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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 rust. I hope that you feel excited to have Primary Requires Improvement (2019) Beckfoot T eport is to update you Beckfoot Allerton 2016 secured a place for your child within one of our Beckfoot Heaton Secondary 2016 Not yet Inspected schools. The purpose of the r e located in. on the progress of the Trust. Secondary 2017 Not yet Inspected We have ten schools in our Trust. All ar Special Not yet Inspected eat schools for our pupils to 2017 the Bradford area and serve their local community , as a Primary Our aim is to provide gr 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 . 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 ourequiring 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 havee now been outstanding inspected schools, since joining others the have and Beckfoot Thornton will raise standards further. minutes of your time! Trust. Two ar held our first ever Trust-wide student conference in progressed to being good, whilst others still r • We have established annual or bi-annual Trust-wide February 2019 which was brilliant. Student leaders Parent survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ 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 and more learning opportunities for children to talk Beckfoot Trust, Wagon Lane, BD16 1EE This says a great deal about what our schools are with the times, keep our children safe, develop them 01274 771444 E: [email protected] 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.