups in each tutor group with an intake of three new students per year from year 7 as three leave in year 11. These will meet daily and tutors will monitor wellbeing, social development and academic progress of students in their group. 

It's a scheme which has been successfully trialed at La Mare de Carteret High School as well as elsewhere in the UK similar to the US 'homerooms', the smaller classroom sizes feed into the initiative around student's health and wellbeing. 

Those with special educational needs will be able to work one-to-one or in small groups where this is felt to be the most appropriate environment. According to the details released, at each site there will be a base for students who have difficulties with social communication and language, including autism.

Education said the overall ambition for the schools going forward is one of ‘Opportunity and Excellence for all Students’ and package of measures to ensure that the 11-18 school does "everything possible to meet the individual needs of all students" including:

•   students working in small groups or 1:1 where this is felt to be the most appropriate environment;

•   purpose-built bases at both Colleges to support students with social and communication difficulties;

•   clear policies for a calm and safe learning environment;

•   facilities at both Colleges to allow students to meet services in mental health, youth justice, etc

•   a ‘schools within a school’ model of vertical multi-year tutor groups.

Deputy Matt Fallaize, President of the Committee for Education, Sport & Culture, said:

“As well as providing students with the best possible facilities and the widest range of subject choices, it is vital that they are well supported emotionally and understood as individuals. This is at the heart of the plans we are developing with our professional staff. We are very confident that in terms of students’ pastoral careand wellbeing the size and set up of the two new Colleges, operating as a single School, will allow us to provide every student with the very best available in some parts of the current education model. Many students will have access to better facilities and more support than they do currently.

“The new Colleges will adopt a ‘schools within a school model’. This will provide students with the curricular and extra-curricular benefits possible in a larger school without losing, and in many respects improving, pastoral support and wellbeing.”