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Hazelbeck Special Secondary 2016 Good (2019) Dear Parents and Guardians, Primary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) I’d like to start by welcoming new families to Beckfoot Trust. I hope that you feel excited to have Beckfoot Allerton Primary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) secured a place for your child within one of our Secondary Not yet Inspected schools. The purpose of the report is to update you Beckfoot Heaton 2016 on the progress of the Trust. Secondary 2017 Not yet Inspected

We have ten schools in our Trust. All are located in Beckfoot Thornton Special 2017 Not yet Inspected the area and serve their local community. Primary Our aim is to provide great schools for our pupils to Beckfoot Phoenix 2018 • A similar theme has been evident within our Trust grow up and learn in. Conferences for our staff. Out of the Conference Beckfoot Priestthorpe Primary All of our schools are improving, some rapidly, as a this year we have created a new vision for our Trust Beckfoot Nessfield ‘Creating Remarkable Schools’. You can find it on our result of working together as one team of schools. > Sports Day was fantastic with Year 6 and Year website at http://www.beckfoottrust.org/?p=62808. The intention is that every Beckfoot Trust school 7 children from all of our schools competing. will achieve an Ofsted judgement of good or better. Winners included children from all our schools. Finally, this year we are going to explore in detail how we You can see on the right where we have got to. It was a particular joy to see children from our can do more to engage with you as families. We know > By the age of sixteen, 55% of our young people special schools competing against others from our that a child has the best chance of succeeding in school if achieved a GCSE at Level 4 or above in both mainstream schools and winning! Overall Beckfoot English and Maths compared to 48% in 2016. they know their family and school are working together Priestthorpe and Beckfoot schools took the as their support team. To start us off it would be really At eighteen the average A level grade in our honours this year. Some of our highlights: > helpful to get some feedback from you on what you feel schools was a C grade. Our newly established Trust we are doing well, and how we can get better. The link to We really believe in empowering our pupils. We want • Very positive Ofsted judgements for those of our 6th Form based at Beckfoot, Beckfoot Oakbank • the Survey is below. I promise it won’t take more than ten them to have a view about the world they live in. We schools that have been inspected since joining the and Beckfoot Thornton will raise standards further. minutes of your time! Trust. Two are now outstanding schools, others have held our first ever Trust-wide student conference in https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ progressed to being good, whilst others still requiring • We have established annual or bi-annual Trust-wide February 2019 which was brilliant. Student leaders Parent survey: improvement are clearly improving at pace. events linked to sports, arts and debating. challenged us to make sure our schools are fit for BeckfootTrustfamilysurvey children growing up in the 21st century. The world is

• In terms of results this year: > Well done Beckfoot Allerton for winning the rapidly changing, the pressures on young people are David Horn, Trust Debating competition this year. They were CEO Beckfoot Trust At the age of five, 72% of our children achieved a more complex and of course the world of work is very > amazing. All of our schools are developing more ‘good level of development’, up from 68% in 2016. different. We need to make sure our schools move [email protected] and more learning opportunities for children to talk Beckfoot Trust, WagonE: Lane, BD16 1EE This says a great deal about what our schools are with the times, keep our children safe, develop them 01274 771444 about ideas. Talk matters! T: doing in nursery and reception years. These children as people, make sure they have ambition and prepare are well placed to do well at primary school. > We love the Sports and Arts. Last year we had our them for a great future. first ever Trust Arts Festival where children from all By the age of eleven, 50% of our children achieved > our schools showed their talents in dance, drama, the expected standard in reading, writing and art and music. It was great. maths compared to only 34% in 2016. This prepares them well for secondary school. equipment, creating jingles, deciding what to broadcast and of course performing on the radio themselves. Beckfoot Thornton 2019-20 Science, Technology, Please get in touch if you would like to find Engineering & Maths Project (STEM), First out more about our Beckfoot Thornton Give, NYBEP careers interviews, Barclays Life Annual Report: School community, we’d be delighted to school and with Beckfoot Trust Sixth form. Skills, Talk the Talk Oracy workshops, Junior hear from you. Engineering Engagement Project (JEEP)The To complement our challenging and Transformation Trust, Oxford University and engaging curriculum students have had the Jeremy Richardson We are very proud of our school community at The Brilliant Club. opportunity to partake in a wide range of Headteacher Beckfoot Thornton School. Our students enjoy personal development opportunities enjoying coming to school. Students have enjoyed participating in a Beckfoot Thornton School. Leaventhorpe an abundance of exciting trips including range of opportunities to support charities Lane, Thornton, Bradford BD13 3BH It is calm and friendly and students feel safe visiting Old Trafford, Wembley Arena, including raising money through bake sales and cared for in an environment where Worcester College, York Railway Museum, for First Give and Children in Need and T: 01274 881082 they can learn. They know that our school St George’s Hall, Bradford Winter Games by collecting food items for the Bradford E: [email protected] is improving and because of this they are at Hanson , Cartwright Hall, Leeds Metropolitan Food Bank. achieving more. City College, Buckden House, Leeds Trinity In May, we launched our Beckfoot Thornton www.beckfootthornton.org University, York Railway Museum, The Rose Our students are supported whatever their Radio station. Students have really taken Theatre, York, Duke of Edinburgh expeditions need maybe with focused activities that help ownership, learning how to operate the to Blackhills. to improve pupils’ understanding of mental health issues and the world of work. Staff A diverse range of providers have come care about our students and are motivated to work with students in school, including and respected. We have a good sixth form with dedicated students that aspire to make Beckfoot the most of the opportunities on offer in Thornton