Joining Our Trust – 13/7/20 Joining Team Wessex

This is about the children This is about getting the best out of our staff, for the sake of our children Who are We?

An exceptional group of 13 schools, serving children aged 2-19, who believe in providing outstanding learning opportunities and creating centres of educational excellence that meet the needs of all our children

• Kings of Wessex • East Brent First School • Fairlands Middle School • Lympsham First School • Hugh Sexey Middle School • Mark First School • First School • First School • Brent Knoll Primary School • Weare First School • Cheddar First School • First School • Draycott & Rodney Stoke First School Why Join the ? Why Join Team Wessex

• We are already seeing great benefits of WLT joined up work – these will have greater depth and breadth if Nailsea are also involved • This potential partnership brings opportunities for all – WLT looks forward to sharing your expertise and the richness you will bring to the Trust • It is NOT a takeover • You will become ‘co-owners’ in your Trust – valued stakeholders • No need to feel threatened • Local Authority disappearing before our eyes: schools left in isolation, a chance to recreate a ‘super LA’ fit for purpose • Let us create our own solutions for the – bespoke, timely and prompt Our Vision

• Schools working together in an inclusive way, regardless of phase, to ensure all classrooms are nurturing and Trust schools have a positive ethos

• Inclusive communities, supporting all our schools and young people with reading, literacy, business advocacy and enterprise

• Quality of Education: Staff are nurtured, working in a collegiate fashion, promoting ‘bottom up’ innovation, intrinsic motivation and a strong sense of purpose and self.

• Professional learning that nurtures Future Leaders

• Professional learning and support for Governance linked to accountability, challenge and clarity on educational vision.

• Professional Learning and support for Headteachers and Executive Headteachers Our Vision

Personal Teaching, Learning Development & & Assessment Welfare

Business Support, Leadership & Staff Central Services, Development Communications Centre of Excellence Governance, Curriculum Accountability & Structures, Quality Assurance Systems and Data Systems

Trust School Improvement Team Our Vision

Deliver outstanding Deliver outstanding personal outcomes academic outcomes through character, welfare through effective teaching support and community & learning engagement

Be an efficient & cost Provide excellent effective organisation that opportunities for people to provides professional develop their skills & support & functionality leadership at all levels Centre of Excellence

Develop strong Create a symbiotic 2-19 governance, curriculum & assessment accountability& quality system that expedites assurance systems success for all learners

Create a Trust Improvement Team and develop local, national & international partnerships & strategic alliances Questions Q&A • Will you have to change your name, school hours or logo? NO • Will the school uniform change? NO • Will the character and culture of your school change? NO • Will you be forced to teach in a certain way? NO • Will everything be controlled by the Trust? NO • Will the school be merged with another or closed? NO • Will you have to lose your governing body? NO “Wessex is a friendly and inclusive trust where there is an ethos of caring and sharing and respect for the individual”

The Wessex Learning Trust Station Road, Cheddar, , BS27 3AQ A charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England (Company Number 7348580) [email protected] - 01934 745363