WHAT WE DO

ANSS Ltd was founded in 2009. It is the umbrella organisation for 16 Northamptonshire member supplementary schools.

We give our schools a legal and social framework to work in and ensure that our member are DBS checked, offer training courses in Safeguarding, First-Aid and Effective Teaching. All of our members are also affiliated to the National Resource Centre of Supplementary Education (NRCSE) and will have gained the Bronze Award by the end of July in the academic year in which they joined.

Research shows that children attending a supplementary school achieve better outcomes and feel more engaged in mainstream school life.

We aim to:

• Give our member  schools a safe, legal and social framework
  
• Create a professional teaching and learning environment
  
• Enhance the ‘life chances’ of children
  

• Increase their confidence and self-esteem which may help with integration
• Teach transferrable skills to adults in the community
  
• Make minority communities stronger through education 
  

Our objectives are to:

• Sustain the operation of our member supplementary schools
• Extend services to any community who would like to open a viable supplementary school
• Provide training in First Aid, Safeguarding Effective Management and Effective Teaching
• Provide mentoring for new schools 
• Provide monitoring for all schools

• Provide accreditation by introducing the NRCSE framework 
• Work with the schools to provide collaborative community events 
  
• Collect data from all the schools including impact data
  
• Work closely with mainstream schools, share training events
  
• Function as a link between mainstream schools and supplementary schools 
  
• Work with community organisations