Staff from across the Trust gathered to work together to discuss the beginnings of an Equality and Diversity Charter for our Trust. The twilight event was attended by more than 100 staff from across our schools and the central team, with teaching, associate and administrative staff joining together to bring their opinions to the process.
The Collaborative Learning Trust is celebrating as two new schools have joined the Trust. Ashfield Primary School from Otley and Trinity All Saints C of E VA Primary School in Bingley have joined the Trust in the last two months, taking the number of schools in the Trust to seven.
A Leeds Primary School once rated as inadequate by OFSTED is celebrating their journey with the Collaborative Learning Trust, after their recent SIAMS report labelled the school as Good. The Statutory Inspection of Anglican and Methodist Schools (SIAMS) framework asks “How effective is the school’s distinctive Christian vision, established and promoted by leadership at all levels, in enabling pupils and adults to flourish?”.
As the cost of living crisis worsens, more and more schools are discovering that collaboration with other schools is crucial to their survival. The principal of economies of scale combined with strong central teams who can advise on and deliver practical solutions for their members, means that multi academy trusts are becoming more popular amongst the school community.
As the education sector sees the true benefits of the principal of economies of scale combined with strong central teams who can advise on and deliver practical solutions for their members, Multi Academy Trusts are becoming more popular and one, in particular, is seeing strong growth in Yorkshire.
