Name of Trust: Shropshire Church of England Academies Trust
CEO: Claire Gaskin (Interim)
Chair of Trustees: Malcolm Maclean
Contact for enquiries: [email protected]
Schools already in the Trust:
- Worfield Endowed CE Primary School, Bridgnorth
- Beckbury CE Primary School, Shifnal
- St. Mary’s Bluecoat CE Primary School, Bridgnorth
- Meole Brace CE Primary School, Shrewsbury
- Christ Church CE Primary School, Cressage
- Bicton CE Primary School, Shrewsbury
- Bomere Heath CE Primary School, Shrewsbury
- St. John the Baptist CE Primary School, Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shrewsbury
This trust would consider working in partnership with Voluntary Aided and Voluntary Controlled CE schools across Lichfield Diocese or Hereford Diocese and Single Academy Trusts, along with any Shropshire LA or Telford and Wrekin LA maintained community schools who feel the vision and values of the Trust aligns with their own.
As a joint partnership between Lichfield Diocese and Hereford Diocese, we intend to focus our growth strategy on developing a number of geographical hubs across both dioceses in the following general areas: Bridgnorth, Telford, Central and North Shrewsbury.
Our Trust vision is to provide high quality, fully inclusive learning opportunities to children across the early years and primary age ranges through;
- realising potential by working together to develop everyone’s education and enabling all to flourish
- sharing our Christian values, being warm and welcoming to all, knowing our children and their families well
- a strong emphasis on meeting the pastoral needs of pupils
- promoting and delivering strong mental health and wellbeing support to all children and the MAT workforce including promoting opportunities for families, building in the unique natural beauty of Shropshire to promote positive wellbeing and opportunities to explore learning outside the classroom
- ensuring our ethos is underpinned by a strong knowledge and understanding of the impact of trauma and ensure our approach to supporting behaviour is trauma informed
- providing an ambitious and engaging curriculum within each academy
- ensuring the delivery of high-quality education to all young people across the academies through a comprehensive school improvement offer to all academies within the Trust
- empowering each CE academy within the trust to embody its distinctive Christian vision
- creating an environment in all academies where pupils and adults can truly flourish
- growing and developing the expertise and capacity of the Trust to meet the needs of children and young people with SEND who may require more specialist provision
- overseeing efficient, effective, and compliant management of the trust’s finances
- Skilled, effective and robust governance at all levels
Shropshire Church of England Academies Trust is unique in that it has been formed through a joint partnership between Hereford Diocese and Lichfield Diocese to bring together likeminded schools for the benefit of their pupils, staff and their communities.
The trust aims to allow our school leaders and staff to develop the individual character of their academies so they can best serve their local communities. The Christian distinctiveness of the Trust will unite the schools, but each school will express it uniquely according to the communities it serves. This will benefit all joining schools by providing a centralised infrastructure, along with an ambition to create a regional hub model that fosters economies of scale, shared resources, and invaluable expertise.
The Trust has a core purpose to deliver outstanding educational outcomes and children are at the heart of all we do. The Trust aims to support all of its academies to provide the best possible outcomes and the Trust’s Improvement Strategy seeks to achieve this. Central to our model of school improvement is partnership working and school-to-school support. The Trust’s improvement strategy is shaped by the concept of strong collaboration so that the skills and talents that exist within the Trust’s schools, can be of benefit to all.
In accordance with our Church Articles, a primary focus is to empower each CE academy within the trust to embody its distinctive Christian vision, creating an environment where pupils and adults can truly flourish.
Website: https://www.sceat.org.uk/
