St Mary’s C of E Primary Academy in Hunslet is celebrating after their most recent Ofsted inspection graded them as improved in all areas, with three areas now judged as ‘Good’. The school, which joined the Collaborative Learning Trust in 2020, was one of the first schools in the country to be inspected under the new Ofsted inspection regime introduced this September.
Trustees, Governors and Senior Leaders from across the Trust met in July for our annual Strategy Event.
As school broke up for the summer and families headed off for their summer break, kind-hearted staff at the Collaborative Learning Trust responded to an appeal from their CEO, Janet Sheriff, for donations to a very special cause in Tanzania.
Over 100 students and staff from the schools in the Collaborative Learning Trust came together to celebrate the launch of the Trust’s Equality and Diversity Charter with a rousing concert. As a massed Choir, Collaborative Voices, they ended the concert singing “Together we can change the world” and meant every word.
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The school community at Trinity All Saints Church of England Primary School is celebrating after their recent SIAMS inspection found that the school really is a welcoming and supportive community, with inspectors recognising the positive impact of membership of the Collaborative Learning Trust.
On 14th March we held our latest CLT trust twilight ‘Reflecting through a SEND lens’ . The event was a huge success. Staff across all CLT schools shared positive feedback about the impact this important training would have in their classrooms.
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Ideas flew when our Headteachers and education specialists from across the Trust came together for an away day, to plan the development of their work across the Trust
Two of the Trust primary schools took advantage of the diversity of our Trust to bring students together from two very different communities on an exciting school trip.
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.
