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Annual Report to Parents ‘School years really matter and shape young people’s lives forever. Combining. Combining ‘School‘School‘School years years‘School reallyyears really years matterreally matter really matter and and matter shape andshape shape andyoung young shape young people’s people’s young people’s lives people’slives forever lives forever livesforever. Combining. Combining forever. Combining the talents of our sta and students we are creating schools with real soul. thethe talents talentsthe talentsthe of of our talents our ofsta staour of and sta ourand students sta andstudents studentsand we students we are arewe creating creatingare we creating are schools creatingschools schools with with schools real with real soul. with realsoul. soul.real soul. Schools that support, inspire and enthuse their young people to achieve SchoolsSchoolsSchools that thatSchools support, that support, support,that inspire support,inspire inspire and and inspire enthuse andenthuse enthuseand their enthusetheir young their young their young people people young people to to achievepeople achieve to achieve to achieve beyond the expected.’ beyondbeyondbeyond the thebeyond expected.’ expected.’the expected.’ the expected.’ DavidDavid Horn, Horn, CEO CEOBeckfoot Beckfoot Trust Trust DavidDavid Horn,David Horn, CEO Horn, CEO Beckfoot Beckfoot CEO Beckfoot Trust Trust Trust www.beckfoottrust.org Annual Beckfoot BeckfootBeckfoot Beckfoot BeckfootBeckfootBeckfootBeckfootBeckfoot Beckfoot BeckfootBeckfootBeckfoot Beckfoot OakbanOakbankOakbankOakbank k BeckfootUpper HeatoUppern Upper Heaton Heaton n ThorntoThorntoThornton Thornton Oakbann n k Report to Upper HeatoUppern Heato Thornton Beckfoot BeckfootBeckfoot Beckfoot BeckfooBeckfoot t Beckfoot Beckfoot AllerBetonckfoot Beckfoot Heaton HeaPrimaryton School and Nursery AllerPrimaryton School and NurserHey aton Allerton HeatPrimaryon School and Nursery AllerPrimaryton School and Nursery Primary School and Nursery AlPrimaryler SchooltonPrimary and Nurser Schooly and Nursery HeatonPrimary School and Nursery Parents 2019 Primary School and Nursery Primary School and Nursery Dear Parents and Guardians, School Type of School When they joined the Trust Ofsted rating since joining the Trust I’d like to start by welcoming new families to Beckfoot School Secondary 2013 Outstanding (2014) Beckfoot Trust. I hope that you feel excited to have secured a place for your child within one of our Hazelbeck Special Special 2013 Outstanding (2015/2019) schools. The purpose of the report is to update you Beckfoot Upper Heaton Secondary 2015 Good (2018) on the progress of the Trust. Beckfoot Allerton Primary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) We have ten schools in our Trust. All are located in the Bradford area and serve their local community. Beckfoot Heaton Primary 2016 Good (2019) Our aim is to provide great schools for our pupils to Beckfoot Oakbank Secondary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) grow up and learn in. All of our schools are improving, some rapidly, as a Beckfoot Thornton Secondary 2016 Requires Improvement (2019) result of working together as one team of schools. Beckfoot Phoenix Special 2017 Not yet Inspected The intention is that every Beckfoot Trust school will achieve an Ofsted judgement of good or better. Beckfoot Priestthorpe Primary 2017 Not yet Inspected You can see on the right where we have got to. Beckfoot Nessfield Primary 2018 Not yet Inspected Some of our highlights: > By the age of sixteen, 55% of our young people > Sports Day was fantastic with Year 6 and Year • A similar theme has been evident within our Trust achieved a GCSE at Level 4 or above in both 7 children from all of our schools competing. Conferences for our staff. Out of the Conference • Very positive Ofsted judgements for those of our English and Maths compared to 48% in 2016. Winners included children from all our schools. this year we have created a new vision for our Trust schools that have been inspected since joining the It was a particular joy to see children from our ‘Creating Remarkable Schools’. You can find it on our Trust. Two are now outstanding schools, others have > At eighteen the average A level grade in our special schools competing against others from our website at http://www.beckfoottrust.org/?p=62808. progressed to being good, whilst others still requiring schools was a C grade. Our newly established Trust mainstream schools and winning! Overall Beckfoot improvement are clearly improving at pace. 6th Form based at Beckfoot, Beckfoot Oakbank Priestthorpe and Beckfoot schools took the Finally, this year we are going to explore in detail how we and Beckfoot Thornton will raise standards further. can do more to engage with you as families. We know • In terms of results this year: honours this year. that a child has the best chance of succeeding in school if • We have established annual or bi-annual Trust-wide > At the age of five, 72% of our children achieved a • We really believe in empowering our pupils. We want they know their family and school are working together events linked to sports, arts and debating. ‘good level of development’, up from 68% in 2016. them to have a view about the world they live in. We as their support team. To start us off it would be really This says a great deal about what our schools are > Well done Beckfoot Allerton for winning the held our first ever Trust-wide student conference in helpful to get some feedback from you on what you feel doing in nursery and reception years. These children Trust Debating competition this year. They were February 2019 which was brilliant. Student leaders we are doing well, and how we can get better. The link to are well placed to do well at primary school. amazing. All of our schools are developing more challenged us to make sure our schools are fit for the Survey is below. I promise it won’t take more than ten and more learning opportunities for children to talk children growing up in the 21st century. The world is minutes of your time! > By the age of eleven, 50% of our children achieved about ideas. Talk matters! rapidly changing, the pressures on young people are the expected standard in reading, writing and more complex and of course the world of work is very Parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ maths compared to only 34% in 2016. This > We love the Sports and Arts. Last year we had our different. We need to make sure our schools move BeckfootTrustfamilysurvey prepares them well for secondary school. first ever Trust Arts Festival where children from all with the times, keep our children safe, develop them David Horn, our schools showed their talents in dance, drama, as people, make sure they have ambition and prepare CEO Beckfoot Trust art and music. It was great. them for a great future. Beckfoot Trust, Wagon Lane, Bingley BD16 1EE T: 01274 771444 E: [email protected].
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